osirix
OsiriX DICOM Viewer (by pixmeo)
EPANET
The Water Distribution System Hydraulic and Water Quality Analysis Toolkit (by OpenWaterAnalytics)
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osirix
Posts with mentions or reviews of osirix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.
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I present to you the Bramp - a Hue powered lamp made of a 3D print of my own brain
OsirisX for reading and manipulating the DICOM images
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CT scan of a patient who had swallowed 63 packets of cocaine. The packets were successfully evacuated using laxatives.
This looks like a 3D reconstruction of a CT image, so it can be colored however the authors want it to be colored. CT imaging in and of itself involves shooting x-rays at the subject being imaged and (essentially) measuring what comes out the other side. As such, CT results (as far as I know) don't have colors 'baked into them'; the information in each pixel is an intensity value that ranges from 0 (no x-rays made it through) to 1 (the detector is saturated with x-rays; 255 may be more realistic than 1 here because 255 is the max number that can be stored in an 8-bit byte). So basically what I think the authors did here is acquire the CT image and then use a medical image viewer like OsiriX to generate a 3D reconstruction of that image. Once such a reconstruction is made, changing colors in it is as simple as changing colors in any other 3D editing software. So in my opinion, the novel/interesting thing here is the thing being imaged, not the image itself (although I will say it's interesting that they were able to isolate JUST the cocaine packets and the bone, with all other soft tissue and organs removed)
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Can someone please look at my MRI and tell me what's going on!
You can view the images with https://www.osirix-viewer.com but I would take that disc and see a number of physicians (orthopedic, neuro, physiatry) and ask them for their opinion and to please explain what they see. They should pull the images up and evaluate the spine axially and sagittally (top-down, left-to-right), level by level and point out features to you: discs, exiting nerve roots, etc. It'll become pretty obvious if there's a pattern: stenosis, arthritis, overgrown ligament, etc... Also ask them what they think is appropriate for treatment.
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Reading MRI CD help
I used https://www.osirix-viewer.com/ and could see the MRI easily. I used this CD reader https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PV958PN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Ask HN: What is the most interesting FOSS that most people don't know about?
OsiriX viewer. I got it to view my before/after CT scans to see exactly what happened in surgery. It's pretty wild being able to see inside yourself.
The site: https://www.osirix-viewer.com
The repo: https://github.com/pixmeo/osirix
EPANET
Posts with mentions or reviews of EPANET.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.
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Ask HN: What is the most interesting FOSS that most people don't know about?
EPANET (https://github.com/OpenWaterAnalytics/EPANET & https://www.epa.gov/water-research/epanet )
Chances are the water network that's connect to your home was modelled using this FOSS by the US EPA.
Unfortunately, it was probably done using a commercial tool by Bentley or Innovyze/Autodesk but the underlying modeling engine was from the EPA.
What are some alternatives?
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