Open AccessEnabling ITK-based processing and 3D Slicer MRML scene management in ParaView
Author(s) -
Andinet Enquobahrie,
Michael T. Bowers,
Luis Ibáñez,
Julien Finet,
Michel Audette,
Anthony Kolasny
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
vtk journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2328-3459
DOI - 10.54294/5anhbs
Subject(s) - plug in , visualization , computer science , software deployment , open source , software engineering , world wide web , computer graphics (images) , human–computer interaction , software , artificial intelligence , operating system
This paper documents on-going work to facilitate ITK-based processing and 3D Slicer scene management in ParaView. We believe this will broaden the use of ParaView for high performance computing and visualization in the medical imaging research community. The effort is focused on developing ParaView plug-ins for managing VTK structures from 3D Slicer MRML scenes and encapsulating ITK filters for deployment in ParaView. In this paper, we present KWScene, an open source cross-platform library that is being developed to support implementation of these types of plugins. We describe the overall design of the library and provide implementation details and conclude by presenting a concrete example that demonstrates the use of the KWScene library in computational anatomy research at Johns Hopkins Center for Imaging Science.