This is a test of volume rendering with ITK and VTK

ITK is good at DICOM image operation, while VTK can render excellent volume results. Although VTK can read some DICOM images, compressed DIMCOMs are out of its ability. This is why ITK and VTK are usually combined together on DICOM image operations.

Simple DICOM image read and write examples can be found in VTK wiki. This test shows how to read DICOM serial images with ITK and then render the volume with VTK.

Programming environment

• ** Operation system ** - OS X 10.10
• ** Toolchain ** - CMake 3.1.3, GDB 7.8
• ** VTK version ** - VTK 6.2.rc1
• ** ITK version ** - ITK 4.7.1

Compilation of VTK

• ** BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ** - ON
• ** CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE ** - Release
• ** CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ** - /usr/local/vtk

Compilation of ITK

• ** CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS ** - -stdlib=libstdc++ -std=c++11
• ** BUILD_SHARD_LIBS ** - ON
• ** Module_ITKVtkGlue ** - ON
• ** CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ** - /usr/local/itk

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.4)
project(TEST)

set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -stdlib=libstdc++ -std=c++11")

find_package(ITK REQUIRED)
include(${ITK_USE_FILE})

find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})

add_executable(test1 MACOSX_BUNDLE main.cxx)

target_link_libraries(test1 ${VTK_LIBRARIES} ${ITK_LIBRARIES})
# If the simple include of VTK_LIBRARIES and ITK_LIBRARIES gives "Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64" error. Then include some other VTK libraries explicitly as shown below.
# target_link_libraries(test1 ${VTK_LIBRARIES} ${ITK_LIBRARIES} vtkRenderingVolume vtkRenderingOpenGL vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL vtkInteractionStyle vtkRenderingFreeType vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL)