Reliable software is a critical component of image-guided surgical applications, yet costly expertise and technology infrastructure barriers hamper current research and commercialization efforts. The Image-Guided Software Toolkit applies open source methods to provide a safe, inexpensive, and reusable infrastructure.
Index Terms:
Clinical software engineering, Medical software, Healthcare technology, Open source software, IGSTK
Citation:
Kevin Gary, Luis Ib??, Stephen Aylward, David Gobbi, M. Brian Blake, Keven Cleary, "IGSTK: An Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery," Computer, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 46-53, Apr. 2006, doi:10.1109/MC.2006.130