3D Medical Imaging Computation and Analysis Platform

Currently in the community of medical imaging computation and analysis, there exist several excellent toolkits for various tasks. For example, VTK (http://www.vtk.org) is the most famous visualization tool and ITK (http://www.itk.org) plays an important role in the segmentation and registration of medical images. These toolkits can assist the doctors to get the more accurate diagnosis, and help the researchers to get the more powerful capability of medical image processing. However, they are separate and style-various. Even for VTK and ITK, which are designed by the same company, users have to familiarize the two completely different coding styles. In this situation, using all of these toolkits is difficult. In this study, we will introduce 3D medical imaging computation and analysis platform (3DMed), which provides powerful functions such as image preprocessing, virtual cutting, surface rendering, volume rendering, manipulation and virtual endoscopy. The functional module description, system design and the visualization algorithm is demonstrated. The system can be widely applied to processing and analysis of CT and MR images.