OpenIGTLink/ProtocolV2/Summary

Overview

The OpenIGTLink Protocol is ideal for building a research prototype system, because of its simple and standardized specification that requires less effort of developers on design and development of communication mechanism for systems integration. By using OpenIGTLink, developers can save their time for more essential part of research. The OpenIGTLink's simple specification has been well accepted by the community, resulting a number of applications in the IGT research community, since it's initial release in early 2008. However, there have also been several emerging applications that requires some additional features to the OpenIGTLink protocol, e.g. connectivity with commercial software and device products.