Medical data visualization: a simple approach based on the visualization toolkit

Abstract

Data visualization is an important subject. In order to provide a greater insight on data, visualization systems are built which allow the user to manipulate, explore and analyse it. Building a visualization system may be a difficult task specially for those who are not graphical experts. The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source library which provides several classes and objects that can be used to build visualization systems for different kinds of data. The presented work shows how it is possible to build a simple visualization system for medical data using only the VTK standard functionalities and how it is possible to integrate VTK with an interface development library in order to provide a more user-friendly interface.