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InVesalius

3D medical imaging reconstruction software.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

At a glance

InVesalius is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

About

InVesalius generates 3D medical imaging reconstructions based on a sequence of 2D DICOM files acquired with CT or MRI equipments. InVesalius is internationalized (currently available in English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Czech, Japanese, Catalan, Korean, Romanian and German) and provides several tools: DICOM support including: (a) ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2; (b) DICOM version 3.0 (including various encodings of JPEG -lossless and lossy-, RLE) Image manipulation features (zoom, pan, rotation, brightness/contrast, etc) Segmentation based on 2D slices Pre-defined threshold ranges according to tissue of interest Segmentation based on watershed Region growing segmentation Edition tools (similar to Paint Brush) based on 2D slices Semi-automatic segmentation based on Watershed 3D surface creation 3D surface connectivity tools 3D surface exportation (including: binary STL, OBJ, VRML, Inventor) High-quality volume rendering projection Pre-defined volume rendering presets Volume rendering crop plane Picture exportation (including: BMP, TIFF, JPG, PostScript, POV-Ray) Minimum, Maximum or Mean Intensity Projection, Maximum Intensity Difference Accumulation and Contour based visualizations

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  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
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