[Insight-users] Experts Opinion

[Dženan Zukić]

You are right about no drag and drop for VTK. However, most of us use Qt
for UI - it combines quite well with VTK. If you are familiar with Qt it is
easy. If you are not, stick with what you know.

2012/3/14 Santhosh Ramankutty <arsanthosh at gmail.com>

> Hello Dženan,
>
> Thank you for your response. I will consider your points. Right now I am
> more inclined towards creating UI using WPF SlimDX. Because creating UI
> will be much faster I believe. But I am planning to try ITK+VTK also to see
> its advantages, from my understanding VTK UI development will be more time
> consuming, due to learning curve and there is no drag and drop options to
> create the UI. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Santhosh.
> 2012/3/13 Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com>
>
>> ITK relies on GDCM<http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/software/public/Gdcm/Main.html>to read DICOM files. Instead of ITK, you could use GDCM directly.
>>
>> Unless you need something other than 2D and 3D visualization (such as
>> audio, video playback etc), I would go with ITK+VTK. There is some
>> redundancy and an occasional problem, but they cooperate easier than, let's
>> say, ITK+OSG.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 17:15, Santhosh Ramankutty <arsanthosh at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a newbie to ITK. I am in the research phase to decide on what
>>> technologies to use for my requirements.
>>> Hope this is a correct place to ask these questions, if not please let
>>> me know a correct forum to ask these questions.
>>>
>>> My requirement is:
>>> 1. Read Dicom files
>>> 2. Display Dicom image/series in an UI
>>> 3. Customizable UI to use the Dicom images and get input from UI. Save
>>> the UI settings etc.
>>> 4. Software is for Windows OS, preferably for other OS's also,
>>>
>>> To do the above requirements, I found following ways that are possible:
>>> 1. SlimDX and ITK
>>> 2. VTK and ITK
>>>
>>> My question is:
>>> Can I use SlimDX API's to display Dicom images without ITK? or I have to
>>> use ITK to get the Dicom info. From my understanding Dicom can be read
>>> using ITK only, am I correct?
>>> Which is better VTK and ITK or SlimDX and ITK, or there is a better
>>> option than this?
>>> Are there any resources in the web that can help me make a good decision?
>>>
>>> Your advise on this is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Santhosh.
>>>
>>>
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