The medical imaging interaction toolkit
The medical imaging interaction toolkit
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DOI：
10.1016/j.media.2005.04.005
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
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10.9
通讯作者：
Meinzer, HP
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作者：
Wolf, I;Vetter, M;Meinzer, HP
经过彻底设计的开源工具包的出现促进了医学成像的进步。Insight Toolkit （ITK）为医学成像的算法范围提供了这一点，特别是用于分割和配准。但医学成像算法必须在临床上应用才能发挥作用，这还需要可视化和交互。可视化工具箱（VTK）具有强大的可视化功能，但仅对交互提供底层支持。在本文中，我们提出了医学成像交互工具包（MITK）。MITK的目标是大大减少为医学图像分析构建专门定制的交互式应用程序所需的工作量。MITK允许ITK开发的算法与VTK创建的可视化轻松组合，并将这两个工具包扩展为具有这些功能的工具包，这些功能超出了两者的范围。MITK增加了对与多个状态的复杂交互以及撤销功能的支持，这是方便用户界面的一个非常重要的先决条件。此外，MITK有助于实现同一数据的多个不同视图（如多平面重建和3D渲染），并支持3D+t数据的可视化，而VTK仅用于创建2D或3D数据的一种视图。MITK几乎重用ITK和VTK的所有内容。因此，它根本不是ITK或VTK的竞争对手，而是一个扩展，它简化了两者的组合，并增加了交互式所需的功能，方便使用医疗成像软件。MITK是一个开源项目（www.mitk.org）。(c) 2005 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
Thoroughly designed, open-source toolkits emerge to boost progress in medical imaging. The Insight Toolkit (ITK) provides this for the algorithmic scope of medical imaging, especially for segmentation and registration. But medical imaging algorithms have to be clinically applied to be useful, which additionally requires visualization and interaction. The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) has powerful visualization capabilities, but only low-level support for interaction.In this paper, we present the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK). The goal of MITK is to significantly reduce the effort required to construct specifically tailored, interactive applications for medical image analysis. MITK allows an easy combination of algorithms developed by ITK with visualizations created by VTK and extends these two toolkits with those features, which are outside the scope of both. MITK adds support for complex interactions with multiple states as well as undo-capabilities, a very important prerequisite for convenient user interfaces. Furthermore, MITK facilitates the realization of multiple, different views of the same data (as a multiplanar reconstruction and a 3D rendering) and supports the visualization of 3D+t data, whereas VTK is only designed to create one kind of view of 2D or 3D data.MITK reuses virtually everything from ITK and VTK. Thus, it is not at all a competitor to ITK or VTK, but an extension, which eases the combination of both and adds the features required for interactive, convenient to use medical imaging software. MITK is an open-source project (www.mitk.org). (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.