IGSTK

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IGSTK
Developed by	Insight Software Consortium
Latest release	3.0.0 / February 15, 2008
OS	Cross-platform
Available in	C++
Genre	Development Library
License	BSD,BSD
Website	IGSTK Homepage, Wiki page

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 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 datasets.

Contents 1 History 2 License 3 See Also 4 Use in Other Projects 5 External Links 6 References

[edit] 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 and Kitware. In 2004 a team from the CADDLab at UNC joined the project. Atamai a firm dedicated to development of image-guided surgery toolkits, joined in 2005.

Kevin Cleary, PhD, from the ISIS Center at Georgetown University, has been the principal investigator of this project.

The project has been supported by vendors of trackers, in particular Northern Digital (NDI) and Claron Technologies.

[edit] License

• IGSTK is distributed as open-source software, under a BSD license.
• It allows unrestricted use, including use in commercial products IGSTK License.
• The copyright of IGSTK is held by the Insight Software Consortium.

[edit] See Also

• ITK
• CMake
• CPack
• VTK
• Slicer
• FLTK
• Qt_(toolkit)

[edit] Use in Other Projects

• CISST
• Slicer - IGSTK Integration

[edit] External Links

• IGSTK homepage
• IGSTK wiki
• IGSTK: The Book
• Georgetown University, ISIS Center
• Kitware homepage
• Kitware on Wikipedia

[edit] 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
• IGSTK: an open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery Gary, K.; Ibanez, L.; Aylward, S.; Gobbi, D.; Blake, M.B.; Cleary, K. IEEE Computer Volume 39, Issue 4, April 2006 Page(s): 46 - 53, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MC.2006.130
• The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit IGSTK: An Open Source C++ Software Toolkit Andinet Enquobahrie et al. Journal of Digital Imaging. 2007 November; 20(Suppl 1): 21–33. Published online 2007 August 17. doi: 10.1007/s10278-007-9054-3.
• An open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery Kevin Cleary, Luis Ibanez, David Gobbi, and Kevin Gary, DOI: 10.1117/2.1200609.0375
• Rapid Development of Medical Imaging Tools with Open-Source Libraries Caban et al. Journal of Digital Imaging. 2007 November; 20(Suppl 1): 83–93. Published online 2007 August 7. doi: 10.1007/s10278-007-9062-3.
• IGSTK: a software toolkit for image-guided surgery applications Cleary et al. CARS 2004 - Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress and Exhibition, Volume 1268, June 2004, Pages 473-479.
• IGSTK : Framework and example application using an open source toolkit for image-guided surgery applications Cheng et al. SPIE Progress in biomedical optics and imaging, ISSN 1605-7422.