History of 3DMed

3DMed has an even longer history than that of MITK:

Before 3DMed 2.0: 3DMed worked without MITK. It provided both the graphical user interface and the implementation of underlying algorithms.

3DMed 2.0: Algorithm implementations are separared from the user interface which forms the MITK. So, since that, 3DMed has been incharge of the interface part only, which was devoloped based on the qt3 toolkit provided by Trolltech.

3DMed 2.x: New functions are integrated into the platform taking advantage of the plugin mechanism.

3DMed 2.2.0 Open Source: We published the source code of 3DMed 2.2.0 for user to study and use.

3DMed 3.0: Based on MITK 2.x, 3DMed 3.0 was developed to support large datasets using the out-of-core mechanism.

3DMed 4.0: Together with MITK 2.3, 3DMed 4.0 was released which was refactoried with a QT4 based user interface. The source code was also open, and can be compiled within different system environments. The plugin SDK interface was also redesigned which makes the extension of functions more flexible.

Together with the development of MITK, 3DMed is currrenly extending its functions based on the new plugin interface.

3DMed 4.2

This is our new version of 3DMed.

In this version, we added in two CUDA Based visualization plugins:

CUDA Augmented Isosurface Rendering: A CUDA Based Isosurface Rendering plugin with augmented color.

CUDA Isosurface Rendering For Big Data: A CUDA Based Isosurface Rendering plugin for big datasets. Augmented color is also supported.

And two segmentation plugins:

GraphCut Segmentation: A volume segmentation plugin based on the Graph-cut algorithm

Watershed Panel: A volume segmentation plugin based on the Watershed algorithm

3DMed 4.1

This is our new version of 3DMed based on the QT4 GUI lib.

In the last version, 3DMed 4.0, there were still a lot of QT3 based plug-ins, which only works in Win32 platform. However, in this version, we developed a set QT4 based plug-ins which are fully compatible with the new architecture of 3DMed 4.x to substitute those old plug-ins so that the whole system can be ported to different platforms.

For the first time, we provided both the installation package for Win32 as well as for Win64 which has a better support for moderately large datasets. And since the source code is open, it is free for the users to compile and use the system in other environments such as Red Hat Linux.

3DMed 4.0

This is our new version of 3DMed based on the QT4 GUI lib. Besides the new GUI, the new version has the following new features:

1. Supports the multi-child-window visualization style which allows the user to dynamically open up multiple child windows for different visualizations styles.

2. A new plug-in interface is designed while keeping the compatibility of the old style plug-in interface (old plugins need to be recompiled when porting to the new platform). Comparing to the old one, the new plug-interface has the following advantages:
        a) The plug-in developer can extend the data types in their plug-in projects.
        b) Supports the access of the whole data list.
        c) Plug-ins can be developed in a modeless-child-window style which allows multiple plug-ins running at the same time.

3. Support for a console style algorithm testing interface.

3DMed 3.0

This is a new version of 3DMed which supports for out-of-core processing of the medical image data. It has the ability to process and analyze massive data. 3DMed 3.x is developed based on MITK 2.x, and has a flexible plug-in framework which allows the users to integrate their own plug-in to 3DMed 3.x.

Note: In order to ensure each plug-in can be used, please make sure that you have installed vcredist_x86.exe, which installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C++ on a computer that does not have Visual C++ 2005 installed.

3DMed 2.2.0

This is our new version of 3D Medical Image Processing and Analyzing System, i.e., the well known 3DMed. Now we have completely rewritten the whole system based on MITK to validate the ability of using MITK to develop real world medical applications. Moreover, 3DMed 2.x has a flexible plug-in framework and allows the users to integrate their own plug-in to 3DMed. Most importantly, now 3DMed is an Open Source Software, and you can download, compile and use it freely and make necessary changes on your own purpose.