Comparison of four freely available frameworks for image processing and visualization that use ITK

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 483-493

  Bitter, Ingmar ^a,b   Van Uitert, Robert ^a,c   Wolf, Ivo ^d   Ibáñez, Luis ^a,e   Kuhnigk, Jan Martin ^f  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b Claron Technology Inc   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e KITWARE INC   (United States)

^f FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparison; Evaluation; Image processing; User interface; Visualization framework

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION PARAMETERS; MEDICAL INTERACTION TOOLKIT (MITK); MEVISLAB; VISUALIZATION FRAMEWORK; VOLVIEW;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33947582475     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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