VTK for Medical Imaging Training

Objectives

1. Integrate advanced volume rendering in a 3D view
2. Integrate axis-aligned and oblique MPR views in your application.
3. Get an overview of the main features to render, annotate, segment and register medical data.

Prerequisites

• C++: Good knowledge
• VTK: Basic knowledge of data model and processing and rendering pipeline usage

Program

• Image and Image I/O
  • vtkImageData data model quick reminder
  • Readers and writers for medical images
  • vtkDICOM external module
• Volume Rendering
  • Volume mappers rendering parameters
  • Color/Opacity transfer function
  • Multi-Volume rendering (overview)
• Image Viewers
  • Render an image slice in a 3D view
  • Render an image slice in a 2D view
  • MPR: Reslice an image in vtkResliceImageViewer
• Widgets and actors for medical image processing
• Segmentation
  • Tools for manual segmentation
  • Surface to image and image to surface conversion
  • Extract surface contour from pixel values (isosurfaces)
• Registration
  • Compare registered images (checkerboard, image difference)
  • Transform images
  • ITK/VTK bridge
  • Mesh to mesh registration with Iterative Closest Point (ICP)
• Miscellaneous
  • Brief presentation of medical imaging frameworks and tools (Slicer, Volview, MONAI…)

This training course will be taught in English. Course notes are also in English.
Participants are asked to bring a laptop computer for this training session.
The instructor will communicate all the specifications required to each participants before the training session.

Lunch is included.

Kitware SAS is registered as a training center in France