[Insight-users] Difference between ITK and VTK

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Jayme


VTK is a visualization toolkit

ITK is a toolkit for medical image processing


There is some small overlap between the two toolkits.
E.g. both will have a canny edge detector, and a gaussian
smoothing filter.


In practice you usually want to use them together in
a full application.


For a description of ITK and VTK, please look at the
Tutorials


     http://www.itk.org/HTML/Tutorials.htm


in particular to


"Getting Started with ITK and VTK"
http://www.itk.org/CourseWare/Training/GettingStarted-II.pdf



    Regards,


       Luis


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Jayme Kosior wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> What is the fundamental difference between ITK and VTK?
> 
> It seems like you could implement image processing algorithms using the 
> pipeline structure in both.  What makes them different?  Is one better 
> at certain types of image processing operations than the other?
> 
> I'm thinking more in terms of writing say a custom image filter.  Say 
> that this filter enhances the image quality somehow.  You would want to 
> process the image data using the filter, and then display the filtered 
> data.
> 
> Would it be better to use the ITK or the VTK framework to implement the 
> filter algorithm?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Jayme
> 
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