The Simple Medical Imaging Library Interface (SMILI), pronounced ‘smilie’, is an open-source, lightweight and easy-to-use medical imaging viewer and library for all major operating systems.
The main sMILX application features for viewing n-D images, vector images, DICOMs, anonymizing, shape analysis and models/surfaces with easy drag and drop functions.
It also features a number of standard processing algorithms for smoothing, thresholding, masking etc. images and models, both with graphical user interfaces and/or via the command-line.
The applications are all built out of a uniform user-interface framework that provides a very high level (Qt) interface to powerful image processing and scientific visualisation algorithms from the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and Visualisation Toolkit (VTK). The framework allows one to build stand-alone medical imaging applications quickly and easily.
Features include:
- Image Processing.
- Surface/Model Processing.
- Surface/Model Visualisation.
- n-D Image Visualisation.
- Deformation Field Visualisation.
- DICOM and DICOM RT Support.
- Shape Modelling.
- Python Scripting.
- Polygonal Contouring.
- Animating Surfaces.
- Formats include:
- Nifti (*.nii.gz *.nii) and GIPL (*.gipl).
- Analyse (*.img *.hdr)
- Raster multimedia formats: PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PPM.
- DICOMs of various descriptions (*.ima *.dcm *.dicom). Support is done via the GDCM library.
- VTK XML Image (*.vti)
- Triangulated Surfaces or 3D Models (*.vtp *.vtk *.ply *.obj *.stl)
- Meta Images (*.mha *.mhd)
- Delimited Text or Comma Separated Value files (*.txt *.csv). This is mainly for plots.
- Medical imaging formats supported by the Insight Toolkit (ITK).
- Other formats that can be supported include (PGM, INR, DICOM RTs (Structure Sets)) with the appropriate plugins.
Website: smili-project.sourceforge.io
Support: Documentation, Mailing List
Developer: Chandra, S. S.; Dowling, J. A.; Engstrom, C.; Xia, Y.; Paproki, A.; Neubert, A.; Rivest-Hénault, D.; Salvado, O.; Crozier, S. & Fripp, J.
License: Open Source
SMILI is written in Python and C++. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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