Title : 
Visualization Toolkit and its application
         
        
            Author : 
Lihua, Sun ; Yunzhi, Wu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Nanchang Univ., Nanchang, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Visualization Toolkit(VTK) is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for scientific visualization. In this paper, we first describe some basic concept, including dataset, pipeline, and common algorithm. Then we give some applications in medical imaging, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and modeling.
         
        
            Keywords : 
computational fluid dynamics; data visualisation; finite element analysis; medical image processing; public domain software; solid modelling; computational fluid dynamics; cross-platform system; finite element analysis; medical imaging; scientific visualization; software tools; visualization toolkit; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer graphics; Finite element methods; Image analysis; Mathematical model; Object oriented modeling; Pipelines; Visualization; VTK; computational fluid dynamics; dataset; finite element analysis; medical imaging; modeling; pipeline; visualization toolkit;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE), 2010 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Wuhan
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-7737-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MACE.2010.5535547