The protocerebral bridge and the fan-shaped body are shown as surface renderings ( cyan & yellow). The intensity image is displayed as a volume rendering ( gray). (c) Snapshot of the Simple Neurite Tracer application, featuring the central compartments of the adult Drosophila brain. The segmentation surface (in red) resembles the boundaries of the medulla and lobula. The segmented image is a confocal stack of an adult Drosophila brain. (b) Visualization of the output of a segmentation algorithm. Afterwards the head was rotated to show the effect. (a) An MRI image of a human head, demonstrating the volume editing capabilities: A 2D ROI was projected onto the data, and the intersected volume was filled with black. We offer the source code and convenient binary packages along with extensive documentation at.
#Java 3d visualization software#
Our framework enables biomedical image software development to be built with 3D visualization capabilities with very little effort. The ability to rely on a library that removes the low-level details enables concentrating software development efforts on the algorithm implementation parts. In particular, we provide high-level access to volume rendering, volume editing, surface extraction, and image annotation. Our framework enriches the ImageJ software libraries with methods that greatly reduce the complexity of developing image analysis tools in an interactive 3D visualization environment. Our framework is seamlessly integrated into ImageJ, a free image processing package with a vast collection of community-developed biological image analysis tools. Here we present a platform-independent framework based on Java and Java 3D for accelerated rendering of biological images.
#Java 3d visualization registration#
The reconstruction, segmentation and registration are best approached from the 3D representation of the data set. Current imaging methods such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Confocal microscopy, Electron Microscopy (EM) or Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) yield three-dimensional (3D) data sets in need of appropriate computational methods for their analysis.