scholarly journals IGSTK: Development Process and Project Management Best Practices for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Gary ◽  
Brian Blake ◽  
Stephen Aylward ◽  
Julien Jomier ◽  
David Gobbi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided ◽  
Concurrent Development

Open source technologies are increasing in popularity for software development. Many open source projects rely on skilled development teams whose members are distributed throughout the world. Often, agile development methods are employed by these teams, as the focus is on concurrent development and fast production over requirements management and quality assurance. The image-guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK) is an open source development project that relies on the collaboration of a skilled and distributed development team, yet addresses a domain that demands managing requirements as well as implementing a high degree of robustness and addressing safety concerns. Due to this unique cross-section of open source technology and the surgical domain, the IGSTK team has developed a set of best practices and requirements techniques to augment commonly applied agile methods. This paper presents the lessons we have learned as we have engaged in the software development process.

The Image-Guided Surgery ToolKit IGSTK: an open source C++ software toolkit

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Cheng ◽  
Luis Ibanez ◽  
David Gobbi ◽  
Kevin Gary ◽  
Stephen Aylward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Software Toolkit ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided

scholarly journals The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit IGSTK: An Open Source C++ Software Toolkit

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (S1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andinet Enquobahrie ◽  
Patrick Cheng ◽  
Kevin Gary ◽  
Luis Ibanez ◽  
David Gobbi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Software Toolkit ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided

scholarly journals IGSTK: Building High Quality Roads with Open Source Software

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Ibanez ◽  
Andinet Enquobahrie ◽  
Matt Turek ◽  
Julien Jomier ◽  
Rick Avila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Position Statement ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Software Project ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided ◽  
Visualization Toolkit

This paper is a position statement on the benefits that an Open Source toolkit can bring to the field of image guided surgery. The particular example discussed here is the IGSTK toolkit. IGSTK is an open source software project designed for supporting the development of image guided surgery software applications. It provides functionalities for interfacing with optical and electromagnetic trackers, reading and visualizing DICOM datasets, as well as loading and displaying geometrical models resulting from image segmentation. These functionalities are enveloped by a simplified API implemented in a layer designed with emphasis on patient safety. The Toolkit is designed to ease the development of IGS applications, providing the basic functionalities related to the management of basic components. IGSTK is based on the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), and can be combined with GUI toolkits such as FLTK and Qt. The IGSTK toolkit is distributed under a BSD license. Enter the names of any sponsors and/or funding codes in the box below.

scholarly journals Integrating Scrum development process with UX design flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2630-2636
Author(s):  
Nora Khaled Al Ghanmi ◽  
Nor Shahida Mohd Jamail
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Integration ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Ux Design

Nowadays, Agile software development practices are being widely adapted all over the world. Scrum is one of the most known Agile models, it satisfies the business needs and put the main focus on the product. One common challenge for the development of customer-facing products is having a good user experience. This paper presents integrating Scrum development process with user experience design flow. In this study, papers relating to the topic of user experience (UX) process integration with Agile development process, how to measure it and how to improve it, from the year 2010 onwards are reviewed. This is to identify how organizations can integrate UX design flow and Scrum development and get the benefits of both. The conducted review identifies a number of limitations in the existing integrations efforts. A proposed process model to resolve these limitations is presented. Along with our experience in implementing it on an ongoing software development project. The results of applying this process, its impact on the project outcomes quality and the employees’ satisfaction with the process are discussed. The goal of this study is to aid organizations in integrating UX design into their development process. 

IGSTK: Framework and example application using an open source toolkit for image-guided surgery applications

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Cheng ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Hee-su Kim ◽  
Kevin Gary ◽  
M. Brian Blake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided

IGSTK: An Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery

Computer ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Gary ◽  
L. Ibanez ◽  
S. Aylward ◽  
D. Gobbi ◽  
M.B. Blake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Software Toolkit ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided

Integration of a real-time video grabber component with the open source image-guided surgery toolkit IGSTK

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Vegard Solberg ◽  
Geir-Arne Tangen ◽  
Frank Lindseth ◽  
Torleif Sandnes ◽  
Andinet A. Enquobahrie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Source Image ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided

scholarly journals IGSTK: A State Machine Architecture for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Ibanez ◽  
Julien Jomier ◽  
David Gobbi ◽  
Rick Avila ◽  
M. brian Blake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
State Machine ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Toolkit ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided

The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) is an Open Source software project being developed under NIH/NIBIB funding. The toolkit will provide a common platform for implementing image-guided surgery applications and for fostering research in the field. The toolkit is based on several other open source toolkits including ITK, VTK and FLTK. Its architecture is based on the use of medium size classes, each one of them containing an explicit State Machine and a minimized API that enforces fault tolerance by design. This paper describes the architecture and its rationale.

scholarly journals Robot Assisted Needle Placement: Application developed using an open source image guided surgery toolkit (IGSTK)

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Cheng ◽  
Andinet Enquobahrie ◽  
Roland Stenzel ◽  
Ralph Lin ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Image Guided Surgery ◽  
Source Image ◽  
Needle Placement ◽  
Target Drug Delivery ◽  
Guided Surgery ◽  
Image Guided ◽  
Clinical Procedures ◽  
Target Drug

Using a robot system to position needles or needle shaped tools during clinical procedures such as biopsy, radio frequency ablation, and target drug delivery has a great potentials in increasing accuracy and speed of the process, and minimizing trauma to patient. This paper describes a robot assist needle placement system developed using Image Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK). IGSTK is an open source software toolkit aimed at providing a robust and safe platform for researchers and clinicians for fast prototyping of image guided applications with minimum cost and effort

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