IGSTK

IGSTK
Developer(s)
Initial release	2003
Stable release	4.4 / 10 February 2011; 10 years ago
Repository	igstk.org/IGSTK.git ;
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Development Library
License	BSD, BSD, Open Source
Website	www.igstk.org

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 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 IGSTK License.
The copyright of IGSTK is held by the .

Use in Other Projects[]

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References[]

IGSTK: Development Process and Project Management Best Practices for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
IGSTK: A State Machine Architecture for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
Enquobahrie A, Cheng P, Gary K, et al. (November 2007). "Robot Assisted Needle Placement: Application developed using an open source image guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK)". J Digit Imaging. 20 (Suppl 1): 21–33. doi:10.1007/s10278-007-9054-3. PMC 2039836. PMID 17703338. Robot Assisted Needle Placement: Application developed using an open source image guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK)
An Architecture Validation Toolset for Ensuring Patient Safety in an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
Gary K, Ibanez L, Aylward S, Gobbi D, Blake MB, Cleary K (April 2006). "IGSTK: an open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery". IEEE Computer. 39 (4): 46–53. doi:10.1109/MC.2006.130.
Enquobahrie A, Cheng P, Gary K, et al. (November 2007). "The image-guided surgery toolkit IGSTK: an open source C++ software toolkit". J Digit Imaging. 20 (Suppl 1): 21–33. Bibcode:2007SPIE.6516E..0AC. doi:10.1007/s10278-007-9054-3. PMC 2039836. PMID 17703338.
An open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery Kevin Cleary, Luis Ibanez, David Gobbi, and Kevin Gary, doi:10.1117/2.1200609.0375
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Cleary K, Ibanezb L, Ranjana S, Blake B (June 2004). "IGSTK: a software toolkit for image-guided surgery applications". CARS 2004 – Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress and Exhibition. Vol. 1268. pp. 473–9. doi:10.1016/j.ics.2004.03.038. {{cite conference}}: External link in |book-title= (help)
Cheng P, Zhang H, Kim H, Gary K, Blake MB (12 February 2006). "IGSTK : Framework and example application using an open source toolkit for image-guided surgery applications". Medical Imaging 2006: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display. Proc. SPIE. Vol. 6141, no. 61411Y. doi:10.1117/12.660583. ISSN 1605-7422.