Ingmar Wegner

TL;DR: The goal of MITK is to significantly reduce the effort required to construct specifically tailored, interactive applications for medical image analysis, by allowing an easy combination of algorithms developed by ITK with visualizations created by VTK and extends these two toolkits with those features outside the scope of both.

TL;DR: The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) supplements those features to ITK and VTK that are required for convenient to use, interactive and by that clinically usable image-based software, and that are outside the scope of both.

TL;DR: Due to their high accuracy and robustness, the Tabletop FG and the Compact FG could eliminate the need for compensation of EM field distortions in certain CT-guided interventions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for navigation during medical interventions on tubular organ structures is described, in which, before the intervention, static image data of the tubular organs structures are recorded and stored, and their course is converted into a geometric description used during the medical intervention for instrument/organ recording, and the instrument that is spatially localized by a tracking system is successively corrected in relation to the static data, by a transformation that is preferably defined by an optimization method.

TL;DR: The presented approach appears to be promising, especially in difficult settings, provided that in vivo data support these initial results.