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The Insight Toolkit: An Open-Source Initiative in Data Segmentation and Registration

TERRY S. YOO,     Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, The National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

37.1 Introduction

Unlike the other visualization systems and frameworks described in this text, the Insight Toolkit (ITK) does not, by itself, perform visualization. ITK is an open-source library of software components for data segmentation and registration, supported by federal funding through the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) and available in the public domain. ITK is designed to complement visualization and user interface systems to provide advanced algorithms for filtering, ...

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