New video component for the image guided surgery toolkit IGSTK

Abstract

In the last decades the Internet has changed traditional understanding of retrieving and distributing information. Knowledge and specialists are permanently reachable regardless of geographical distances. Special software development strategies were created to increase and exploit the power of distributed development and testing. This access to distributed knowledge, give rise to solve our needs, in the field of open-source system for researchers, a distributed manner. The new implemented Video component provides a facility to use common video-devices with IGSTK, which is intended to build image guided surgery applications. Hereby it benefits from the "safety by design" philosophy of IGSTK and can securely used for image-guided surgical applications.