CamiTK: a Modular Framework Integrating Visualization, Image Processing and Biomechanical Modeling

Computer Assisted Medical Intervention (CAMI) is a transverse field which requires the collaboration of experts in several fields as various as medicine, computer science, mathematics, instrumentation, signal processing, mechanics, modeling, automatics and optics. CamiTK proposes a common framework for many fields of CAMI so that scientists from one field can develop their own expertise and use the tools developed by other experts without changing application or data structure. This is achieved through extensibility and modularity of the framework which allows every user to develop their own piece of software and use any other developed pieces thanks to CamiTK abstraction layer. CamiTK is an open-source, cross-platform system, written in C++, that enables developers to prototype efficiently a Computer Assisted Medical Intervention application. It is a generic tool which displays medical imaging, surgical navigations and biomechanical simulations.