Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2010 Jan-Feb;16(1):133-46. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.58.
Application development is often guided by the usage of software libraries and toolkits. For medical applications, the toolkits currently available focus on image analysis and volume rendering. Advance interactive visualizations and user interface issues are not adequately supported. Hence, we present a toolkit for application development in the field of medical intervention planning, training, and presentation--the MEDICALEXPLORATIONTOOLKIT (METK). The METK is based on the rapid prototyping platform MeVisLab and offers a large variety of facilities for an easy and efficient application development process. We present dedicated techniques for advanced medical visualizations, exploration, standardized documentation, adn interface widgets for common tasks. These include, e.g., advanced animation facilities, viewpoint selection, several illustrative rendering techniques, and new techniques for object selection in 3D surface models. No extended programming skills are needed for application building, since a graphical programming approach can be used. the toolkit is freely available and well documented to facilitate the use and extension of the toolkit.
应用程序开发通常由软件库和工具包的使用来指导。对于医学应用程序，目前可用的工具包主要集中在图像分析和体积渲染上。高级交互可视化和用户界面问题没有得到充分支持。因此，我们提出了一个用于医学干预规划、培训和演示领域应用程序开发的工具包，即 MEDICALEXPLORATIONTOOLKIT（METK）。METK 基于快速原型平台 MeVisLab，并提供了大量的设施，以实现简单高效的应用程序开发过程。我们为高级医学可视化、探索、标准化文档以及常见任务的界面小部件提供了专用技术。这些包括，例如，高级动画设施、视点选择、几种说明性渲染技术，以及用于 3D 表面模型中对象选择的新技术。由于可以使用图形编程方法，因此不需要扩展的编程技能即可进行应用程序构建。该工具包是免费提供的，并提供了很好的文档，以方便工具包的使用和扩展。
