The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK: pronounced IGStick) is a software package oriented to facilitate the development of image-guided surgery applications.
IGSTK is an
open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...
toolkit designed to enable biomedical researchers to rapidly prototype and create new applications for image-guided surgery. This toolkit provides functionalities that are commonly needed when implementing image-guided surgery applications, such as integration with optical and electromagnetic trackers, manipulation and visualization of
DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data. DICOM is most commonly used for storing and transmitting medical images enabling the integ ...
datasets.
History
The development of IGSTK was funded by the
US National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, one of the US National Institutes of Health
NIH. Development started in 2003 as a collaboration between the ISIS Center at
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
and
Kitware. In 2004 a team from the CADDLab at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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joined the project. Atamai a firm dedicated to development of image-guided surgery toolkits, joined in 2005.
The project has been supported by several vendors of trackers.
License
* IGSTK is distributed as
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
software, under a
BSD license.
* It allows unrestricted use, including use in commercial product
IGSTK License
* The copyright of IGSTK is held by the
Insight Software Consortium.
See also
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ITK
Itk is a framework for building mega-widgets using the Incr Tcl
incr Tcl (commonly stylised as '' ncr Tcl/nowiki>'', and often abbreviated to ''itcl'') is a set of object-oriented extensions for the Tcl programming language. It is widely us ...
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CMake
In software development, CMake is cross-platform free and open-source software for build automation, testing, packaging and installation of software by using a compiler-independent method. CMake is not a build system itself; it generates anothe ...
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CPack
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VTK
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and scientific visualization.''Visualization Handbook'', Academic Press, 2005, Chapter 30: the Visualization Toolkit/ref>
VTK is distrib ...
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3DSlicer
3D Slicer (Slicer) is a free and open source software package for image analysis and scientific visualization. Slicer is used in a variety of medical applications, including autism, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, prost ...
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FLTK
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Qt (toolkit)
Use in Other Projects
CISSTSlicer - IGSTK Integration
External links
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IGSTK wikiIGSTK: The BookGeorgetown University, ISIS CenterKitware homepage
* Kitware on Wikipedia
References
IGSTK: Development Process and Project Management Best Practices for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
IGSTK: A State Machine Architecture for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
Robot Assisted Needle Placement: Application developed using an open source image guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK)
An Architecture Validation Toolset for Ensuring Patient Safety in an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
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An open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery
Kevin Cleary, Luis Ibanez, David Gobbi, and Kevin Gary,
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*{{cite conference , book-title=Medical Imaging 2006: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display , vauthors=Cheng P, Zhang H, Kim H, Gary K, Blake MB , title=IGSTK : Framework and example application using an open source toolkit for image-guided surgery applications , journal=Proc. SPIE , volume=6141 , issue=61411Y , date=12 February 2006 , doi=10.1117/12.660583 , issn=1605-7422
Free software programmed in C++