[vtkusers] A general advice for design stage of a new project

[Julien Finet]

Hi,

An advice would be:
  do not start your project from scratch (except if you intend to use a new
(revolutionary) technology).

There are many opensource (BSD like ) ITK and VTK based frameworks you can
start from. The most popular/advanced allow you to extend them and
sometimes to customize and redesign the entire front end GUI while reusing
the internals.

Here are some of those ITK/VTK frameworks: 3D Slicer, ParaView, VolView,
MITK, GIMIAS, MAF...

Each framework has pros and cons, you probably need to review each of them
(and/or contact their mailing lists) to find the one that is closest to you
needs. You can also use http://www.ohloh.net to see how advanced, popular
and active each project is.

Note also the resourceful webinar:  Building Qt-enabled VTK
applications<http://vimeo.com/64823685>


Hth,
Julien.



On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:55 AM, chasank <chasank at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This question is a bit abstract (actually completely), so please bear with
> us. We have been using VTK/ITK for 3 months. We will begin to implement a
> big medical project, and now we are at the design stage (writing use cases,
> designing UML diagrams, etc). However, because of lack of experience in
> VTK/ITK project, we cannot foresee what classes we will need to use in our
> project. Which precautions do we need to take so that we will not have to
> change initial design dramatically?
>
> For example, in one of our former projects we coded a small medical
> application which allows users to display dicom/nifti image data for
> 3-planes (sagittal, coronal, axial) and to select a dynamic roi with seed
> region grow filter. But after that, we needed to add oblique slicing
> feature
> to this project and we had to code from scratch. We do not want to have
> this
> struggle in the future again. Do you have any advice for us based on your
> precious experiences?
>
>
>
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