MITK (Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit) is a C++ toolkit and application framework for developing interactive medical image processing software.
It combines ITK and VTK with its own application framework, giving developers a foundation for building research prototypes, custom imaging tools, and extensible medical image computing applications.
The project also provides MITK Workbench, a ready-to-use application for viewing, processing, segmenting, and registering medical image data. It’s designed for workflows involving multimodal medical images such as CT, MRI, PET, and DICOM data, with interactive 2D, 3D, and 4D visualization tools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides MITK Workbench, an application for medical image visualization, segmentation, registration, and analysis.
- Loads and overlays multimodal imaging data including CT, MRI, PET, and other DICOM modalities.
- Offers interactive slice views, 3D visualization, 4D rendering, and volume rendering.
- Includes semi-automatic and interactive segmentation tools for delineating anatomical structures.
- Supports rigid and deformable image registration for aligning images from different modalities or time points.
- Uses a plugin system for extending MITK Workbench with custom clinical or research functionality.
- Can be used as a modular C++ framework for developing custom medical image computing applications.
- Officially supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/MITK/MITK
Support:
Developer: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
License: BSD 3-Clause License
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