Girder Plugin for VolView

Open Items in VolView with a "Open in VolView" button. The button is located in the top right, on an Item's page.

Supported Image File Formats

• DICOM .dcm
• Nrrd .nrrd
• NIFTI .nii
• VTK image .vti
• And many more. Try dragging and dropping the file(s) on the VolView Demo Site

Configuration

A .volview_config.yaml file placed higher in the folder hierarchy configures the VolView client: view layouts, annotation labels, keyboard shortcuts, default window/level, segment-group save format, and automatic layer/segment-group association by file name.

See Client configuration, and Loading Layers and Segmentations for DICOM-specific association rules.

Sessions: save / restore

Saving in VolView writes a session.volview.zip item next to the data; each save creates a new one, so older saves remain reopenable. Each open gesture has one meaning:

• Open an item / checked images → fresh, always.
• Check a session.volview.zip item → exactly that save (back in history).
• Open a folder (nothing checked) → the folder's newest save, else its raw images.
• Open a grouped DICOM row → the row's newest save, else its images fresh.
• Refresh (F5) after saving → reloads the save you just made.

Details, including the launch URL parameters and per-gesture flows, are in Sessions.

More

• Session Builder — generate VolView sessions programmatically with Python, e.g. from analysis pipelines.
• VolView Radiology CLI — reference task image used to drive Girder-VolView processing in development and end-to-end tests.
• Building and deploying custom Slicer CLIs — package VolView analysis tasks, including external-compute adapters, and install their images in DSA.
• Customize file browsing — group images and add metadata columns via .large_image_config.yaml.
• Server administration — S3 download proxying.

Development

Dev-stack setup, API endpoints, developing the VolView client against this plugin, and the backend contract/conformance tests are documented in Development.