[Paraview] Reading ANALYZE files in paraview

[Lisa Avila]

ParaView has been traditionally more of a scientific visualization / 
unstructured data tool - it is only with this latest release that you 
can even directly visualize 3D image data with volume rendering, and the 
support is still limited. I am sure that as more support for structured 
data is incorporated into ParaView, more 3D image file formats will be 
supported. However, at this point I am not sure if anyone that is 
funding ParaView development is interested in using ParaView for medical 
image processing - hence such contributions may need to originate from 
the user / developer community.

For now, you can download VolView from the Kitware web site, and use it 
to convert your Analyze files into something like vti (the VTK native 
format) that ParaView can read.

Lisa


Arne Hansen wrote:
> Sure i can. ANALYZE is a common fileformat for medical images. It is 
> used by a lot of people. Actually i thought it was one of the most 
> used formats for medical images, but maybe i am wrong.
> Here is a specification: http://www.mayo.edu/bir/PDF/ANALYZE75.pdf
> I think it was developed by the same people that also develop SPM for 
> matlab, but i am not sure of this.
> Here is more information: 
> http://www.grahamwideman.com/gw/brain/analyze/formatdoc.htm
>  
> I find it a bit strange that paraview cannot read these files.
>  
> Thank you
>
>
>  
> 2007/1/17, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu <mailto:eschenbe at psc.edu>>:
>
>     HI Arne,
>
>     I've never heard of "ANALYZE" images. Is "ANALYZE" the name of the
>     application or the file format? Could you supply the URL for a web
>     site describing these image files? Do you know anything about the
>     format of the image files?
>
>     --On 01/17/2007 03:35:53 PM +0100 bsd.diverse at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bsd.diverse at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > Hello. How can i read ANALYZE images in paraview?
>     > It seems that I was not able to find any built in ANALYZE reader.
>     > Can that really be true?
>     >
>     > Thank you
>
>     Kent
>     Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>
>
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