Announce: VR-Render 0.8 released

[Johan Moreau]

We are pleased to announce the new version of the VR-Render software
(version 0.8).

VR-Render is a medical image viewer freeware. It is an interactive
system for planar and volume visualization which enables practitioners
to quickly explore and analyze 3D medical or scientific data on a
standard PC (Windows, Linux, MacosX). This software uses fast OpenGL
graphics (ATI/NVidia) and is able to load a series of images stored in
DICOM format (uncompressed and JPEG,) for medical review.
Visualization
tools include orthogonal MPR, volume rendering and multiple colormaps
(automated conventional colormap and dedicated digestive surgery
colormap). Analyzis tools include distance measurement tools and image
processing operators. For astronomical research, FITS format is
supported (only on MacOSX). These software applications are built on
top of multiple open source systems like boost (for basic system),
wxWidgets (for GUI), gdcm (for loading DICOM) and itk/vtk/vtkinria3d
(for segmentation and visualization). The new version is avalaible
on :

http://www.ircad.fr/softwares/vr-render/

We are also proud to announce the availability of a new medical
image database that contains a set of abdominal CT associated
to segmentations of various anatomical and pathological structures
carried out manually by expert clinicians. Since we plan to extend
this
database to other anatomical structures, we are extremely interested
in
any partnership that would contribute to the versatility of this
database. The database is distributed under CC - Attribution Licence -
Non
commercial - No Derivative Works. It's available on :

http://www.ircad.fr/virtual_reality/3Dircadb/3Dircadb.php

You can also download data used for the VR-Render gallery on :

http://www.ircad.fr/softwares/vr-render/WEB-3D-gallery/gallery.php

ChangeLog since 0.7 :

* [NEW] DICOM file format reader/writer
* [NEW] Support of VTK image file format (reader/writer)
* [NEW] FXZ/fwXML file format reader/writer
* [NEW] 3D Landmark manipulation tools
* [NEW] 3D mesh renderer
* [NEW] 64bits Linux support
* [NEW] Image processing operator : Rotation
* [NEW] Image processing operator : Box cropping
* [NEW] Image processing operator : SubSampling
* [NEW] Image processing operator : Windowing
* [NEW] Image processing operator : Median
* [NEW] Online documentation
* [NEW] Oblique slice with MPR
* [ENH] Ergonomics stuff (Patient selector, shortcuts...)
* [ENH] 32bits Linux support (more distribution)
* [ENH] 2D and 3D distance measurement tools
* [ENH] Color map apply on MPR
* [ENH] New color maps (CLUT/Transfer function)
* [BUG] Crash when reader file is selected
* [BUG] Histogram bad value
* [BUG] Scrollbar with MRP on OSX