IGSTK User Group Meeting
The 3rd User Group Meeting for the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) [I-G-stick] was held before the SPIE conference in Orlando. "IGSTK is an Open Source software toolkit designed to enable biomedical researchers to rapidly prototype and create new applications for image-guided surgery. This toolkit provides functionalities that are commonly needed when implementing image-guided surgery applications, such as integration with optical and electromagnetic trackers, manipulation and visualization of DICOM datasets":
- a method for registration of the preoperative image to the physical space of the patient,
- tracking for intra-operative localization of instruments,
- user interface that displays images and the position of instruments,
- a workstation that runs and connects the applications.
The meeting was run by Kevin Cleary, and besides, a lot of the users gave a brief intro from neuro to brachy and pediatric applications. The presentations are available at the event's site.
You can learn more about IGSTK at its wiki.
If you are interested in getting more involved in the development of IGSTK, apply for the open positions!
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