ItkSoftwareGuide-2.4.0

ItkSoftwareGuide-2.4.0,ITK的用户手册

The ITK Software Guide Second Edition Updated for ITK version 2.4

´ Luis Ibanez Will Schroeder Lydia Ng Josh Cates and the Insight Software Consortium

November 21, 2005

http://doc.guandang.net Email: insight-users@http://doc.guandang.net

ItkSoftwareGuide-2.4.0,ITK的用户手册

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ThepurposeofcomputingisInsight,notnumbers.

RichardHamming

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Abstract

TheInsightToolkit(ITK)isanopen-sourcesoftwaretoolkitforperformingregistrationandsegmentation.Segmentationistheprocessofidentifyingandclassifyingdatafoundinadigi-tallysampledrepresentation.TypicallythesampledrepresentationisanimageacquiredfromsuchmedicalinstrumentationasCTorMRIscanners.Registrationisthetaskofaligningorde-velopingcorrespondencesbetweendata.Forexample,inthemedicalenvironment,aCTscanmaybealignedwithaMRIscaninordertocombinetheinformationcontainedinboth.

ITKisimplementedinC++.Itiscross-platform,usingabuildenvironmentknownasCMaketomanagethecompilationprocessinaplatform-independentway.Inaddition,anautomatedwrappingprocess(Cable)generatesinterfacesbetweenC++andinterpretedprogramminglan-guagessuchasTcl,Java,andPython.Thisenablesdeveloperstocreatesoftwareusingavarietyofprogramminglanguages.ITK’sC++implementationstyleisreferredtoasgenericprogram-ming,whichistosaythatitusestemplatessothatthesamecodecanbeappliedgenericallytoanyclassortypethathappenstosupporttheoperationsused.SuchC++templatingmeansthatthecodeishighlyef cient,andthatmanysoftwareproblemsarediscoveredatcompile-time,ratherthanatrun-timeduringprogramexecution.

BecauseITKisanopen-sourceproject,developersfromaroundtheworldcanuse,debug,main-tain,http://doc.guandang.netmunicationamongthemembersoftheITKcommunityiswhathelpsmanagetherapidevolutionofthesoftware.Testingiswhatkeepsthesoftwarestable.InITK,anextensivetestingprocess(usingasystemknownasDart)isinplacethatmeasuresthequalityonadailybasis.TheITKTestingDashboardispostedcontinuously,re ectingthequalityofthesoftwareatanymoment.

ThisbookisaguidetousinganddevelopingwithITK.Thesamplecodeinthedirectorypro-videsacompaniontothematerialpresentedhere.Themostrecentversionofthisdocumentisavailableonlineathttp://doc.guandang.net/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf.

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Contributors

TheInsightToolkit(ITK)hasbeencreatedbytheeffortsofmanytalentedinpidualsandprestigiousorganizations.ItisalsodueingreatparttothevisionoftheprogramestablishedbyDr.TerryYooandDr.MichaelAckermanattheNationalLibraryofMedicine.

Thisbooklistsafewofthesecontributorsinthefollowingparagraphs.NotalldevelopersofITKarecreditedhere,sopleasevisittheWebpagesathttp://doc.guandang.net/HTML/About.htmforthenamesofadditionalcontributors,aswellascheckingtheCVSsourcelogsforcodecontributions.

Thefollowingisabriefdescriptionofthecontributorstothissoftwareguideandtheircontri-butions.

isprincipalauthorofthistext.Heassistedinthedesignandlayoutofthetext,LuisIb´anez

AimplementedthebulkoftheLTEXandCMakebuildprocess,andwasresponsibleforthebulk

ofthecontent.HealsodevelopedmostoftheexamplecodefoundintheInsight/Examplesdirectory.

WillSchroederhelpeddesignandestablishtheorganizationofthistextandtheInsight/Examplesdirectory.Heisprincipalcontenteditor,andhasauthoredseveralchap-ters.

LydiaNgauthoredthedescriptionfortheregistrationframeworkanditscomponents,thesec-tiononthemultiresolutionframework,andthesectionondeformableregistrationmethods.Shealsoeditedthesectionontheresamplingimage lterandthesectionsonvariouslevelsetsegmentationalgorithms.

JoshuaCatesauthoredtheiteratorschapterandthetextandexamplesdescribingwatershedsegmentation.Healsoco-authoredthelevel-setsegmentationmaterial.

JisungKimauthoredthechapteronthestatisticsframework.

JulienJomiercontributedthechapteronspatialobjectsandexamplesonmodel-basedregis-trationusingspatialobjects.

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CONTENTS

IIntroduction

1Welcome

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1.3Organization.........................................HowtoLearnITK......................................SoftwareOrganization....................................

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9DownloadingITK......................................1.4.11.4.21.4.31.4.41.4.51.4.6DownloadingPackagedReleases..........................DownloadingfromCVS..............................JointheMailingList................................DirectoryStructure.................................Documentation...................................Data.........................................

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1.6TheInsightCommunityandSupport............................10ABriefHistoryofITK....................................10

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2.1Con guringITK.......................................13

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2.1.2PreparingCMake..................................14Con guringITK..................................15

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