The Image-Guided Surgery ToolKit IGSTK: an open source C++ software toolkit

The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) is an Open Source software project being developed under NIH/NIBIB funding. The toolkit will provide a common platform for implementing image-guided surgery applications and for fostering research in the field. The toolkit is based on several other open source toolkits including ITK, VTK and FLTK. Its architecture is based on the use of medium size classes, each one of them containing an explicit State Machine and a minimized API that enforces fault tolerance by design. This paper describes the architecture and its rationale.

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An open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery

SPIE Newsroom ◽

10.1117/2.1200609.0375 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Kevin Cleary

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Image Guided Surgery ◽

Software Toolkit ◽

Guided Surgery ◽

Image Guided

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IGSTK: Building High Quality Roads with Open Source Software

10.54294/5ssplg ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Luis Ibanez ◽

Andinet Enquobahrie ◽

Matt Turek ◽

Julien Jomier ◽

Rick Avila ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Position Statement ◽

Image Guided Surgery ◽

Software Project ◽

High Quality ◽

Software Applications ◽

Guided Surgery ◽

Image Guided ◽

Visualization Toolkit

This paper is a position statement on the benefits that an Open Source toolkit can bring to the field of image guided surgery. The particular example discussed here is the IGSTK toolkit. IGSTK is an open source software project designed for supporting the development of image guided surgery software applications. It provides functionalities for interfacing with optical and electromagnetic trackers, reading and visualizing DICOM datasets, as well as loading and displaying geometrical models resulting from image segmentation. These functionalities are enveloped by a simplified API implemented in a layer designed with emphasis on patient safety. The Toolkit is designed to ease the development of IGS applications, providing the basic functionalities related to the management of basic components. IGSTK is based on the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), and can be combined with GUI toolkits such as FLTK and Qt. The IGSTK toolkit is distributed under a BSD license. Enter the names of any sponsors and/or funding codes in the box below.

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IGSTK: Framework and example application using an open source toolkit for image-guided surgery applications

10.1117/12.660583 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Peng Cheng ◽

Hui Zhang ◽

Hee-su Kim ◽

Kevin Gary ◽

M. Brian Blake ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Image Guided Surgery ◽

Guided Surgery ◽

Image Guided

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IGSTK: a software toolkit for image-guided surgery applications

International Congress Series ◽

10.1016/j.ics.2004.03.038 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 1268 ◽

pp. 473-479 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Kevin Cleary ◽

Luis Ibanez ◽

Sohan Ranjan ◽

Brian Blake

Keyword(s):

Image Guided Surgery ◽

Software Toolkit ◽

Guided Surgery ◽

Image Guided

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Integration of a real-time video grabber component with the open source image-guided surgery toolkit IGSTK

10.1117/12.772491 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Ole Vegard Solberg ◽

Geir-Arne Tangen ◽

Frank Lindseth ◽

Torleif Sandnes ◽

Andinet A. Enquobahrie ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Real Time ◽

Image Guided Surgery ◽

Source Image ◽

Guided Surgery ◽

Image Guided

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IGSTK: Development Process and Project Management Best Practices for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications

The Insight Journal ◽

10.54294/bz4yb3 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Kevin Gary ◽

Brian Blake ◽

Stephen Aylward ◽

Julien Jomier ◽

David Gobbi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Software Development ◽

Open Source ◽

Development Process ◽

Development Project ◽

Agile Development ◽

Image Guided Surgery ◽

Guided Surgery ◽

Image Guided ◽

Concurrent Development

Open source technologies are increasing in popularity for software development. Many open source projects rely on skilled development teams whose members are distributed throughout the world. Often, agile development methods are employed by these teams, as the focus is on concurrent development and fast production over requirements management and quality assurance. The image-guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK) is an open source development project that relies on the collaboration of a skilled and distributed development team, yet addresses a domain that demands managing requirements as well as implementing a high degree of robustness and addressing safety concerns. Due to this unique cross-section of open source technology and the surgical domain, the IGSTK team has developed a set of best practices and requirements techniques to augment commonly applied agile methods. This paper presents the lessons we have learned as we have engaged in the software development process.

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Robot Assisted Needle Placement: Application developed using an open source image guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK)

The Insight Journal ◽

10.54294/xx69p3 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Peng Cheng ◽

Andinet Enquobahrie ◽

Roland Stenzel ◽

Ralph Lin ◽

Hui Zhang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Minimum Cost ◽

Image Guided Surgery ◽

Source Image ◽

Needle Placement ◽

Target Drug Delivery ◽

Guided Surgery ◽

Image Guided ◽

Clinical Procedures ◽

Target Drug

Using a robot system to position needles or needle shaped tools during clinical procedures such as biopsy, radio frequency ablation, and target drug delivery has a great potentials in increasing accuracy and speed of the process, and minimizing trauma to patient. This paper describes a robot assist needle placement system developed using Image Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK). IGSTK is an open source software toolkit aimed at providing a robust and safe platform for researchers and clinicians for fast prototyping of image guided applications with minimum cost and effort

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