scholarly journals The MITK Approach

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Wolf ◽  
Marco Nolden ◽  
Thomas Boettger ◽  
Ingmar Wegner ◽  
Max Schoebinger ◽  
...  

The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) is an opensource toolkit for the development of interactive medical image analysis software. MITK is based on the open-source Insight Toolkit (ITK) and Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and extends them with features required for interactive systems. ITK is used for the algorithmic scope and general infrastructure, VTK for visualization. Key features of MITK are the coordination of multiple 2D and 3D visualizations of arbitrary data, a general interaction concept including undo/redo, and its extendibility and flexibility to create tailored applications due to its toolkit character and different layers of hidden complexity. The paper gives a brief introduction into the overall concepts and goals of the MITK approach. Suggestions and participation are welcome. MITK is available at www.mitk.org.

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xenophon Papademetris ◽  
Marcel Jackowski ◽  
Nallakkandi Rajeevan ◽  
R. Todd Constable ◽  
Lawrence Staib

BioImage Suite is an integrated image analysis software suite developed at Yale. It uses a combination of C++ and Tcl in the same fashion as that pioneered by the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and it leverages both VTK and the Insight Toolkit. It has extensive capabilities for both neuro/cardiac and abdominal image analysis and state of the art visualization. It is currently in use at Yale; a first public release is expected before the end of 2005.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xenophon Papademetris ◽  
Marcel Jackowski ◽  
Nallkkandi Rajeevan ◽  
Marcello DiStasio ◽  
Hirohito Okuda ◽  
...  

BioImage Suite is an NIH-supported medical image analysis software suite developed at Yale. It leverages both the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and it includes many additional algorithms for image analysis especially in the areas of segmentation, registration, diffusion weighted image processing and fMRI analysis. BioImage Suite has a user-friendly user interface developed in the Tcl scripting language. A final beta version is freely available for download.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xenophon Papademetris

This paper describes a new tutorial book titled “An Introduction to Programming for Medical Image Analysis with the Visualization Toolkit.” This book derived from a set of class handouts used in a biomedical engineering graduate seminar at Yale University. The goal for the seminar was to introduce the students to the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and, to a lesser extent, the Insight Toolkit (ITK). A draft version of the complete book (including all the sample code) is available online at www.bioimagesuite.org/vtkbook.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiechao Ma ◽  
Yang Song ◽  
Xi Tian ◽  
Yiting Hua ◽  
Rongguo Zhang ◽  
...  

AbstractAs a promising method in artificial intelligence, deep learning has been proven successful in several domains ranging from acoustics and images to natural language processing. With medical imaging becoming an important part of disease screening and diagnosis, deep learning-based approaches have emerged as powerful techniques in medical image areas. In this process, feature representations are learned directly and automatically from data, leading to remarkable breakthroughs in the medical field. Deep learning has been widely applied in medical imaging for improved image analysis. This paper reviews the major deep learning techniques in this time of rapid evolution and summarizes some of its key contributions and state-of-the-art outcomes. The topics include classification, detection, and segmentation tasks on medical image analysis with respect to pulmonary medical images, datasets, and benchmarks. A comprehensive overview of these methods implemented on various lung diseases consisting of pulmonary nodule diseases, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, and interstitial lung disease is also provided. Lastly, the application of deep learning techniques to the medical image and an analysis of their future challenges and potential directions are discussed.


2017 ◽  
pp. 36-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Narasimhamurthy

Medical image analysis is an area which has witnessed an increased use of machine learning in recent times. In this chapter, the authors attempt to provide an overview of applications of machine learning techniques to medical imaging problems, focusing on some of the recent work. The target audience comprises of practitioners, engineers, students and researchers working on medical image analysis, no prior knowledge of machine learning is assumed. Although the stress is mostly on medical imaging problems, applications of machine learning to other proximal areas will also be elucidated briefly. Health informatics is a relatively new area which deals with mining large amounts of data to gain useful insights. Some of the common challenges in health informatics will be briefly touched upon and some of the efforts in related directions will be outlined.


2019 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 428-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. El ogri ◽  
A. Daoui ◽  
M. Yamni ◽  
H. Karmouni ◽  
M. Sayyouri ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 156-167
Author(s):  
Chetanpal Singh

Deep learning has played a potential role in quality healthcare with fast automated and proper medical image analysis. In clinical applications, medical imaging is one of the most important parameters as with the help of this; experts can detect, monitor, and diagnose any kind of problems that are there in the patient's body. However, there are two things that one needs to understand; that is, the implementation of Artificial Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks as well as deep learning to know about medical image analysis. It is necessary to state here that the deep learning approach is gaining attention in the medical imaging field in evaluating the presence or absence of disease in a patient. Mammography images, digital histopathology images, computerized tomography, etc. are some of the areas on which DL implementation focuses. One upon going through the paper will get to know the recent development that has occurred in this field and come up with a critical review on this aspect. The paper has demonstrated in detail modern deep learning models that are implemented in medical image analysis. There is no doubt about the promising future of the deep learning models and according to experts; the implementation of deep learning techniques has outperformed medical experts in numerous tasks. However, deep learning also has some drawbacks and challenges that are required to be addressed like limited datasets and many more. To mitigate such kinds of challenges, researchers are working on this aspect so that they can enhance healthcare by deploying AI.


Author(s):  
R. Udendhran ◽  
Balamurugan M.

The recent growth of big data has ushered in a new era of deep learning algorithms in every sphere of technological advance, including medicine, as well as in medical imaging, particularly radiology. However, the recent achievements of deep learning, in particular biomedical applications, have, to some extent, masked decades-long developments in computational technology for medical image analysis. The methods of multi-modality medical imaging have been implemented in clinical as well as research studies. Due to the reason that multi-modal image analysis and deep learning algorithms have seen fast development and provide certain benefits to biomedical applications, this chapter presents the importance of deep learning-driven medical imaging applications, future advancements, and techniques to enhance biomedical applications by employing deep learning.


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