IGSTK

Developer(s)	Insight Software Consortium
Initial release	2003
Stable release	4.4 / February 10, 2011 (2011-02-10)
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 Insight Software Consortium.

See also

• ITK
• CMake
• CPack
• VTK
• 3DSlicer
• FLTK
• Qt (toolkit)

Use in Other Projects

• CISST
• Slicer - IGSTK Integration

External links

• Official website
• IGSTK wiki
• IGSTK: The Book
• Georgetown University, ISIS Center
• Kitware homepage
• Kitware on Wikipedia

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. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2039836.  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. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/2/33950/01620995.pdf?arnumber=1620995. 
• 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. doi:10.1007/s10278-007-9054-3. PMC 2039836. PMID 17703338. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2039836. 
• An open source software toolkit for image-guided surgery Kevin Cleary, Luis Ibanez, David Gobbi, and Kevin Gary, DOI: 10.1117/2.1200609.0375
• Caban JJ, Joshi A, Nagy P (November 2007). "Rapid development of medical imaging tools with open-source libraries". J Digit Imaging. 20 Suppl 1 (S1): 83–93. doi:10.1007/s10278-007-9062-3. PMC 2039808. PMID 17680307. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2039808. 
• 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. 1268. pp. 473–9. doi:10.1016/j.ics.2004.03.038. 
• Cheng P, Zhang H, Kim H, Gary K, Blake MB (Sunday 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. 6141. doi:10.1117/12.660583. ISSN 1605-7422.