The 20th alpha version of ModelGUI has just been released. Added features include: support for MINC format image files (limited at present to Linux OS, and reading functions); improved Volume3D functionality, including a more interactive colour mapping interface and the ability to set fixed limits, and bug fixes for handling NIFTI orientation information; improved Pipeline functionality, including a new minc-tools process library; volume-to-volume mapping with several types of interpolation (nearest-neighbour, trilinear, tricubic); volume normalization with a constant or mask image; and several bug fixes.

Outstanding features to implement before the beta release include: fully implemented Project functionality, including a Project Panel; fully implemented XML I/O for the the ModelGUI Session, particularly Shape Models (mostly complete), Windows, Projects, Pipelines (complete), Environments, Graphs (mostly complete), and Data Sources (complete); a more robust Volume3D Input Dialog Box; and a number of critical bug fixes.

Further down the road, we'd like to implement: better Query functionality; Print Layouts for visualizing and outputting data in a more controlled fashion; region-of-interest (ROI) functionality, which will better allow atlas integration, querying, database interaction, and object labelling; 4D shapes (i.e., including a temporal dimension); better CAD and statistical functionality; a computational modelling framework and GUI.