[Insight-users] Need some advise

[Nuno Barros]

Hi Luis,

I'll do as you say and maybe I'll try MITK or CTK later.

Thanks

2011/2/21 Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>

> Hi Nuno,
>
> There are certainly multiple options here,
>
> So, let me suggest one of them only:
>
>
> 1) Combine ITK, VTK and Qt
>
>
> 2) Use them all at the C++ level
>
>
> 3) Use CMake for configuring them together
>    (don't generate project from QtCreator, nor VStudio
>     CMake can do this cleaner for you, and in a format
>     that you can put in revision control (CVS/SVN/Git) )
>
>
> 4) If you need DICOM, ITK provides it via GDCM.
>    If you need Query/Retrive, ITKv4 will have it by September.
>    otherwise you should go with DCMTK
>
>
> 5) Should you pick DCMTK, then you should look at CTK
>
>      http://www.commontk.org/index.php/Main_Page
>
>     This library already combines VTK, Qt and DCMTK
>
>      (I believe the MITK developers are also collaborating in CTK).
>
>
> 6)  Stay away from Tcl if you can.    :-)
>
>
>
>     Luis
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Nuno Barros <nunopbarros at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I need some advise.
> > I'm used to work with MATLAB in medical image processing but, in order to
> > produce software applications capable of being introduced in a clinical
> > environment I want to move to something more professional. The solution
> > should gather:
> > -speed
> > -good documentation (I need to be able to learn by myself and found
> > solutions for the problems that may occur)
> > -flexibility for development of image processing functions
> > -DICOM reader
> > -GUI development tools
> > I think I should use ITK, VTK and Qt, but I don't know what's the best
> > solution to mix these libraries. I heard of different options and I want
> to
> > know your opinion:
> > - Should I build these libraries to write the program in Qt creator or in
> > VS? (I was trying to build ITK with cmake using msys to go for the first
> > solution (Qt creator) but I did not succeed)
> > - MITK is a good solution?
> > - Should I add other libraries like gdcm or dcmtk for DICOM reading? If
> yes,
> > which one?
> > - Should I use Tcl to simplify coding in VTK, or this will turn things
> even
> > more complicated?
> >
> > I'm really confused because I see a lot of solutions and I don't want to
> > take an option now that may lead me to a dead end.
> > I don't if it helps but I'm working with Win7 x64 and VS10.
> > Thanks, Nuno
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