2.3.0
/ 13 September 2023; 8 months ago (2023-09-13)
Written in
C++, Python, R, Java, C#, Lua, Ruby, Tcl
Operating system
Cross-platform
Type
Library for image analysis
License
Apache 2.0
Website
www.simpleitk.org
SimpleITK is a simplified, open-source interface to the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). The SimpleITK image analysis library is available in multiple programming languages including C++, Python, R,[1] Java, C#, Lua, Ruby and Tcl. Binary distributions are available for all three major operating systems (Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows).
Developed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as an open resource, its primary goal is to make the algorithms available in the ITK library accessible to the broadest range of scientists whose work includes image analysis, irrespective of their software development skills.[2]
As a consequence, the SimpleITK interface exposes only the most commonly modified algorithmic settings of the ITK components. Additionally, the library provides both an object oriented and a procedural interface to most of the image processing filters. The latter enables image analysis workflows with concise syntax. A secondary goal of the library is to promote reproducible image analysis workflows[3] by using the SimpleITK library in conjunction with modern tools for reproducible computational workflows available in the Python (Jupyter notebooks) and R (knitr package ) programming languages.
Software development is centered on GitHub using a fork and pull model. The project is built using the CMake tool, with nightly builds posted to the project's quality dashboard.
Multiple medical image analysis applications and libraries incorporate SimpleITK as a key building block, as it provides a wide range of image filtering and image IO components with a user friendly interface. Examples include the pyOsirix[4] scripting tool for the popular Osirix application, the pyradiomics python package for extracting radiomic features from medical imaging,[5] the 3DSlicer image analysis application, the SimpleElastix medical image registration library,[6] and the NiftyNet deep learning library for medical imaging.[7]
^R. Beare, B. C. Lowekamp, Z. Yaniv, “Image Segmentation, Registration and Characterization in R with SimpleITK”, J Stat Softw, 86(8), 2018, doi:10.18637/jss.v086.i08.
^B. C. Lowekamp, D. T. Chen, L. Ibáñez, D. Blezek, "The Design of SimpleITK", Front. Neuroinform.,7:45, 2013, doi:10.3389/fninf.2013.00045.
^Z. Yaniv, B. C. Lowekamp, H.J. Johnson, R. Beare, "SimpleITK Image-Analysis Notebooks: a Collaborative Environment for Education and Reproducible Research", J Digit Imaging., 31(3):290-303, 2018, doi: 10.1007/s10278-017-0037-8.
^M. D. Blackledge, D. J.Collins, D-M Koh, M. O. Leach, "Rapid development of image analysis research tools: Bridging the gap between researcher and clinician with pyOsiriX", Comput Biol Med., 69:203-212, 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.12.002
^J. J. M. van Griethuysen, A. Fedorov, C. Parmar, A. Hosny, N. Aucoin, V. Narayan, R. G. H. Beets-Tan, J. C. Fillon-Robin, S. Pieper, H. J. W. L. Aerts, "Computational Radiomics System to Decode the Radiographic Phenotype", Cancer Research, 77(21): e104–e107, 2017, doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-0339
^K. Marstal, F. Berendsen, M. Staring, S. Klein, "SimpleElastix: A User-Friendly, Multi-lingual Library for Medical Image Registration", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 574-582, 2016, doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2016.78
^E. Gibson, W. Li, C. Sudre, L. Fidon, D. I. Shakir, G. Wang, Z. Eaton-Rosen, R. Gray, T. Doel, Y. Hu, T. Whyntie, P. Nachev, M. Modat, D. C. Barratt, S. Ourselin, M. J. Cardoso, T. Vercauteren, "NiftyNet: a deep-learning platform for medical imaging", Comput Methods Programs Biomed., 158:113-122, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2018.01.025
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