BTK: An open-source toolkit for fetal brain MR image processing

  • Authors:
  • FrançOis Rousseau;Estanislao Oubel;Julien Pontabry;Marc Schweitzer;Colin Studholme;MéRiam Koob;Jean-Louis Dietemann

  • Affiliations:
  • LSIIT, UMR 7005, CNRS - Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;LSIIT, UMR 7005, CNRS - Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;LSIIT, UMR 7005, CNRS - Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;LSIIT, UMR 7005, CNRS - Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;Biomedical Image Computing Group, University of Washington, Seattle, United States;LINC, UMR 7237, CNRS - Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France and Service de Radiopédiatrie, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France;LINC, UMR 7237, CNRS - Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France and Service de Radiopédiatrie, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France

  • Venue:
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Studies about brain maturation aim at providing a better understanding of brain development and links between brain changes and cognitive development. Such studies are of great interest for diagnosis help and clinical course of development and treatment of illnesses. However, the processing of fetal brain MR images remains complicated which limits the translation from the research to the clinical domain. In this article, we describe an open-source image processing toolkit dedicated to these images. In this toolkit various tools are included such as: denoising, image reconstruction, super-resolution and tractography. The BTK resource program (distributed under CeCILL-B license) is developed in C++ and relies on common medical imaging libraries such as Insight Toolkit (ITK), Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP).