# Information regarding 3D Slicer for a literature review paper

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**Created:** [March 15, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/information-regarding-3d-slicer-for-a-literature-review-paper/42153 "2025-03-15T16:01:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![aronosterlund](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/aronosterlund/32/79726_2.png) [@aronosterlund](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/aronosterlund)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/information-regarding-3d-slicer-for-a-literature-review-paper/42153/1 "2025-03-15T16:01:00Z")

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Hey,

I am writing a systematic review paper about body composition analysis (BCA) software tools for CT and MRI. The review is going to be published in a peer reviewed journal paper in addition to being a part of my bachelor’s thesis at Aalto University, Finland. The study plan is registered to PROSPERO (CRD420250651100).

The aim is to compare software tools for BCA, regarding accessibility (open access vs commercial), automation of segmentation, output variables (SMM, PMM, SAT, VAT, IMAT, etc.).

I would need answers to a few short questions:

Software name  
Website for download  
Creator/Copyright holder   
Open-source (yes/no)  
License (open access or commercial)  
Price (if applicaple) Coding language  
Degree of automation of segmentation (manual, semiautomatic, or automatic) Allows training with the user’s own data (yes/no)  
AI models used (U-Net etc.)  
CT or MRI  
2D or 3D segmentation  
Available for clinical use  
CE-marked (yes/no)  
FDA approved (yes/no)  
Specs requirements (OS, CPU, GPU, RAM etc)  
Downloadable or web application  
DOI (for article of software)

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/information-regarding-3d-slicer-for-a-literature-review-paper/42153/2 "2025-03-15T16:14:10Z")

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- Software name: 3D Slicer
- Website for download: [www.slicer.org](http://www.slicer.org)
- Creator/Copyright holder: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Open-source (yes/no): yes
- License (open access or commercial): open, free, permissively license (BSD-like, [Slicer/License.txt at main · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/blob/main/License.txt))
- Price (if applicaple): free
- Coding language: C++, Python
- Degree of automation of segmentation (manual, semiautomatic, or automatic): automatic and semi-automatic and manual
- Allows training with the user’s own data (yes/no): yes
- AI models used (U-Net etc.): yes, many
- CT or MRI: both (and many others)
- 2D or 3D segmentation: both, also 4D
- Available for clinical use: yes, clinician’s responsibility (hundreds of examples)
- CE-marked (yes/no): applications built on Slicer platform received CE marking
- FDA approved (yes/no): applications built on Slicer platform received FDA approval
- Specs requirements (OS, CPU, GPU, RAM etc): windows, linux, or macos; CPU not older than 5 years; GPU is used but not required; 8GB or more RAM is recommended
- Downloadable or web application: downloadable for windows, linux, macos + many variants are available on the web ([docker](https://github.com/pieper/SlicerDockers), [trame](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kitware-sas_3dslicer-trame-medicalimaging-activity-7286003354420281344-OlM3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAANbVMYBr7veNR93l1nczCWzGqteluxucc8))
- DOI (for article of software): [About 3D Slicer — 3D Slicer documentation](https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/about.html#how-to-cite), DOI of reference paper: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.05.001.

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**Author:** ![aronosterlund](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/aronosterlund/32/79726_2.png) [@aronosterlund](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/aronosterlund)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/information-regarding-3d-slicer-for-a-literature-review-paper/42153/3 "2025-03-21T09:50:25Z")

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Thank you for the answers.