2009 Winter Project Week Slicer VMTK

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Key Investigators

• Daniel Haehn (Student of Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg)
• Luca Antiga, PhD (Medical Imaging Unit, Biomedical Engineering Department, Mario Negri Institute)

Objective

The Vascular Modeling Toolkit (VMTK) is a collection of libraries and tools for 3D reconstruction, geometric analysis, mesh generation and surface data analysis for image-based modeling of blood vessels. It should be very interesting to offer such techniques in Slicer3.

Approach, Plan

VMTK provides Python pipeable scripts (PypeS) to connect various commands and/or scripts. The plan is to make a python scripted module for Slicer3 that connects to VMTK pipes and provides the same user interaction style you find in VMTK.

Progress

For preparation:
- ground work for making an interactive python scripted module
- playing with VMTK pypes to generate some CLI VMTK scripts