2011 Winter Project Week:OpenIGTLink
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Key Investigators
- Junichi Tokuda
- Nobuhiko Hata
Objective
- Release OpenIGTLink Library version 2 beta
- Review the protocol version 2
- Class implementation
- CTest
- Part of Engineering effort in NCIGT Computational Core
Approach, Plan
We will finalize drafting OpenIGTLink version 2 protocol and implementation of version 2 library.
- The header format will not be changed.
- Simple querying mechanism is defined. See querying mechanism in version 2.
- The protocol version 2 continue to focus on message formats. Supporting tools (simulators and interfaces for specific applications e.g. 3D Slicer, Matlab) and transportation layer (use of UDP or other network communication middleware) should be discussed separately.
The draft of the protocol is available at OpenIGTLink protocol version 2 draft page.
Progress
We worked on C-implementation of the following message types:
- SENSOR
- STRING
- NDARRAY
- BIND
- POLYDATA
References
- Tokuda J, Fischer GS, Papademetris X, Yaniv Z, Ibanez L, Cheng P, Liu H, Blevins J, Arata J, Golby A, Kapur T, Pieper S, Burdette EC, Fichtinger G, Tempany CM, Hata N, OpenIGTLink: An Open Network Protocol for Image-Guided Therapy Environment, Int J Med Robot Comput Assist Surg, 2009