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immersive Data Visualisation Interactive Explorer (iDaVIE). The specific goal of iDaVIE is to enable the interrogation of 3D data using virtual reality technology.
https://idavie.readthedocs.io/
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more data formats for iDAVIE-v #242

Open thjarrett opened 2 years ago

thjarrett commented 2 years ago

How about we expand beyond the FITS to be accessible to the community outside of Astro. I'm thinking of data formats like TIFF (cubes), MDS and .... How about the CR/MRI DICOM format used by radiologists ? DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine), extension is known as ".dcm". They are images. A set of them, or layers, that may be compiled into a cube.

Not a crazy weird format, GIMP can read DCM. That is (in fact) how you convert them to FITS images, which then may be combined into a FITS data cube.

Some DCM data file details here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354356/

Edit note: in fact the easiest way to deal with DCM files is to use "convert" and simply change to FITS. I have a pipeline that does tthis now, very easy to create FITS cubes. Looking at an MRI now :-)

vdhulst commented 2 years ago

DICOM is indeed the standard for medical imaging. You may want to look at the formats supported by medical imaging software such as Slicer (www.slicer.org, see also https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/data_loading_and_saving.html#supported-data-formats). We may indeed be able to use existing image format converters.