# ParaView use for microscopy image analysis & visualization
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-use-for-microscopy-image-analysis-visualization/3736
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-use-for-microscopy-image-analysis-visualization/3736 "2020-03-03T19:28:55Z")
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### Author:  [@zwei2001](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/zwei2001)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-use-for-microscopy-image-analysis-visualization/3736/1 "2020-03-03T19:28:55Z")
Interested to know if ParaView possesses following features. Thanks for your helps
GPU for Image Processing?
Multithread?
Stereo image pairs?
Surface rendering?
Shadowing casting?
VR?
Movie recording
Ortho slices/block face views
Volume xyz/arbitrary cropping
channel specific cropping
Annotation on volume
Mesh display support
Channel specific LUT adjustments
Channel specific opacity
4D Movie Support (xyzt)
3D ROI measurements
Create 3D ROIs based on data
Interactive 3D length, angle measurements
3D particle tracking
Multi-modal/multi-channel 3D co-registration
Can handle datasets larger than RAM capacity?
Can run on a computer cluster?
what Built-in sripting / macro language used?
User plugins allowed?
Built-in scripting / macro languages?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-use-for-microscopy-image-analysis-visualization/3736/2 "2020-03-04T02:32:45Z")
> GPU for Image Processing?
Yes
> Multithread?
Yes
> Stereo image pairs?
Yes
> Surface rendering?
Yes
> VR?
Yes
> Movie recording
Yes, but the quality is bad. Instead it is better to generate images and create a correctly encoded movie using ffmpeg for example.
> Volume xyz/arbitrary cropping
Yes
> 3D particle tracking
Yes
> Can handle datasets larger than RAM capacity?
No
> Can run on a computer cluster?
Yes, made for that
> what Built-in sripting / macro language used?
Python
> User plugins allowed?
Python, C++, XML
> Built-in scripting / macro languages?
Python
No idea what you mean :
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Shadowing casting?
Ortho slices/block face views
channel specific cropping
Annotation on volume
Mesh display support
Channel specific LUT adjustments
Channel specific opacity
4D Movie Support (xyzt)
3D ROI measurements
Create 3D ROIs based on data
Interactive 3D length, angle measurements
Multi-modal/multi-channel 3D co-registration
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### Author:  [@bnorthan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/bnorthan)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-use-for-microscopy-image-analysis-visualization/3736/3 "2020-12-16T12:38:28Z")
Hi @mwestphal and @zwei2001
The list @zwei2001 made is pretty representative of the features an image analysist in Microscopy needs in a 3D Viewer. I’ve also been trying to find a tool with the exact same feature set.
> [@zwei2001](#):
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> Ortho slices/block face views
It looks like ParaView has a ‘clip’ and ‘slice’ tool.
> [@zwei2001](#):
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> Multi-modal/multi-channel 3D co-registration
I also need this feature. I’d like to be able to load 2 images of the same sample taken with different instruments. Then manually resize, rotate and transform one to the other. It would also be nice to apply automatic 3D registration and use the 3D view to evaluate the result.