Processing, Visualization and Analysis of Medical Images of the Heart: An Example of Fast Prototyping Using MeVisLab

Developing and testing new algorithms for medical imaging processing can be a tiresome task as it often requires an additional set of tools to visualize the data and results and perform validation steps along the development. The integration among all these tools is also very important as it speeds all the process allowing the developer to concentrate on the real problems.This article briefly presents how MeVisLab is being used as a prototyping platform to develop a semi-automatic segmentation algorithm to extract the left ventricle from 4D MDCT images of the heart and then build a simple framework to perform a preliminary evaluation of the obtained results.