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Table 1 Bioinformatics tools for medical image processing and analysis

From: Big data in healthcare: management, analysis and future prospects

Tools/softwares

VTK

ITK

DTI-TK

ITK-Snap

FSL

SPM

NiftyReg

NiftySeg

NifttSim

NiftRec

ANTS

GIMIAS

elastix

MIA

MITK

Camino

OsiriX

MRIcron

IMOD

Input image support

 MRI

 

x

x

 

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

  

x

x

x

x

 Ultrasound

  

x

   

x

x

x

x

 

x

x

      

 X-ray

  

x

   

x

x

x

  

x

x

      

 fMRI

    

x

x

    

x

x

x

  

x

 

x

 

 PET

  

x

  

x

     

x

x

      

 CT-Scan

     

x

   

x

 

x

x

      

 EEG

  

x

  

x

     

x

x

      

 Mammogram

           

x

x

  

x

   

 Graphical user interface

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Functions

 Generic

x

x

  

x

x

 

x

  

x

x

x

  

x

 

x

 

 Registration

 

x

x

  

x

x

x

  

x

x

x

 

x

x

x

 

x

 Segmentation

 

x

   

x

 

x

x

x

 

x

x

x

x

x

x

  

 Visualization

x

  

x

  

x

 

x

x

 

x

x

 

x

x

x

x

x

 Reconstruction

x

 

x

x

x

x

  

x

x

x

x

x

x

    

x

 Simulation

x

 

x

x

x

   

x

x

 

x

x

x

     

 Diffusion

x

 

x

  

x

   

x

 

x

x

 

x

x

   
  1. VTK (https://vtk.org/), ITK (https://itk.org/), DTI-TK (http://dti-tk.sourceforge.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php), ITK-Snap (http://www.itksnap.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php), FSL (https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/), SPM (https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/), NiftyReg (http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftyreg), NiftySeg (http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftyseg), NifttSim (http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftysim), NiftRec (http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftyrec), ANTS (http://picsl.upenn.edu/software/ants/), GIMIAS (http://www.gimias.org/), elastix (http://elastix.isi.uu.nl/), MIA (http://mia.sourceforge.net/), MITK (http://www.mitk.org/wiki), Camino (http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/medic/camino/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage), IMOD (https://omictools.com/imod-tool), MRICron (https://omictools.com/mricron-tool), OstriX (https://omictools.com/osirix-tool)