Insight Journal

The Insight Journal is an Open Access on-line publication covering the domain of medical image processing and visualization.

The unique characteristics of the Insight Journal include:

- Open-access to articles, data, code, and reviews
- Open peer-review that invites discussion between reviewers and authors
- Emphasis on reproducible science via automated code compilation and testing
- Support for continuous revision of articles, code, and reviews

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Anomalous Diffusion Paradigm for Image Denoising Process
Published in The Insight Journal

Senra Filho A.C., Murta Junior L.O.

Anisotropic and isotropic diffusion equations have been extensively applied on biomedical image processing for many years and a great diversity of algorithm have been proposed by the scientific community. Here, it is available a recent new implementation of [...]

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Two Luis Miguel fans walk into a bar in Nagoya ---> (yada, yada, yada) ---> an ITK-implementation of a popular patch-based denoising filter
Published in The Insight Journal

Tustison N., Manjon J.V.

This document describes an ITK implementation of the adaptive patch-based image denoising algorithm described in cite{Manjon:2010aa}. This offering consists of the templated class itkPatchBasedDenoisingImageFilter interfaced through the DenoiseImage program [...]

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ND morphological contour interpolation
Published in The Insight Journal

Zukić D., Vicory J., McCormick M., Wisse L., Gerig G., Yushkevich P., Aylward S.

This document describes a new class, itk::MorphologicalContourInterpolator, which implements a method proposed by Albu et al. in 2008. Interpolation is done by first determining correspondence between shapes on adjacent segmented slices by detecting overlaps, [...]

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RLEImage: run-length encoded memory compression scheme for an itk::Image
Published in The Insight Journal

Zukić D., McCormick M., Gerig G., Yushkevich P.

This document describes a new class, itk::RLEImage, which uses run-length encoding to reduce the memory needed for storage of label maps. This class is accompanied by all the iterators to make it a dropin replacement for itk::Image. By changing the image [...]

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A new implementation of itk::ImageToImageFilter for efficient parallelization of image processing algorithms using Intel Threading Building Blocks

A new implementation of itk::ImageToImageFilter for efficient parallelization of image processing algorithms using Intel Threading Building Blocks
Published in The Insight Journal

Jaberzadeh A., Scherrer B., Warfield S.

Modern medical imaging makes use of high performance computing to accelerate image acquisition, image reconstruction, image visualization and image analysis. Software libraries that provide implementations of key medical imaging algorithms need to efficiently [...]

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Isotropic and Steerable Wavelets in N Dimensions. A multiresolution analysis framework.

Isotropic and Steerable Wavelets in N Dimensions. A multiresolution analysis framework.
Published in The Insight Journal

Hernandez-Cerdan P.

This document describes the implementation of the external module ITKIsotropicWavelets, a multiresolution (MRA) analysis framework using isotropic and steerable wavelets in the frequency domain. This framework provides the backbone for state of the art [...]

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Performance Benchmarking the Insight Toolkit
Published in The Insight Journal

McCormick M., Kang H.J., Barre S.

This document describes a module for the Insight Toolkit (ITK) to assist in performance benchmarking and a suite of benchmarks for the toolkit. These resources provide metrics to quantify software computational performance. This is a pre-requisite to improve [...]

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ITK in Biomedical Research and Commercial Applications
Published in The Insight Journal

McCormick M., Aylward S., Johnson H., Lowekamp B.

The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (www.itk.org) has become a standard in academia and industry for medical image analysis. In recent years, the ITK developers' community has focused on providing programming interfaces to ITK from Python, Java, [...]

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Integration of the Java Image Science Toolkit with E-Science Platform
Published in The Insight Journal

Damon S., Panjwani S., Bao S., Kochunov P., Landman B.

Medical image analyses rely on diverse software packages assembled into a “pipeline”. The Java Image Science Toolkit (JIST) has served as a standalone plugin into the Medical Image Processing Analysis and Visualization (MIPAV). We addressed shortcomings [...]

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OpenCL accelerated GPU binary morphology image filters for ITK
Published in The Insight Journal

Bardosi Z.

Binary morphological operations are fundamental tools in image processing but the processing time scales with the number of pixels thus making them expensive operations on the CPU for larger 3D datasets that typically appear in medical imaging. Since erosion [...]

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