Viking Viewer for Connectomics
Viking is a multi-user modular viewing and annotation system which functions with any type of stacked 2D imagery. Originally designed for transmission electron microscopy connectome data Viking has been used for confocal, bright field, and OCT images. Available from:
http://connectomes.utah.edu/
A paper describing Viking is here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2818.2010.03402.x/abstract
Viking requires images be available over HTTP and follow a standard URL naming convention with basic meta-data in an accompanying XML file. Consult the website or author about making images/volumes compatible with Viking. Viking is capable of texture mapping images in real-time on to meshes using the GPU if needed. Viking runs on Windows.
An optional annotation module allows concurrent markup of data sets via a WSDL web service and requires a separate server installation. Server installation is non-trivial and until it improves we are open to hosting databases on the our annotation server.
http://connectomes.utah.edu/
A paper describing Viking is here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2818.2010.03402.x/abstract
Viking requires images be available over HTTP and follow a standard URL naming convention with basic meta-data in an accompanying XML file. Consult the website or author about making images/volumes compatible with Viking. Viking is capable of texture mapping images in real-time on to meshes using the GPU if needed. Viking runs on Windows.
An optional annotation module allows concurrent markup of data sets via a WSDL web service and requires a separate server installation. Server installation is non-trivial and until it improves we are open to hosting databases on the our annotation server.
