TY  - JOUR
AU  - Klemm, Martin
AU  - Kirchner, Thomas
AU  - Gröhl, Janek
AU  - Cheray, Dominique
AU  - Nolden, Marco
AU  - Seitel, Alexander
AU  - Hoppe, Harald
AU  - Maier-Hein, Lena
AU  - Franz, Alfred
TI  - MITK-OpenIGTLink for combining open-source toolkits in real-time computer-assisted interventions.
JO  - International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
SN  - 1861-6429
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer
M1  - DKFZ-2017-01249
SP  - 351 - 361
PY  - 2017
AB  - Due to rapid developments in the research areas of medical imaging, medical image processing and robotics, computer-assisted interventions (CAI) are becoming an integral part of modern patient care. From a software engineering point of view, these systems are highly complex and research can benefit greatly from reusing software components. This is supported by a number of open-source toolkits for medical imaging and CAI such as the medical imaging interaction toolkit (MITK), the public software library for ultrasound imaging research (PLUS) and 3D Slicer. An independent inter-toolkit communication such as the open image-guided therapy link (OpenIGTLink) can be used to combine the advantages of these toolkits and enable an easier realization of a clinical CAI workflow.MITK-OpenIGTLink is presented as a network interface within MITK that allows easy to use, asynchronous two-way messaging between MITK and clinical devices or other toolkits. Performance and interoperability tests with MITK-OpenIGTLink were carried out considering the whole CAI workflow from data acquisition over processing to visualization.We present how MITK-OpenIGTLink can be applied in different usage scenarios. In performance tests, tracking data were transmitted with a frame rate of up to 1000 Hz and a latency of 2.81 ms. Transmission of images with typical ultrasound (US) and greyscale high-definition (HD) resolutions of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is possible at up to 512 and 128 Hz, respectively.With the integration of OpenIGTLink into MITK, this protocol is now supported by all established open-source toolkits in the field. This eases interoperability between MITK and toolkits such as PLUS or 3D Slicer and facilitates cross-toolkit research collaborations. MITK and its submodule MITK-OpenIGTLink are provided open source under a BSD-style licence ( http://mitk.org ).
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:27687984
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s11548-016-1488-y
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/124370
ER  -