# 3D SLIC Visualisation

**URL:** <https://discourse.itk.org/t/3d-slic-visualisation/5010>\
**Category:** Beginner Questions\
**Tags:** slic, mri, segmentation, simpleitk, python\
**Created:** [May 25, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/3d-slic-visualisation/5010 "2022-05-25T20:59:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![aliabidi](https://discourse.itk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@aliabidi](https://discourse.itk.org/u/aliabidi)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/3d-slic-visualisation/5010/1 "2022-05-25T20:59:01Z")

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As a follow-up from [this question](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-get-slic-visualisation-using-simpleitk-slicimagefilter/4992) regarding SLIC segmentation in 2D, I was wondering whether there is any method or technique to visualise images in 3D?

Something similar to the image below from [this paper](https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/147983593.pdf).

![image](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6331ad5c1e15be455ce574181a8e7f773d6d9343.png)

To give some more clarity of my current process, I have 3D T2 MRI images which are NIfTI (`.nii.gz`) files. I load them and apply SLIC segmentation as follows:

```auto
img = sitk.ReadImage(img_path)
slic = sitk.SLICImageFilter()
seg = slic.Execute(img)

```

My original images look like this:

 ![image](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/d/dd76f82e9e4b95f4e30cd6b513a22f3df301ecb1.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![zivy](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/zivy/32/1726_2.png) [@zivy](https://discourse.itk.org/u/zivy)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/3d-slic-visualisation/5010/2 "2022-05-25T23:42:40Z")

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Hello @aliabidi,

I’d use Slicer to display the slices in 3D:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-05-25 at 7.35.01 PM](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/23dbcd1cde8e21279c2a00a6ca64ee1fca07905c.jpeg)

You can play with the sliders to get a specific view. The [relevant slicer documenation](https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/user_interface.html#slice-view), slice-view “Show in 3D”.