Guest Editors:
Kenji Hirata: Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan
Takahito Nakajima: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, University of Tsukuba, Japan
BMC Medical Imaging called for submissions to our Collection on open source software for medical imaging. This collection welcomed articles presenting novel developments in open-source software and informatic tools used for medical imaging. This includes the design, implementation, characterization, and use of medical imaging software throughout clinical settings as well as practical applications for positioning, segmentation, visualization, and analysis of biomedical images and related data, and image processing tools.