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Sight, the Surgical Image Guidance and Healthcare Toolkit aims to ease the creation of applications based on medical imaging.
It encompasses a range of functionalities, including 2D and 3D digital image processing, visualization, augmented reality, and medical interaction simulation. Compatible with both Linux and Windows operating systems, it is coded in C++ and offers swift interface design through XML files. Moreover, it is freely accessible under the LGPL license.
Sight is developed by the Surgical Data Science Team of IRCAD France, where it is used everyday to develop innovative applications for the operating room and medical research centers.
Numerous tutorials and examples, housed within the tutorials and examples directories, are available to
facilitate your smooth learning journey with Sight.
Detailed steps are described here.
- 2D/3D visualization of medical images, meshes, and many widgets.
- Import / export medical data from various formats (DICOM, VTK, ...) and sources (files, devices, PACS, ...).
- Playing, recording, processing videos (webcams, network streams, Intel RealSense devices, ...).
- Easy GUI configuration and customization (XML description and stylesheets support).
- Timeline, allowing to store various data (video, matrices, markers, etc...) and synchronize these data across time.
- Mono and stereo camera calibration,
- ArUco optical markers tracking,
- openIGTLink support through client and server services,
- Advanced memory management to support large data. Unused data can be offloaded to disk, saving memory for foreground tasks.
- Work session or any part of it, can be saved and restored on disk. The data itself can be encrypted using AES256 to ensure a high level of security and privacy
Sight is written in standard C++20 and use CMake as its build system, which means that Sight should compile on any operating system that provides support for a decent C++20 compiler, CMake, AND Sight's dependencies (see Install for a list of dependencies for Linux platform). However, we currently have access to a limited set of hardware/OS/compiler combinations where the code is actually tested on a regular basis.
Such combination includes:
- Debian 12 stable on AMD64 with GCC 12
- Ubuntu 22.04 on AMD64 with GCC 11/12 or CLang 17
- Microsoft Windows 10/11 on AMD64 with VisualStudio 2022
If your platform is not listed, that doesn't imply Sight will not build, just we cannot guarantee it. If you're using such a platform and manage to build and utilize Sight, please feel free to share your success with us!
Sight Viewer is a full featured medical image and mesh viewer with advanced rendering features such as volume rendering. It supports most medical image formats, and can also retrieve DICOM files from a PACS. It demonstrates many useful features of Sight.
MPR view of a medical 3D image with additional volume rendering
Volume rendering and transfer function tuning
Volume rendering mixed with 3D surfacic meshes
Sight Calibrator is a user-friendly application to calibrate mono and stereo cameras. This software is a must-have since camera calibration is a mandatory step in any AR application.
Intrinsic & extrinsic calibration of mono/stereo cameras with live reprojection error display
See detailed install instructions for Windows and Linux.
Please note that our GitLab is currently only available in read-only access for external developers and users. This is a restriction because of the licensing model of GitLab. Since we use an EE version, we would be forced to pay for every community user, and unfortunately we cannot afford it. This licensing model might change in the future https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4382 though.
Until then, we gently ask our community users to use our GitHub mirror to report any issues or propose contributions.
You can also get live community support on the gitter chat room.