The MITK Tutorial

If you have set up and compiled MITK already and want to know more about developing with MITK you might want to read the Tutorial chapters. If you want help setting up MITK and creating your own project using MITK you should take a look at Creating a new MITK project.

First steps in MITK

If you are absolutely new to MITK you might want to read up on setting up MITK to use in your development. The following pages will help you in this task.

• A comprehensive guide to setting up your own MITK project
• Building MITK
• CMake FAQ

Tutorial chapters

This tutorial will give you an introduction to developing with MITK. We will start with configuring MITK to compile the tutorial, continue to show how to display and do basic interaction with images, and finally show how to build a plug-in and add new interactions.

The source code of the examples can be found in Examples/Tutorial/
Visit Troubleshooting for a guide to miscellaneous issues and their resolution.
Two data files are used to execute the example code.

• Pic3D.nrrd
  This file contains an image and can be downloaded from https://www.mitk.org/download/tutorial-data/Pic3D.nrrd .

• lungs.vtk
  This file contains a surface and can be downloaded from https://www.mitk.org/download/tutorial-data/lungs.vtk .

• Step 0: Getting started
• Step 1: Displaying an image
• Step 2: Load one or more data sets
• Step 3: Create 3D view
• Step 4: Use several views to explore data
• Step 5: Interactively add points
• Step 6: Use an interactive region-grower
• Step 7: Convert result of region growing into a surface
• Step 8: Use QmitkStdMultiWidget as widget
• Step 9: A plug-in
• Step 10: How to use Interactor and how to implement new ones

More advanced How-Tos can be found at First steps in Development .

Enjoy MITK!