How To Install invesalius on Debian 10

Learn how to install invesalius on Debian 10 with this tutorial. invesalius is 3D medical imaging reconstruction software

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install invesalius on Debian 10.

What is invesalius

invesalius is:

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, Czesh, 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

There are three methods to install invesalius on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install invesalius Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install invesalius using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install invesalius

Install invesalius Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install invesalius using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install invesalius

Install invesalius Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install invesalius using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install invesalius

How To Uninstall invesalius on Debian 10

To uninstall only the invesalius package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove invesalius

Uninstall invesalius And Its Dependencies

To uninstall invesalius and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove invesalius

Remove invesalius Configurations and Data

To remove invesalius configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge invesalius

Remove invesalius configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove invesalius configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge invesalius

Dependencies

invesalius have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install invesalius package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.