Both applications are compatible only with macOS. OsiriX has two versions: one not free and FDA/CE certified, and the other free and non-certified. There are differences: MUSICardio is dedicated to cardiology with dedicated tools, imports and exports several data types in addition to DICOM, and has a pipeline system of Python scripts allowing to chain tools and algorithms very easily for the users. They can be compared to our MUSICardio application within the MUSIC platform.
Some imaging platforms similar on some points to MUSIC allow us to situate ourselves: OsiriX (, accessed on 1 June 2022) and Horos (, accessed on 1 June 2022) (OsiriX fork) are imaging applications allowing the reading of DICOM from sources or PACS systems, data visualisation in 2D/3D/4D, and have imaging tools and algorithms. Thus, this extraction of quantitative information from medical data leads to more repeatable and reliable medical diagnoses. It also helps our researchers develop new techniques and have a better understanding of the cardiac tissue properties and physiological signals. This platform was created to improve the image-guided cardiovascular interventional procedures and is a robust platform for AI/Deep Learning, image analysis and modelling in a newly created consortium with international hospitals.
The aim of this study is to introduce a novel multimodality software platform dedicated to cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy guidance: MUSIC. In the past years, several cross-platform toolkits have been developed to provide image analysis tools to help build such software. Innovative, robust and multimodal tools need to be created in order to fuse imaging data (e.g., MR, CT) with mapped electrical activity and to integrate those into 3D biophysical models. The tremendous advancement of cardiac imaging methods, the substantial progress in predictive modelling, along with the amount of new investigative multimodalities, challenge the current technologies in the cardiology field.