December 2006 - ShapeTools LONI Update
An update to the Loni community regarding recent work and tools.
The
New Tools are an alpha release: They work, however, we need
your comments to
ensure they are usable. The pre-release versions of the new tools will cease working at the
end of January, to be replaced by the final versions.
System Requirements
New Tools
- ObjTranslation: Translates Minc Obj files into either the DX or OFF file format.
- TinyShapeViewer : A lightweight Java3D application, with minimal features, that displays shapes.
- ImageToShape - Creates a ShapeTools rectangular grid containing the data of a single 2D section of an Analyze Image file.
- ImageJAdapter - a Java library which allows ShapeTools programs access to images readable by selected ImageJ plug-ins.
- GeodesicPath - A program to compute the geodesic distance between two points on the surface of a shape
- UcfReorder - A program to correct common flaws in hippocampal contours stored as a Loni UCF.
- ConvexHull - Finds the minimal convex hull that contains a set of points.
- ComputeUcfNonLinearWarp - Computes a map taking contours in one Ucf onto the corrosponding contours in a second Ucf.
- ApplyWarp - Warps a Minc Obj shape file using the map calculated by ComputeUcfNonLinearWarp.
- PlanarUcfWarp - Computes a 2D warp between two Ucf whose contours are projected onto a plane.
- Visualize2DWarp - Generates a deformed grid illustrating the given 2D warp.
Improved Tools
- Shape Viewer : Java3D display tool. Now allows Manual selection of vertices. Selected vertex coordinates may be exported as a CSV file.
- ShapeToolsLibrary : Basic support library for ShapeTools programs. Now reads Duff and CCBBM surfaces.
Older Tools
- ShapeCurvature - A program that calculates and saves the curvature of a surface at its vertices (v1.1).
- ShapeTransform - A program that applies an AIR transform to the coordinates of a Shape's vertices.
- ShapeToDX - A program which translates a variety of Shape files into an OpenDX general format data file.
- ShapeDistance - A program to measure the distance between the vertices of two (homologous) shapes.
- Extract4DucfAttributes - A program that extracts from a Ucf file it's data attribute column.
- InterpolateContour - A program to interpolate the vertices and data attributes of Ucf format contour files.
- VFSBrowser - a File Chooser GUI that offers point-and-click access to remote and local filesystems.
- DXJava - A portable Java library that reads and writes OpenDX data files.
