Upcoming HI surveys will deliver such large datasets that automated processing using the full 3-D information to find and characterize HI objects is unavoidable. Full 3-D visualization is an essential tool for enabling qualitative and quantitative inspection and analysis of the 3-D data, which is often complex in nature. Here we present SlicerAstro, an open-source extension of 3DSlicer, a multi-platform open source software package for visualization and medical image processing, which we developed for the inspection and analysis of HI spectral line data. We describe its initial capabilities, including 3-D filtering, 3-D selection and comparative modelling.
@article{arxiv.1705.00900,
title = {3-D interactive visualisation tools for HI spectral line imaging},
author = {J. M. van der Hulst and D. Punzo and J. B. T. M. Roerdink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00900},
year = {2017}
}