[Insight-developers] Fwd: [vtkusers] VTK CISG Registration Toolkit v1.0 prerelease

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Folks-

Some competition and maybe some ideas for the registration folks :-) I had no idea this was in the works, although 4-5 years ago I gave a VTK talk at this University. This is what happens in the open source world once the tool mainly works, is stable, and compiles without errors (hint).

Will


>                  Computational Imaging Science Group 
>                 Prof. D.J. Hawkes and Dr. D.L.G. Hill 
>                  Guy's Hopital, King's College London
>                    http://www-ipg.umds.ac.uk/cisg
>                             present the 
>
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>                    VTK CISG Registration Toolkit 
>
>                     PRERELEASE of version 1.0
>
>            for medical single- and multimodal 3D images
>                 http://www.image-registration.com
>*******************************************************************
>written by T. Hartkens based on code by D. Rueckert and J. Schnabel
>
>
>This software package provides two voxel-based image registration
>algorithms on the basis of Normalised Mutual Information (NMI) which are
>incorporated in a user-friendly command-line and graphical interface
>including a visualisation tool for 3D image pairs in order to analyse
>registration results. This software is implemented using the free and 
>widely-used visualisation software VTK by Kitware (Visualization Toolkit;
>http://www.kitware.com) a powerful visualisation pipeline for interactive 
>image display. VTK needs to be installed before the VTK CISG Registration 
>Toolkit can be used.
>
>Voxel-based image registration using Normalised Mutual Information (NMI)
>has been shown to register  single- and multi-modal 3D images accurately
>without any user interaction [1][2].  Our group has proposed both an affine
>and a non-rigid registration algorithm based on NMI, and has validated
>these algorithms on range of medical applications like brain, breast, and
>cardiac data [3,4,5].
>
>We present a publicly available open-source software package that
>incorporates these algorithms in a user-friendly command-line and graphical
>interface including a visualisation tool for 3D image pairs in order to
>analyse registration results. Beside the pure usage of registration
>algorithms,  the software can be easily adjusted to specific enviroments
>(e.g. including other image file formats) and can be modified for specific
>applications.
>
>The version 1.0 (prerelease) of the VTK CISG Registration Toolkit can be
>now downloaded for free on 
>
>http://www.image-registration.com
>
>Note, this is a PRERELEASE of version 1.0. Though we have tested the
>software carefully, there might be still serious bugs in it. Be aware about
>this, when you are using the package! Furthermore the documentation is 
>still under development. If you find any bugs in the source code or any 
>errors in the documentation we would appreciate any feedback to
>thomas.hartkens@kcl.ac.uk .
>
>
>The VTK CISG Registration Toolkit  is free software; you can redistribute 
>it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 
>as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 
>License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>GNU General Public License for more details.
>
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Thomas Hartkens 
>
>
>
>References:
>[1] J. West et al. "Comparison and evaluation of retrospective
>    intermodality brain image registration techniques", JCAT, vol. 21, No 4.,
>    pp 554-566, 1997
> 
>[2] Holden M, Hill DLG, Denton ERE, Jarosz JM, Cox TCS, Goody J, Rohlfing T,
>    Hawkes DJ. Voxel similarity measures for 3D serial MR image registration
>    IEEE trans Med. Imag. 19(2):94-102 2000
> 
>[3] Studholme C, Hill DLG, Hawkes DJ (1999) "An overlap invariant entropy
>    measure of 3D medical image alignment". Pattern Recognition 32, 71-86.
> 
>[4] Rueckert D, Sonoda LI, Hayes C, Hill DLG, Leach MO, Hawkes DJ.
>    "Non-rigid Registration using Free-Form Deformations: Application to
>    Breast MR Images" IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 18,
>    NO. 8: 712-721, August 1999
> 
>[5] JA Schnabel et al., Validation of non-rigid registration using Finite
>    Element Methods. Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI'01),
>    LNCS 2082:344-357, Springer Verlag, 2001
>
>
>
>
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>                           Thomas Hartkens 
>     Division of Radiological Sciences and Medical Engineering
>          Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine
>                    Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT 
>
>       tel: +44 20 7955 2721        fax: +44 20 7955 4532
>    mobile: +44 7967 323595
>     email: thomas.hartkens@kcl.ac.uk , thomas@hartkens.de
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