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Open source software for medical image processing

Can anybody kindly suggest any open source software / application which is used by researchers / doctors / practitioners at hospitals / clinics to visualize patients information? One example is ...
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Alternative to Matplotlib for scientific plotting with Python

I can't take anymore Matplotlib's general approach of "plotting-by-side-effect". Is there an alternative? I'm looking for something closer in philosophy to Mathematica's Plot function, which returns ...
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Free alternatives to Matlab that run on Linux?

I recently joined the folks using Linux. As a result, I'm trying to replace as much of the propriety applications as I can, with free — and if possible open-source — alternatives. Since I need a ...
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Star System and/or Galaxy modelling/procedural generation software

I am looking for some Star System and/or Galaxy modelling/procedural generation software for a project. I am primarily interested in the properties of the generated bodies -- graphical output is a ...
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IDE for intepreting and compiling multiple languages: Fortran, C, Python, Octave, R...

I am working with Linux systems. I am looking for a IDE where I can write up and compile FORTRAN codes. However, currently I am also coding in bash, Octave, Python and R --- for these I already ...
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