Installation

System requirements

Web application for realtime 3D display of mesh-data representing structural parcellations, and generation of user defined cut planes. Any web browser can be used.

Conditions of use

Licence:

Source code: MIT License.

Citation of the tool:

-RRID on SciCrunch: (MeshView, RRID:SCR_017222)

  • Puchades M, Yates SC, Csucs G, Carey H, Balkir A, Leergaard T, Bjaalie JG.

    Software and pipelines for registration and analyses of rodent brain image data in reference atlas space. Frontiers of Neuroinformations. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2025.1629388

  • Puchades MA, Csucs G, Ledergerber D, Leergaard TB, Bjaalie JG.

    Spatial registration of serial microscopic brain images to three-dimensional reference atlases with the QuickNII tool. 2019. PLOS ONE 14(5): e0216796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216796

Access

Tip

MeshView can be used directly (see links further down) but is also available in the QUINT online workflow https://quint-online.apps.ebrains.eu/ and the LocaliView workflow https://localiview.apps.ebrains.eu/ through EBRAINS.

Individual links can be found here:

Waxholm Space Atlas of the Sprague Dawley Rat Brain v2 - hierarchical, 80 visible structures, with “inner ear”.

Waxholm Space Atlas of the Sprague Dawley Rat Brain v3 - hierarchical, 118 visible structures.

Waxholm Space Atlas of the Sprague Dawley Rat Brain v4 - hierarchical, 222 visible structures.

Allen Mouse Brain Atlas CCFv3 2015 - hierarchical, color-reduced version, 211 visible structures, with “root” (transparent at start).

Allen Mouse Brain Atlas CCFv3 2017 - hierarchical, 670 visible structures, with “root” (transparent at start).

Allen Mouse Brain Atlas CCFv3 root - root structure only (brain outline).

For versions with double cut of the point clouds se here:

https://meshview-for-brain-atlases.readthedocs.io/en/latest/displaying.html#meshview-with-double-cut-feature

Versions and release notes

Current version: MeshView 0.8h