[Insight-developers] Fwd: ITKv4 & V3D Plugins

[Luis Ibanez]

posted on the Kitware Blog at http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/51

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Following the initiative of improving ITK's support for Microscopy
applications <http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Microscopy> that we
outlined in a previous post <http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/50>,
we have been developing ITK
plugins<http://github.com/luisibanez/ITK-V3D-Plugins>for the V3D
application <http://penglab.janelia.org/proj/v3d>.

V3D <http://penglab.janelia.org/proj/v3d> is an application for
visualization and analysis of biomedical images developed by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute <http://www.hhmi.org/> at the Janelia Farm campus
http://penglab.janelia.org/proj/v3d.


It is cross platform (Linux, Mac and Windows) and it is typically used in:

   - Cell segmentation
   - Neuron tracing
   - Brain registration
   - Annotation
   - Quantitative measurement and statistics
   - Data management


Other V3D resources are hosted at NITRC http://www.nitrc.org/projects/v3d/

These new ITK plugins are, of course, Open
Source<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw>,
and are available under an Apache 2.0 License
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php>at the github repository:
ITK-V3D-Plugins <http://github.com/luisibanez/ITK-V3D-Plugins>.

The ITK plugins for V3D cover, among others, the following functionalities

   - Intensity Transformations
   - Mathematical Morphology
   - Level Set segmentation
   - Region Growing segmentation
   - Label Map processing
   - Rigid and Affine Registration
   - Demons Deformable Registration
   - Object counting and measurement statistics
   - Distance maps
   - Statistical Classifications
   - Edge Detection
   - Watersheds
   - Smoothing
   - Arithmetic operations
   - Binary operations


The development of ITK plugins for V3D serves two purposes


   - Exposing ITK functionalities to researches who analyze microscopy data
   - Uncovering the areas in which ITK requires improvements in order to
   better serve the microscopy community.


Both of them are of particular interest for the development of
ITKv4<http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4.0>
.


We welcome your feedback on the implementation and usability of these
plugins, and of course, encourage you to join the development
team<http://www.nitrc.org/forum/?group_id=379>if you have an interest
in microscopy image analysis.
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