New stuff: updated 3.8 beta, DSS tutorial, and Docker container

[Paul Yushkevich]

Dear ITK-SNAP users,

There is an updated ITK-SNAP 3.8.0-beta available on the download page that addresses some of the issues raised on the mailing list over the last few weeks. In addition, the Linux Qt4-based build of the beta is now available, which is needed for older OpenGL drivers and for using ITK-SNAP on remote Linux servers over ssh and X2GO.

For those of you interested in learning more about the new DSS (distributed segmentation services) functionality, there is now a tutorial that includes a guide to making your own algorithms available as DSS services. 

Lastly, ITK-SNAP has been Dockerized! You can get ITK-SNAP and the command-line tools Convert3D (our image processing Swiss Army Knife tool) and Greedy (fast linear and deformable image registration tool) with a single command:

docker run -pyushkevich/itksnap c3d

docker run -pyushkevich/itksnap greedy

For example, if you have some data (img1.nii, img2.nii) in the directory /Users/me/data, then you can run c3d on these images like this:

docker run -v /Users/me/data:/data c3d /data/img1.nii /data/img2.nii -add -o /data/sum.nii

Thanks -- and please keep posting bug reports and feedback!

Paul

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Paul A. Yushkevich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory
Department of Radiology
University of Pennsylvania