OpenIGTLink/Approaches
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Three Approaches
Implement by yourself
- Writing applications in non-C/C++ languages
- The protocol is defined in the protocol description page.
Use simple C code (igtlutil)
- The code provides C structures for the generic header, image header and transform header, and supporting functions to create a message packet.
- Suitable for applications written in C and C++
- You can just copy the files into your source directory. You never have library link issue.
Use the Open IGT Link Library
- The library supports
- Classes to create Open IGT Link message
- TCP/IP Socket
- Thread and Mutex useful to make server program
- The library instruction is available in the Open IGT Link Library page.
| Features | From scratch | igtlutil | Open IGT Link Library |
| Slicer | 587,919 | 161 | $16,068,440 |
| Package | 189,627 | 49 | $ 4,925,590 |
| 1,344,989 | 385 | $38,521,873 | |
| ITK | 711,474 | 197 | $19,712,495 |
| CMAKE | 213,671 | 56 | $ 5,586,895 |
| Total | 3,047,680 | 848 | $84,815,293 |
