Gimias

[Gimias] "is a workflow-oriented environment for solving advanced biomedical image computing and individualized simulation problems, which is extensible through the development of problem-specific plug-ins. In addition, GIMIAS provides an open source framework for efficient development of research and clinical software prototypes integrating contributions from the Physiome community while allowing business-friendly technology transfer and commercial product development."

Type of Data

Gimias is used mostly to process mesh data, but also 2 and 3D scalar images, and, more generally, medical images.

Size of Data Set

Data sets are:

• "millions of elements"
• 10kB to 15GB
• up to 1GB
• few MB to GB

Advantages

• Gimias allows rapid prototyping of clinical applications.
• It is open-source
• Cross-platform

Quality of Documentation/Tutorials

Documentation is applauded. "not extensive, but useful", "excellent". It appears to cater for the whole range of users - novice to expert.

Range of Data Formats

"most of them" is a phrase used. In addition, it provides the facility to create a reader for any new format

Level of Support Available

Respondents state it has a very responsive development team.

Performance

Performance is uniformly described as good.

Limitations

It seems to have no limitations.

Comments

The one comment, made in 3 of the 4 responses is that this is open source , BSD licence, and extensible.