The image-guided surgery toolkit IGSTK: an open source C++ software toolkit.

"to summarize the software process here are the ten best practices adopted by the igstk team : recognize that people are the most important mechanism available for ensuring high quality software facilitate constant communication among developers produce iterative releases manage source code from a quality perspective focus on 100% code and path coverage at the component level emphasize continuous builds and testing support the development process with robust tools manage requirements iteratively in lockstep with code management focus on meeting exactly the current set of requirements and evolve the development process."

"This work was funded by NIBIB/NIH grant R01 EB007195 under project officer John Haller. Additional support was provided by US Army grant W81XWH-04-1-007, administered by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD. The content of this manuscript does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the US Government. We thank our other collaborators throughout the project, including Rick Avila and Will Schroeder of Kitware; Roland Stenzel of Georgetown University; Geir Arne Tangen, Ole Vegard Solberg, Arild Wollf, Torleif Sandnes of SINTEF Health Research, Medical Technology (and the National Centre for 3D Ultrasound in Surgery), Trondheim, Norway; Ivo Wolf of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg; Peter Kazanzides and Anton Deguet of Johns Hopkins University; Nobuhiko Hata of Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Sohan Ranjan of GE Research; Mihai Mocanu of the University of Craiova; and Matt McAuliffe and Terry Yoo of the NIH."