Ogles(1) and Ogles2 are two projects in the context of frame
based stereotactic neurosurgery. Both projects include volume
rendering and slice data visualization tools, mechanisms for
trajectory planning and importing as well as creating 3D surface
meshes (Open Inventor).
Both projects allow for reproducing the work-flow of
stereotactic neurosurgery. Both strive to provide an open source
data model for neuroscientific data visualization and analytics.
Neither Ogles(1) nor Ogles2 are approved for clinical use.
Ogles(1) was developed from 2004 to 2008. It stands on the
shoulders of Ogle, a
3D data visualization tool create by
Dr. Michael J. Gourlay at
Cora.
Shortcomings of Ogles(1) include negligence of spatial
information from image headers, tedious image loading limited to
command line arguments, a somewhat outdated user interface, and
poor capabilities to store results. Development of Ogles(1) is
discontinued.
Ogles2
is under development since 2012. Ogles2 tries to get over
the shortcomings of Ogles(1). It takes spatial information from
NIfTI-1 images into account,
loading of images as well as surface meshes is integrated into the GUI.
Saving of results is still sparse but greatly improved.
GUI was changed to Qt (4.8.x).
Coin3D / Open Inventor was chosen as underlying 3d library (instead of pure OpenGL).
Furthermore Ogles2 allows for visualization of a deep brain
electrodes (Medtronic 3389).
Ogles2 is in late beta phase, release candidate is Ogles2b.
Simple Dicom Reader 2
(Sdr2) is the successor of the discontinued Sdr(1).
Sdr2 is yet another DICOM
to
NIfTI converter.