The image-guided surgery toolkit (igstk: pronounced igstick) is a high-level component-based framework providing common functionality for image-guided surgery applications.

this software framework consists of a set of high-level components integrated with other low-level open source software libraries and application programming interfaces (api) from hardware vendors.

the cornerstone of igstk is robustness. igstk provides the following high-level functionality: ability to read and display medical images including ct and mri in dicom format.

an interface to common tracking hardware (e.g. aurora from northern digital inc.). a graphical user interface and visualization capability including a four-quadrant view (axial, sagittal, coronal, and 3d) as well as a multi-slice axial view (from 1 by 1 to many by many such as 10 by 10).

registration: point based registration and a means for selecting these points. robust common internal software services for logging, exception-handling and problem resolution.

this package contains documentation files for igstk.