The goal of Ginkgo CADx project was to develop an open source professional DICOM workstation.

The main features of this software are: Ginkgo CADx is written in C++, has a plug-in architecture, and is cross-platform by way of CMake.

It is also based on common open source libraries like VTK,[5] ITK, and wxWidgets.

Ginkgo CADx project started in 2009[6] with the aim to create an interactive, universal, homogeneous, open-source and cross-platform CADx environment.

Developed by MetaEmotion, the first public version (2.0.2.0) of Ginkgo CADx was released in 2010.