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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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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Anisotropic Fast Marching in ITK
Published in The Insight Journal

Mirebeau J.

The Fast Marching algorithm is an efficient numerical method for computing the distance and shortest path between points of a domain. For that purpose, it solves a front propagation problem, which can be of interest in itself. The method has numerous [...]

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Probabilistic Tissue Characterization for Ultrasound Images
Published in The Insight Journal

Curiale A.H., Vegas-Sánchez-Ferrero G., Aja-Fernández S.

This document describes the derivation of the mixture models commonly used in the literature to describe the probabilistic nature of speckle: The Gaussian Mixture Model, the Rayleigh Mixture Model, the Gamma Mixture Model and the Generalized Gamma Mixture [...]

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N-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping
Published in The Insight Journal

Vigneault D., Wang W., Tee M., Bluemke D., Noble A.

Although phase data can take on any value, it is generally only possible to measure phase as a principle value, i.e., wrapped within the range (-pi,pi]. Determining the unwrapped phase from its principle value is a topic of considerable interest in magnetic [...]

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A Tutorial on Combining Nonlinear Optimization with CUDA
Published in The Insight Journal

Hatt C.

Nonlinear optimization is a key component of many image registration algorithms. Improving registration speed is almost always desirable. One way to do this is to accelerate the optimization cost function using a parallel implementation. The purpose of this [...]

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A generic interpolator for multi-label images
Published in The Insight Journal

Schaerer J., Roche F., Belaroussi B.

We present a generic interpolator for label images. The basic idea is to interpolate each label with an ordinary image interpolator, and return the label with the highest value. This is the idea used by the itk::LabelImageGaussianInterpolateImageFunction [...]

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Anisotropic Diffusion in ITK
Published in The Insight Journal

Mirebeau J., Fehrenbach J., Risser L., Tobji S.

Anisotropic Non-Linear Diffusion is a powerful image processing technique, which allows to simultaneously remove the noise and enhance sharp features in two or three dimensional images. Anisotropic Diffusion is understood here in the sense of Weickert, [...]

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InsightToolkit Kinetic Analysis (itk::ka) Library

InsightToolkit Kinetic Analysis (itk::ka) Library
Published in The Insight Journal

Dowson N., Baker C., Raffelt D., Smith J., Thomas P., Salvado O., Rose S.

This paper describes how to compile and use the Insight Toolkit Kinetic Analysis library (itk::ka), to perform analysis of dynamic medical images, along with a brief overview of the library source code. Supplied, are a set of interfaces to facilitate [...]

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DICOM Spatial Transform IO in the Insight Toolkit
Published in The Insight Journal

McCormick M., Wang K., Lasso A., Sharp G., Pieper S.

This document describes a module that extends the Insight Toolkit, ITK, which reads DICOM Spatial Rogistration Object files in itk::Transform's. Currently, DICOM files are read by applying the DCMTK library as a backend. An itk::DCMTKTransformIO class can be [...]

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