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vmtk - the Vascular Modeling Toolkit

The Vascular Modeling Toolkit is a collection of libraries and tools for 3D reconstruction, geometric analysis, mesh generation and surface data analysis for image-based modeling of blood vessels.

News

May 30, 2010: New projects

Ok, ok, we're lagging behind with releases and news, but there's a lot of activity within vmtk and a few new projects on the go. Here's what's happening (in chronological order):

• Daniel Haehn (currently at UPenn and SPL) has integrated functionality of vmtk in 3DSlicer (so far segmentation and centerline extraction, more to come in June). Check out the vmtk in 3DSlicer project in the sidebar.
• Carlos Remuzzi (freelance developer based in London, UK) has joined us at Orobix for a documentation and usability project. He'll take care of writing new tutorials, creating quick pipe repository and improving the usability of vmtk scripts (user messages, keystrokes, interaction, etc) and make PypePad a better tool. Welcome onboard Carlos!
• Johannes Ring (Simula Research Laboratory and Kalkulo AS, Norway) has started the vmtk packaging project, sponsored by Orobix. This is a big thing for all vmtk users: Johannes will create binaries for
  1. Mac OS X Leopard 32 bit, Snow Leopard, 32 and 64 bit,
  2. Linux Ubuntu, Debian, 32 and 64 bit,
  3. Windows XP 32 bit, Vista, 7, 32 and 64 bit

May 30, 2010: Luca and Orobix

So, what's the deal with Luca and this company he co-founded, Orobix? Will the development continue and vmtk still be open-source? Of course it will. Actually, we will actively maintain and develop vmtk, and we are already sponsoring the documentation and usability project and the packaging project (see news item above). Beyond that, Orobix offers professional support with vmtk (and related open-source projects, e.g. VTK, ITK). Contact us at our website if you're interested.

May 7, 2009: New release: vmtk-0.8

vmtk-0.8 has been released. Read the release notes here. Johannes Ring already created Ubuntu packages for 8.04 (Hardy), 8.10 (Intrepid) and 9.04 (Jaunty).

Feb 26, 2009:

Check out the new guide by Hugo Gratama van Andel and Joppe Schneiders, with the contribution of Rocco Gasteiger: How to compile VMTK on windows with MS Visual Studio. Great job folks!

Jul 17, 2008: Ubuntu packages released

vmtk-0.7rc Ubuntu packages for 8.04 (Hardy) and 7.10 (Gutsy) 32 and 64 bit, are available. Follow the instructions at the Installation page. Thanks to Johannes Ring from Simula Research Laboratory.

Mailing list

• Please mail your questions to vmtk-users@lists.sourceforge.net. To subscribe to the list, visit this page.
• You can also browse the vmtk-users archives.

Maintainers

vmtk is developed and maintained by

• Luca Antiga (Orobix Srl and Medical Imaging Unit, Mario Negri Institute, Bergamo, Italy)
• David Steinman (Biomedical Simulation Lab, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)