Title
Integration of the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) into the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK).
Abstract
The development cycle of an image-guided surgery navigation system is too long to meet current clinical needs. This paper presents an integrated system developed by the integration of two open-source software (IGSTK and MITK) to shorten the development cycle of the imageguided surgery navigation system and save human resources simultaneously. An image-guided surgery navigation system was established by connecting the two aforementioned open-source software libraries. It used the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) as a framework providing image processing tools for the image-guided surgery navigation system of medical imaging software with a high degree of interaction and used the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) as a library that provided the basic components of the system for location, tracking, and registration. The electromagnetic tracking device was used to measure the real-time position of surgical tools and fiducials attached to the patient's anatomy. IGSTK was integrated into MITK; at the same time, the compatibility and the stability of this system were emphasized. Experiments showed that an integrated system of the image-guided surgery navigation system could be developed in 2 months. The integration of IGSTK into MITK is feasible. Several techniques for 3D reconstruction, geometric analysis, mesh generation, and surface data analysis for medical image analysis of MITK can connect with the techniques for location, tracking, and registration of IGSTK. This integration of advanced modalities can decrease software development time and emphasize the precision, safety, and robustness of the image-guided surgery navigation system. © Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine 2012.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s10278-012-9477-3
J. Digital Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
MITK,IGSTK,Image-guided surgery navigation,Development cycle,Open-source software,Integration
Computer vision,Software design,Medical imaging,Computer science,Navigation system,Image-guided surgery,Software,Artificial intelligence,Software verification and validation,Software development,System integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
6
1618727X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.54
5
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tong Lu160.54
Ping Liang2207.45
Wenbo Wu3101.74
Jin Xue460.88
Cheng-Long Lei560.54
Yin-Yan Li660.54
Yun-Na Sun760.54
Fangyi Liu881.25