Welcome to SlicerMorph

Our project aims to enhance the open-source 3D Slicer platform with cutting-edge tools to assist biologists, anthropologists, and morphologists in analyzing 3D data from research imaging modalities. Our ultimate goal is to foster a collaborative community within the 3D Slicer ecosystem to facilitate seamless data exchange and promote the advancement of open science.

SlicerMorph streamlines digital morphology research by enabling effortless data import, visualization, measurement, annotation, and geometric morphometric analysis on 3D data, including volumetric scans (CTs and MRs) and 3D surface scans, all within the 3D Slicer application. Say goodbye to multiple programs, different file formats, and workflows!

Getting started with SlicerMorph

If you are not familiar with the 3D Slicer or looking for a free (and open-source) alternative to commercial 3D visualization programs, you can start by downloading Slicer from http://download.slicer.org. Please use the latest stable version. After installing Slicer, use the extension manager to search for and install SlicerMorph. This is the official method of obtaining SlicerMorph, which will give you the most up-to-date version.
Follow this link for more detailed installation instructions

Documentation and Self Help

How to Cite SlicerMorph?

If you used SlicerMorph in your project, depending on the which module(s) you have interacted with please give citation to one or more of the following papers:

Some additional tutorials

Events

Recurring Online SlicerMorph User Group Meeting

Join us via online every 4th Tuesday of the month at 11PST (please join the mailing list for the meeting link)

Upcoming Events

  • July 26th, 2024 Introduction to 3D Digital Morphology and Morphometrics with SlicerMorph Full Day Workshop at Evolution 2024. Montreal, QC
  • March 22nd, 2024 The Future of Anatomical Visualization: Collaborative Digital Morphology with 3D Slicer and SlicerMorph at Anatomy Connected 2024. Toronto, ON
  • Past Events

    Where to find 3D specimen data

    If you are looking for sample 3D specimen data, these repositories are good places to start. Feel free to contact us if you are aware of other large 3D specimen repositories.

    1. MorphoSource: MorphoSource is a project-based data archive that allows researchers to store and organize, share, and distribute their own 3d data.
    2. New Mexico Decedent Image Database (NMDID): provides researchers with access to whole human body computed tomography (CT) scans and a rich body of associated metadata.
    3. DigiMorph: Digital Morphology library is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens.
    4. FaceBase: Comprehensive craniofacial data (including 3D imaging datasets) from model organisms (mouse and zebrafish) and humans.
    5. MorphoBrowser:‘MorphoBrowser’ database and interface is a 3D visualisation and searching tool for mammalian teeth, accessible over the web.
    6. Phenome10K: A free online repository for 3-D scans of biological and palaeontological specimens.
    7. Genetics of craniofacial shape in Mus: High-resolution 3D microCT head scans of a mouse panel between C57BL/6J and A/J mouse strains and associated genotype data. Contains mCT scans of ~500 mice heads and associated cranial landmarks.
    8. Digital Morphology Museum of Kyoto University (KUPRI): DMM provides a large collection of CT and MRI tomography scans of various primates.
    9. The Open Research Scan Archive (formerly: Penn Cranial CT Database) contains high resolution (sub-millimeter) scans of human and non-human crania from the Penn University Museum and other institutions.
    10. MorphoMuseuM (M3): is a peer reviewed, online journal that publishes 3D models of vertebrates, including models of type specimens, anatomy atlases, reconstruction of deformed or damaged specimens, and 3D datasets.
    11. GB3D: Fossils Online project, aims to develop a single database of the type specimens, held in British collections, of macrofossil species and subspecies found in the UK, including links to photographs and a selection of 3D digital models.

    Sample Datasets to test SlicerMorph

    We have couple 3D landmark datasets that you can use to test SlicerMorph. Sample Data can be found at https://github.com/SlicerMorph/SampleData

    Data Dropbox

    We are looking for sample data from diverse set of organisms (and scales) to test our package. It will be greatly helpful, if you can donate sample data for different organisms, and especially for 3D modalities apart from CT/microCT. The public data drop folder is located at https://faculty.washington.edu/maga/data_dropbox/. Please do provide a brief description of the dataset and your e-mail. If you have multiple files (e.g., image stacks, associated landmarks, segmentations, etc.), please zip them as a single file. If you send us any data in proprietary formats (Amira, Avizo, Geomagick, etc.), please provide us with a description of the format so that we can research ways of converting them into an open format correctly and publish the workflow for the benefit of the community.

    Funding acknowledgement

    This project is supported by a NSF Advances in Biological Informatics Collaborative grant to Murat Maga (ABI-1759883), Adam Summers (ABI-1759637) and Doug Boyer (ABI-1759839). SlicerMorphCloud and online workshops are partly supported by the University of Washington Azure Cloud Computing Credits and ACCESS/XSEDE allocation, SlicerMorphCloud: An interactive, cloud-based platform for quantitative analysis of high-resolution 3D scans of biological specimens (TG-BIO180006).