GIBIS-UNIFESP / BIAL

Biomedical Image Analysis Library

Biomedical Image Analysis Library

The Biomedical Image Analysis Library is a poweful tool for developers, physicians, researchers, engineers, and so on. With a intuitive user interface, a physician can make semi-automated diagnostics, segmentations, and apply sophisticated image processing filters using drag and drop features.

Since it is an Open Source Library, its tools and functions can be used by developers, researchers and engineers to make their own applications.

Compiling BIAL

First, you will need Qt ( >= 5.6 ), an opensource C++ framework, that can be found in http://download.qt.io/.

The easiest way to install the library is opening the file "master.pro" on QtCreator, and selecting the "Build", according to the desired build mode (release or debug). Then, the library will be generated at BIAL/build/<linux/windows>/<release/debug>/lib, and the BIAL GUI will be found at BIAL/build/<linux/windows>/<release/debug>/bialgui.

Warning: As libbial.so is a shared library, you will need to add its path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH os MAC OS), with the following command:

        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<BIAL_PATH>/build/<linux|windows>/<release|debug>/lib

Example: In a machine running ubuntu 16.04, you could download Qt 5.9, and compile the whole library and run a test example with the following commands:

    # In ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04 you could use the following commands to install Qt 5.9
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:beineri/opt-qt591-xenial -y && sudo apt-get update;
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install -y qt59base 
    
    

    #Downloading BIAL library from github
    git clone https://github.com/GIBIS-UNIFESP/BIAL

    cd BIAL
    # Generating the makefile with qmake
    qmake -r . 

    # Building the whole project
    make

    # Building a test binary
    cd tst
    make Image-Copy
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../build/linux/release/lib
    ./bin/Image-Copy res/macaw.ppm dat/macaw.ppm