The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)

The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)

The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) is a free open-source software system for development of interactive medical image processing software. MITK combines the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) with an application framework. As a toolkit, MITK offers those features that are relevant for the development of interactive medical imaging software covered neither by ITK nor VTK, see ToolkitFeatures for details.

MITK can be used or integrated with existing solutions in several ways, see ResearchPlatform for examples.

News

MITK 2013.03 released

April 2013

MITK 2013.03 has been released. Many bugs have been fixed (e.g. transparency issues with multiple stacked images) and a few new features were introduced.

Read the full release notes and a list of highlights here.

You can download an installer containing the MITK Workbench application for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux here.

MITK 2012.12 and MITK Diffusion 2012.12 released

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MITK 2012.12 has been released. Beside some new features like the new Image Accessor this release is primarily a bug fix release.

Download an installer for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from here.

Read the release notes and a list of highlights here.

The MITK Diffusion 2012.12 application has been released as well. Installers for the major platforms can be found here. The source code is available in the GIT repository.

MITK Diffusion 2012.09 released

Oktober 2012

The MITK Diffusion 2012.09 application has just been released. Installers for the major platforms can be found here. The source code is available in the GIT repository.

MITK 2012.09 released

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MITK 2012.09 has been released. This is the second release of our new release cycle. It includes the latest snapshot of the toolkit as well as an extensible DICOM and medical image viewer. Regarding our last release a new logging view and a experimental DICOM plugin for query/retrieve were added in this version.

Download an installer for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from here.

Read the release notes and a list of highlights here.

MITK 2012.06 released

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MITK 2012.06 has been released. This is the first release of our new release cycle. It includes the latest snapshot of the toolkit as well as an extensible DICOM and medical image viewer. Also included are tools for fast volume visualization and MPR, measurement and interactive segmentation.

Download an installer for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from here.

Read the release notes and a list of highlights here.

MITK Diffusion 2012 released

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May 2012 The MITK Diffusion 2012 application has been released. Installers for the major platforms can be found here. The source code is available in the GIT repository. The summary of new features is listed here. The MITK Diffusion application offers a selection of image analysis algorithms for the visualization, processing, and interactive exploration of diffusion-weighted MR images and related datasets.

November 2011 The MITK Diffusion 2011 application has been released. We recommend to use the 2012 version since new features were implemented, nevertheless the installer are still available in the release archive.

MITK/BlueBerry now uses the CTK plugin framework

June 2011: The BlueBerry framework has been changed to rely on the CTK plugin framework. CTK will now be build automatically during the super-build if BlueBerry is enabled. For more information, see the BlueBerry page.

New simplified MITK build system setup

March 2011: Building MITK and the necessary 3rd party libraries has been simplified a lot. We are now using the ExternalProjects feature of CMake (aka Superbuild) to download, configure and build all projects in one run. See the updated build instructions page for details.

MITK-ToF available

March 2011: The subproject MITK-ToF for range data support is now available in the GIT repository

MITK has moved to Git

March 2011: MITK has moved to Git. See MitkGit for details.

More News

• November 2010: mint medical presents the new version of MITK 3M3 at the RSNA in Chicago.
• November 2010: MITK 1.0beta1 has been released. This is the first snapshot release preparing MITK 1.0 .
• April 2010: The public dashboard has moved from my.cdash.org to cdash.mitk.org.
• March 2010: Slides of the BVM 2010 tutorial available on the Documentation page.
• February 2010: The MITK developers will host a MITK tutorial on March 14. 2010 at the BVM Workshop in Aachen, Germany
• December 2009: MITK 0.14 has been released. This is the first Qt3-free release and the last milestone before MITK 1.0 .
• November 2009: mint medical presents a MITK based application at the RSNA in Chicago.
• November 2009: Sascha commited revision number 20,000 to the subversion repository
• June 2009: MITK 0.12.2 is available for download. 0.12.2 fixes minor issues in the MITK application, major fix enables building from the downloadable archives.
• May 2009: MITK Release 0.12 is available for download. Take a look at the Release Notes. MITK 0.12 is the first Release that includes the new MITK-IGT component for building Image Guided Therapy applications with MITK.
• March 2009: New MITK-IGT component is available via our SVN repository
• October 2008: MITK 0.10 is released.

Information for users

• Screenshots
• Download
• License
• Mailinglist

Program modules

Among others the main application of MITK currently offers the following application modules:

• Interactive segmentation of slices in image volumes, including interactive region growing and easy correction, interpolation of missing slices, surface generation, and volumetry
• Point based registration of medical image volumes allows to match two images based on two corresponding sets of points
• Rigid registration of images by combination of the ITK registration objects (transforms, optimizers, metrics, etc.)
• Measurement of distances and angles
• Volume visualization, GPU-based, easy to modify transfer functions
• Movie generation (Windows only)
• Deformable Registration

Information for developers

• See Development for further information

More information about MITK

• Publications
• Mailinglist