Upcoming HI surveys will deliver such large datasets that automated
processing using the full 3-D information to find and characterize HI objects
is unavoidable. Full 3-D visualization is an essential tool for enabling
qualitative and quantitative inspection and analysis of the 3-D data, which is
often complex in nature. Here we present SlicerAstro, an open-source
extension of 3DSlicer, a multi-platform open source software package for
visualization and medical image processing, which we developed for the
inspection and analysis of HI spectral line data. We describe its initial
capabilities, including 3-D filtering, 3-D selection and comparative modelling