MITK-US: real-time ultrasound support within MITK

Abstract

MITK-US can be considered a viable rapid prototyping environment for US-based CAI applications.

WITHDRAWN: Image-guided navigation systems for interstitial brachytherapy

“…It can integrate tracking information, correlate quantitative imaging with tracking data and show real-time updates of the position of the instrument and status of the procedure. Open-source software such as MITK, IGSTK and 3D Slicer, with freely available source code and sharable common infrastructure, can be modified to carry out new applications [18][19][20][21]. Therefore, multiple research groups can avoid repeated work like reinventing the software while the modified navigation systems can be adapted to image-guided interstitial brachytherapy.…”

The NifTK software platform for image-guided interventions: platform overview and NiftyLink messaging

“…As software evolves, newer design styles come to light. Recent work has demonstrated the use of micro-services 27 within the MITK-US module [ 19 ], and a similar approach is now implemented within the MITK-IGT framework. 28 The micro-services approach is complimentary to the proposed architecture, and future work could investigate utilising the micro-services approach within the NiftyIGI Data Sources manager, and also embedding NiftyLink/OpenIGTLink functionality within MITK itself.…”

“…Despite the prevalence of the term “Toolkit”, a necessary distinction must be made between libraries such as IGSTK, the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) [ 12 ] and the Visualisation Toolkit (VTK) [ 27 ] that have no end-user application and are intended to be used by application developers, and platforms such as 3D Slicer, MITK, PLUS, CamiTK and NifTK that are provided with end-user functionality to be used as is, and also provide the capability to be extended through a variety of means. In this regard, MITK provides for a wide variety of different usage patterns and can function both as an end-user application containing out of the box IGI components [ 10 , 19 ] or as a library for developers [ 33 ]. MITK has been specifically designed for extension by third parties by using a highly modular architecture and a range of extension mechanisms [ 23 ].…”

“…MITK can be used as a library [ 33 ], or as an application framework [ 23 ] where the design is inspired by the Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi). 3 A recent addition has been the addition of micro-services 4 enabling a service-oriented architecture, which is now used in NifTK, MITK-IGT [ 10 ] and MITK-US [ 19 ]. Provide the facility to send data between machines over an ethernet network Various hardware devices only have drivers for one platform (e.g.…”

“…Furthermore, while not novel in itself, the NifTK platform serves as an integration point for a set of common algorithms such as camera calibration [ 34 ], distortion correction [ 4 ], dense surface reconstruction [ 30 ], point-based registration [ 1 ] and surface-based registration [ 2 ] into an easy-to-use package. In addition, developers can activate any of the available open-source MITK plugins within NiftyIGI, such as those for diffusion imaging [ 11 ], segmentation [ 18 ], or indeed the MITK Image-Guided Therapy Toolbox [ 10 ] and the MITK Ultrasound Toolbox [ 19 ]. As NifTK continues to expand, further plugins will be developed and described in future publications.…”