scikit-surgeryvtk implements VTK for Image Guided Surgery applications.

scikit-surgeryvtk is part of the SNAPPY software project, developed at the Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, part of University College London (UCL).

Functionality includes:

• Load 3D models from vtl/stl/vtp etc. files.
• A widget to overlay 3D models onto a background image e.g. from webcam/video file, useful for Augmented Reality (AR) overlays, using VTK.
• Functions for working with calibrated cameras, and projecting points from 3D to 2D.
• A widget to drive a stereo interlaced monitor.
• Functions to voxelise data and calculate distance fields.

You can pip install as follows: :

pip install scikit-surgeryvtk

You can clone the repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/UCL/scikit-surgeryvtk

You can run the unit tests by installing and running tox:

pip install tox
tox

Please get in touch/raise an issue.

Please see the contributing guidelines.

• Source code repository
• Documentation

Copyright 2020 University College London. scikit-surgeryvtk is released under the BSD-3 license. Please see the license file for details.

Supported by Wellcome and EPSRC.