One Software: From Medical Images to CAD
A single streamlined workflow enables you to create manufacturable and 3D-printable designs directly from medical images. We provide powerful medical image analysis tools within a high-end CAD environment in an all-in-one workspace. You no longer need to import and export between different tools or switch software for the different steps in the workflow. With Rhino3DMedical you will improve your efficiency, save time and costs when creating biomedical CAD models such as implants and prostheses.
Your Benefits
Directly read and process all common medical image formats (DICOM, NIFTI, mhd). View, analyze, measure and annotate images, segment, extract, and repair meshes and enjoy the rich CAD modeling freedom directly within your 3D image space. Automate workflows through Rhino-Grasshopper or Python scripting for batch processing and repetitive tasks.
Cost-Efficient and Scalable Design Process
With Rhino3DMedical you significantly speed-up iterations between, measurement, annotation, design and positioning of a CAD model within an anatomical structure. You don’t need to deal with the hassle of format incompatibilities and through the integrated Rhino-python engine you can high-throughput your medical data and directly connect it to your FEM tool.
Features

Visualization
- Read DICOM, NIFTI, MetaImage, NRRD, TIFF
Display and navigate through the slices
- View the 3D volume
- Set color look-up table
- Adjust background color

Analysis
- Adjust contrast
- Thresholding based on tissue intensities
- Highlight and label regions
- Draw directly on images
- Annotate and measure

Segmentation
- Intensity-based segmentation
- Semi-automatic segmentation
- Manual segmentation
- Edge, surface, volume segmentation
- 2D and 3D segmentation

Mesh Creation
- Automatic mesh extraction
- Mesh repairing
Hole filling
- Smoothing
- Materials, texture and rendering

Freeform Design
- Organic surface modelling
- Precision modelling
- Latticing and structures
- High-end rendering engine
- Python-, batch-, Grasshopper scripting

Clear User Interface
- Easy to learn and use
- Powerful and customizable
- Extendable through scripts and plugins
- Based on Rhino3D
- Vast documentation and tutorials
Download
Download Rhino3DMedical and register for a free trail license key here.
Hardware and Software Requirements: Rhino3DMedical is currently available for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
Rhino3DMedical is currently developed for Rhino 6. Note that for Rhino 6 compatibility, version 6.25 or higher needs to be installed (6.24 and previous are not compatible with Rhino3DMedical). If you have Rhino 6 already installed and it says it’s up to date, you can manually install the update by downloading the installer from McNeel’s website. You can download a free trial of Rhino 6 from: https://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino-for-windows/6/evaluation. There, the full version of Rhino for free is provided for 90 days. The requirements of Rhino 6 can be found here: https://www.rhino3d.com/system_requirements.
Disclaimer: THIS VERSION OF Rhino3DMedical IS NOT CERTIFIED as a medical device for primary diagnosis. If you do use this software for scientific research, please give appropriate credit in publications.
Do you need further information? Send us an e-mail to rhino3dmedical@mirrakoi.com.
Learn more
Getting Started
Here you can a find step-by-step guide on how to use Rhino3DMedical.
- Rhino3DMedical Factsheet: A brief summary of Rhino3DMedical – Rhino3DMedical_factsheet.pdf
- Rhino3DMedical Installation Guide: How to install and activate Rhino3DMedical – Rhino3DMedical_InstallationGuide.pdf
- List of Commands and Grasshopper Components: Rhino3DMedical_Commands
- First steps with Rhino3DMedical: First steps with Rhino3DMedical
- Rhino3DMedical Video Tutorial: Overview of images, masks and IO operations: In this tutorial we give a broad overview of Rhino3DMedical, the tools in tabs Image Analysis, Segmentation, Image Filters and Mesh Repair. We focus on how to open and save images, import and export masks over these images and extract processed images and surfaces.
- Medical image segmentation: Image segmentation using region-growing tools and Segmentation: threshold-based vs region growing
- From Medical Images to 3D Printing: Create a 3D-printable mesh from medical images
Rhino3DMedical: Mask from Mesh: We briefly explain how to create a mask from a closed mesh, and use this mask to further segment and image and extract masked images, in both Rhino3DMedical and Grasshopper.
Grasshopper
Rhino3DMedical Grasshopper: use visual programming to automate workflows – Analyze medical images using Grasshopper and
Process medical images using GrasshopperRhino3DMedical Grasshopper Tutorial: Overview Images Masks And IO Operations: In this tutorial we give a general overview of Rhino3DMedical Grasshopper, the components in Image Filters, Image Operations, IO and Mesh Extraction. We focus on how to read and write images, import and export masks over these images, perform mask operations and extract processed images and surfaces.
- Extract Largest Component: Extract the largest connected component by surface area or by volume – ExtractLargestComponent.gh
- Galapagos Solver: Very simple example for using Rhino3DMedical alongside Galapagos – GalapagosSolver.gh
- Human UI Demo: A sample definition for combining Rhino3DMedical and HumanUI – HUIDemo_simple.gh
- Python Script: How to use Rhino3DMedical components from within a python script – PythonScript.gh
- Showcase: Read an image from disk, apply an image filter, create a mesh and analyze the results; this definition is a showcase of all components currently included in Rhino3DMedical – Showcase.gh