GMed

GMed is an acronym for GiD Medical . GMed is an adaptive and user-friendly graphical user interface for modelling, data input and visualization all types of medical data. GMed is focused in the medical image processing in the biomechanical research field to generating meshes from the medical images, to apply in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) or structural mechanics (stress analysis, flow problems, etc.). GMed contains several tools for the images treatment using advanced images processing.

Although it's main purpose is medical image processing it is not restricted only to work with images coming from that field provided that the data set be stored in one of the format recognized by GMed.

The image formats recognized by GMed are:

The architecture of GMed is shown below in the following picture:

GMed is based on ITK and VTK . ITK (http://www.itk.org/ ) is a cross-platform system which provide an extensible suite of software tool for image analysis. VTK (http://www.vtk.org/ ) is the leading platform for 3D computer graphics and visualization.

The communication between GiD and GMed is done through Tcl.

With GMed the user can load any of the supported input image data format and visualize it with different techniques implemented in VTK. Besides the data can be processed in order to obtain a geometric representation of the region of interest. This geometric information is imported into GiD in an automatic way.

GMed can be downloaded from "Internet Retrieve" or from the website (www.gidhome.com) an installed as plug-in in GiD. It comes in different flavors:

The license for those modules can be downloaded on demand, and conditions for each license can be consulted in the website (www.gidhome.com), or contacting gid@cimne.upc.edu.