releases/3.0-beta-1

  1. InVesalius 3.0 beta 1 release notes
    1. What's new in InVesalius 3.0 beta 1
    2. The InVesalius 3.0 roadmap
    3. What you can do to help
    4. Manual by user
    5. Questions/Feedback?
    6. Community Announcement

InVesalius 3.0 beta 1 release notes

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Welcome to InVesalius 3.0 Beta 1'''

This is the first in a series of preview/development releases leading up to the eventual release of InVesalius 3.0, currently scheduled to take place in early September 2010. These beta releases are primarily targeted to people who are interested in testing the InVesalius 3D medical imaging reconstruction software and helping to identify and resolve bugs prior to the final 3.0 release.

As such, this release is not intended for production use, and any such use is discouraged.

What's new in InVesalius 3.0 beta 1

InVesalius 3 has been written from zero, so its a completely new software. It supports, through a friendly user interface:

  • DICOM-support including:
    • ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
    • DICOM version 3.0 (including various encodings of JPEG -lossless and lossy-, RLE).
  • Slice-based segmentation
  • Pre-defined threshold ranges according to tissue of interest
  • Slice manual edition tools (similar to Paint Brush)
  • 3D surface creation
  • 3D surface connectivity tools
  • 3D surface exportation (including: binary STL, OBJ, VRML, !Inventor)
  • High-quality volume rendering projection
  • Pre-defined volume rendering configurations
  • Volume rendering crop plane
  • Picture exportation (including: BMP, TIFF, JPG, PostScript, POV-Ray)

More features will be available on the next beta releases.

Initially, InVesalius has been translated:

  • English
  • French
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
  • Spanish

And is available for the platforms:

  • Windows 32b
  • Windows 64b
  • GNU Linux 32b (Ubuntu / Debian)
  • GNU Linux 64b (Ubuntu / Debian)

MacOS X installer and other languages-support are on the way.

The InVesalius 3.0 roadmap

One of the primary goals of this beta is to focus attention on the remaining features to be implemented for InVesalius 3.0, and on the bugs that need to be resolved before the final release.

We are planning at least 4 beta releases before releasing the official version of InVesalius, which is currently targeted for the September 2010.

Keep an eye on InVesalius 3.0 progress:

What you can do to help

In order to provide a high-quality 3.0 release, we need your help. Although this beta release is, again, not intended for production use, you can help the InVesalius team by trying out the beta installers and reporting any bugs or issues you encounter.

Please, open new tickets if no existing ticket corresponds to a problem you're running into:

Additionally, discussion of InVesalius development, including progress toward the 3.0 release, takes place on the users and developers discussion forums:

Contributors on any level -- developing code, writing documentation, translating InVesalius to other languages (with  Transifex), designing icons and logo, or simply triaging tickets and helping to test proposed bugfixes - are always welcome and appreciated.

Manual by user

Fabio Francisco da Silva wrote a user guide based on InVesalius 3 alpha 2. This manual is available inside InVesalius (About > Getting Started), and you can also download it from this link (currently available only in Brazilian Portuguese).

Questions/Feedback?

Having trouble? We'd like to help!

  • Try the  FAQ -- it's got answers to many common questions.
  • Search for information in the archives of the discussion forum (above), or post a new question.
  • If you notice errors with InVesalius 3.0 or with its documentation, please, let us know, through the forum or by <invesalius at cti.gov.br>!

Community Announcement

[InVesalius] Help us test the next version of InVesalius

The first beta installer of InVesalius 3.0 is now available as a
preview release, with immediate availability for Windows and GNU
Linux.

InVesalius 3.0b has already been translated to English, Spanish,
Portuguese, and French (thanks to Frédéric Lopez). Also, a user guide is delivered with InVesalius 3.0b(contribution by Fabio Francisco da Silva).

MacOS X installer and other languages-support are on the way.

Read all about the release [1] and download [2] it now!

[1] http://svn.softwarepublico.gov.br/trac/invesalius/wiki/releases/3.0-beta-1
[2] http://svn.softwarepublico.gov.br/trac/invesalius/wiki/downloads/3.0-beta-1