IGSTK

Infobox_Software
name = IGSTK

caption = ITK Logo
developer = Insight Software Consortium
latest_release_version = 3.0.0
latest_release_date = February 15, 2008
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Development Library
license = [http://www.igstk.org/copyright.htm BSD] ,BSD
source model = Open Source
language = C++
website = [http://www.igstk.org IGSTK Homepage] , [http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI/index.php/Main_Page 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.

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.

The project has been supported by several vendors of trackers.

License

* IGSTK is distributed as open-source software, under a BSD license.
* It allows unrestricted use, including use in commercial products [http://www.igstk.org/copyright.htm IGSTK License] .
* The copyright of IGSTK is held by the Insight Software Consortium.

See Also

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

Use in Other Projects

* [http://www.cisst.org/wiki/IGSTK-snippet CISST]
* [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2008_Winter_Project_Week:IGT_IGSTK_Slicer Slicer - IGSTK Integration]

External Links

* [http://www.igstk.org IGSTK homepage]
* [http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI IGSTK wiki]
* [http://isiswiki.georgetown.edu/DataServer/Data/Public/IGSTKTheBook.pdf IGSTK: The Book]
* [http://www.caimr.georgetown.edu Georgetown University, ISIS Center]
* [http://www.kitware.com Kitware homepage]
*Kitware on Wikipedia

References

* [http://insight-journal.org/midas/handle.php?handle=1926/19 IGSTK: Development Process and Project Management Best Practices for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications]
* [http://insight-journal.org/midas/handle.php?handle=1926/31 IGSTK: A State Machine Architecture for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications]
* [http://insight-journal.org/midas/handle.php?handle=1926/223 Robot Assisted Needle Placement: Application developed using an open source image guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK)]
* [http://insight-journal.org/midas/handle.php?handle=1926/226 An Architecture Validation Toolset for Ensuring Patient Safety in an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications]
* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/2/33950/01620995.pdf?arnumber=1620995 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
* [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2039836 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.
* [http://spie.org/x8610.xml An open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery] Kevin Cleary, Luis Ibanez, David Gobbi, and Kevin Gary, DOI: 10.1117/2.1200609.0375
* [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2039808 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.
* [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/633560.html IGSTK: a software toolkit for image-guided surgery applications] Cleary et al. [http://www.cars-int.org CARS] 2004 - Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress and Exhibition, Volume 1268, June 2004, Pages 473-479.
* [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18044098 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.