The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) is a free open-source software system for development of interactive medical image processing software. MITK combines the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) with an application framework.
The links below provide high-level and reference documentation targeting different usage scenarios:
- Get a high-level overview about MITK with pointers to further documentation
- End-users looking for help with MITK applications should read the MITK User Manual
- Developers contributing to or using MITK, please see the MITK Developer Manual as well as the MITK API Reference
See the MITK homepage for details.
Supported platforms
MITK is a cross-platform C++ toolkit and officially supports:
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
For details, please read the Supported Platforms page.
Build status of develop branch
We highly recommend to use the stable master branch instead. It is updated 1-2 times per month accompanied by curated changelogs and snapshot installers.
License
Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). All rights reserved.
MITK is available as free open-source software under a 3-clause BSD license.
Download
The MITK source code and binaries for the MitkWorkbench application are released regularly according to the MITK release cycle. See the Download page for a list of releases.
The official MITK source code is available in the MITK Git repository. The Git clone command is
git clone https://phabricator.mitk.org/source/mitk.git MITK
Active development takes place in the MITK develop branch and its usage is advised for advanced users only.
How to contribute
Contributions of all kind are happily accepted. However, to make the contribution process as smooth as possible, please read the How to contribute to MITK page if you plan to contribute to MITK.
Build instructions
MITK uses CMake to configure a build tree. The following is a crash course about cloning, configuring, and building MITK on a Linux/Unix system:
git clone https://phabricator.mitk.org/source/mitk.git MITK
mkdir MITK-build
cd MITK-build
cmake ../MITK
make -j4
Read the comprehensive build instructions page for details.