IGSTK- The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit

IGSTK is a high-level, component-based framework providing a common functionality for image-guided surgery applications. Based on ITK and VTK, with GUI- and API-level access.The framework is a set of high-level components integrated with low-level open source software libraries and application programming interfaces.

IGSTK provides the ability to read and display medical images, including CT and MRI in DICOM format; an interface to common tracking hardware; a GUI and visualization capabilities, including four-quadrant view (axial, sagittal, coronal, and 3D) and multi-slice axial view; point based registration; and robust common internal software services for logging, exception-handling and problem resolution.