An Introduction to MITK & 3DMed, Free Software and API For Medical Imaging

http://www.mitk.net   http://www.3dmed.net

MITK, standing for Medical Imaging ToolKit, is a C++
library for integrated medical image processing and analyzing algorithms
developed by the Medical Image Processing Group, Institute of
Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), funded by NSFC
(National Natural Science Foundation of China) and 973 project (the
Project for the National Key Basic Research and Development Program). It
provides a consistent framework combining the functions of image
segmentation, registration and visualization to medical imaging society.
Designed on traditional object-oriented fashion, MITK makes the syntax
interfaces simple and intuitive, at the same time, via the optimized
design of the algorithm framework, MITK encapsulates the implementation
details of the underlayer and provides the efficient accesses of the
out-of-core data sets and the hardware acceleration for the key
algorithms. MITK is a new option for medical imaging society in term of
research and education aspects and is free for download.

Features:

• Cross-platform development
• Succinct, efficient and extensible framework
• Various image preprocess algorithms
• Various image reconstruction (CT/3D US/ PET) algorithms
• Various segmentation and registration algorithms
• Surface reconstruction (enhanced marching cubes algorithm) and multi-surface rendering
• Various volume rendering algorithms and multi-dimension transfer function adjusting
• Support out-of-core data processing
• Hardware accelerated reconstruction, surface and volume rendering
• Support multithreading processing

 

3DMed is a PC-based three-dimensional medical image processing and analyzing system. It integrates our research in years and fully understands the users’ requirement in reality. It combines the functions of data acquisition,
data management, slice reading, marking and measurement, image
segmentation and three-dimensional reconstruction. It has been applied
in many hospitals.

Functions:

• Data Interface: supporting various image file formats (DICOM、NetCDF、Analyze、 Meta、JPEG、TIFF、BMP、IM0、RAW)
• 2D Processing: image browsing, selecting, filtering, processing and displaying; 2D geometrical transforming and measuring, etc.
• 3D Processing: tissue segmentation, surface reconstruction, layered displaying, slices interpolating, etc.
• 3D Displaying: reality displaying, multi-dimension transfer function adjusting, 3D geometrical transforming, 3D measurement, 3D orthogonal slice browsing
• Image Reconstruction: various reconstruction methods and GPU-based accelerating reconstruction algorithms
• Image Segmentation: various segmentation methods (Graph Cut, Level Set, Live Wire …)
• Image Registration: general purpose framework for registration, various registration methods (Intensity based, Point based …)
• Out-of-Core Data Processing: supporting the processing of out-of-core, high resolution image data sets and large 3D models
• Plug-in Framework: easy to extend additional functions
• Simple and Wieldy GUI: using Qt for GUI development and supporting on-line language switching

Download Statistics ：
Up till now，
MITK total：9549 times
3DMed total：8019 times

News：

1. About MITK

   MITK 2.3.0.1 was released on 30/7/2010, one of the key changes of this version is that we rearranged the directory structures of MITK. Headers and libraries are distributed into the following packages:

   • mitkCommon: Core classes commonly used by other packages, including IO routines and other basic classes that cannot be sorted into other packages.
   • mitkSegmentation: Segmentation algorithms.
   • mitkRegistration: Registration algorithms.
   • mitkVisualization: Visualization algorithms
   • mitkReconstruction: Basic reconstruction algorithms (only for MSVC compiler)
   • Additional \ mitkReconstructionCG : Reconstruction algorithms take advantage of the cg libraries provided by NVIDIA.(only for MSVC compiler)
   • Additional \ mitkReconstructionCUDA: Reconstruction algorithms take advantage of the CUDA libraries provided by NVIDIA.(only for MSVC compiler)

   Releases for different compilers are available, which are compiled from the same source code.

   • Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (VC9)
   • MinGW5.0 Win32
   • Linux G++ 4 (RHEL5)
   
   
2. About 3DMed

   We are refactorying 3DMed, which will be released soon. The GUI of the new system will be based on QT4, along with which there will be the following new features:

   • Based on an extendable shared-data-list architecture which allows extensions of data types.
   • An enhanced interface for more powerful plugin development.
   • Transporting most functionalities of the the main GUI of the traditional 3DMed into plugins, allowing for multiple child-windows, which can be opened and closed at will.
   • Adding in a console interface, allowing fast tests on premature algorithm designes.
   • Multi-platform support.

   Compared with previous versions of 3DMed, the new version of 3DMed will devote more to providing a better testing environment for researchers and system developers.