[vtkusers] Creating a GUI based project for VTK and ITK

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Ashef,

To complement Aron answer, if you would like to support distribution of
your code and leverage existing segmentation and visualization
capabilities, you could consider creating 3D Slicer plugin in either C++ or
Python. 3D Slicer is a medical imaging application built on top of ITK,
VTK, Qt and Python. See https://www.slicer.org/ and
https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Training

There is also an active forum where you can ask question:
http://discourse.slicer.org/

Doing so, you could leverage a proven and robust platform built on top of
mature libraries.

More specifically, if you already have processing code you could create a
command line module
<https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Modules>
implementing the Slicer Execution Model interface (basically an executable
describing itself by passing the --xml parameter), that way you could have
Slicer discover it, generate its UI and expose the processing capabilities
to users.

To illustrate, here are example of segmentation and visualization
capabilities:

 Whole heart segmentation from cardiac CT in 10 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJoIexIvtGo
 Creating femur model from CT volume using 3D Slicer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0at15gjk-Ns
 How to segment multiple vertebrae in spine CT for 3D printing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uht6Fwtr9hE
 Quick manual segmentation with contour interpolation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93kI1MG6Ic

Let me know if you have questions,
Jc


On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:42 AM Aron Helser <aron.helser at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Ashef,
> VTK and ITK do not provide any prescribed way to do a GUI - there are
> hundreds of choices you could use, and they would all work. For instance,
> ParaView is built on VTK, and uses QT for it's GUI. You could also build a
> gui in Python, perhaps using wxWidgets python bindings.
> Since you are working with DICOM, instead you may want to look at 3D
> Slicer (https://www.slicer.org/) which is an open-source medical
> visualization app that uses VTK and ITK. You may be able to write a plugin
> for it which does what you want, and take advantage of all it's other
> features.
>
> The best choice may be something that you are familiar with, or something
> that you can get help with!
> Good luck,
> Aron
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Ashef Shahrior <ashahrior.91994 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have done some basic work with DICOM file segmentation and
>> visualization using ITK and VTK in C++. I have built it with CMAKE and
>> Visual Studio and run it with command prompt (Windows 10). But now I wish
>> to make a Graphical User Interface for this so that I can give it more of a
>> project look. How can I do this? Please, help. Thank you.
>>
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