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Free and Open Source Software for the Manipulation of Digital Images

¹ Department of Radiology, Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, 4500 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, NY 11355.
² Department of Radiology, Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center, Jamaica, NY.

OBJECTIVE. Free and open source software is a type of software that is nearly as powerful as commercial software but is freely downloadable. This software can do almost everything that the expensive programs can. GIMP (gnu image manipulation program) is the free program that is comparable to Photoshop, and versions are available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms. This article briefly describes how GIMP can be installed and used to manipulate radiology images.

CONCLUSION. It is no longer necessary to budget large amounts of money for high-quality software to achieve the goals of image processing and document creation because free and open source software is available for the user to download at will.

Keywords: digital images • free software • GIMP • image processing • open source software • Photoshop

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