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= '''CTK - The Common Toolkit''' =

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The goal of CTK is to support biomedical image computing. CTK code is licensed under [http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache 2.0]. This means that users of CTK are allowed to use the code for academic, commercial, or other purposes without paying license fees or being restricted in their ability to redistribute their code or keep it private. 

CTK works on topics that are not covered by existing toolkits that support the mutual interest and needs of the CTK community. The main scope of current CTK efforts includes the topics ''DICOM'', ''DICOM Application Hosting'', ''Widgets'', and ''Plugin Framework''.


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| style="padding: 5px;" | DICOM
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| style="padding: 5px;" | Provides high-level classes supporting query and retrieve operations from PACS and local databases. Includes Qt widgets to easily set-up a server connection and to send queries and view the results. [http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk DCMTK] is used as the underlying toolkit. [[Documentation/Dicom_Overview | Read more...]]
<span style="float: right;font-size: 10px; color: gray;">API Docs | [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues?labels=DICOM&sort=created&direction=desc&state=open&page=1 Open Issues]</span>
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| style="padding: 5px;" | DICOM Application Hosting
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| style="padding: 5px;" | Aims at creating a C++ reference implementation of the [[media:DicomAppHostingSpecs.pdf | DICOM Part 19 Application Hosting specifications]]. It provides an infrastructure to create both hosts and hosted applications. The project is still in alpha status but may be useful for conformance testing and initial experimentation. [[Documentation/DicomApplicationHosting | Read more...]]
<span style="float: right;font-size: 10px; color: gray;">API Docs | [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues?labels=DICOMApplicationHosting&sort=created&direction=desc&state=open&page=1 Open Issues]</span>
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| style="padding: 5px;" | Widgets
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| style="padding: 5px;" | A collection of Qt Widgets for usage in biomedical imaging applications. [[Documentation/WidgetPlans | Read more...]]
<span style="float: right;font-size: 10px; color: gray;">API Docs | [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues?labels=Widgets&sort=created&direction=desc&state=open&page=1 Open Issues]</span>
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| style="padding: 5px;" | Plugin Framework
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| style="padding: 5px;" | A dynamic component system for C++, modeled after the [http://www.osgi.org OSGi] specifications. It enables a development model where applications are (dynamically) composed of many different (reusable) components   following a service oriented approach. [[Documentation/PluginFramework_Overview | Read more...]]
<span style="float: right;font-size: 10px; color: gray;">[http://www.commontk.org/docs/html/group__PluginFramework.html API Docs] | [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues?labels=PluginFramework&sort=created&direction=desc&state=open&page=1 Open Issues]</span>
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=== Important Links ===

Although the CTK efforts are concentrated on the topics described above, there are a couple of other working areas covering topics like ''[[Interoperability | interoperability]]'' and ''software testing'' which might be of interest to the biomedical imaging community. Please see the links given below for more details.

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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">About CTK</span>
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* [[News]]
* [[Events]]
* [[The Team]]
* [[CTK-Roadmap | CTK Roadmap Document]]
* [[Interoperability]]
* [[Documentation | Technical Documentation]]

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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">CTK Users</span>
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* [[Getting Started]]
* [[Build Instructions]]
* API Documentation
* Application Launcer

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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">CTK Developers</span>
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* Source Code
* Dashboards
* Contributing to CTK
* Report a problem
* Project Ideas

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| [[File:Cmake-logo.png|x26px|link=Documentation/BuildSystem_Description]]
| [[File:Python-powered-w-100x40.png|x26px|link=Documentation/Python_Scripting]]
| [[File:Dcmtk-logo.png|x26px|link=http://www.dcmtk.org]]
| [[File:ItkLogo med.png|x26px|link=http://www.itk.org]]
| [[File:VTKlogo.png|x26px|link=http://www.vtk.org]]
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= Links for Developers =
''Note: CTK is currently in a pre-alpha state, meaning that the code is expected to be in constant flux and the exact feature set has not been finalized.  Use with care.''


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|| [[File:CtkDashboard.png|70px|link=http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=CTK]]
|| [[File:Commontk contributing.png|70px|link=Contributing to CTK]]
|| [[File:commontk_ideas.png|70px|link=Project Ideas]]
|| [[File:Commontk bug.png|70px|link=http://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues]]
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|| [[Build Instructions]]
|| [http://github.com/commontk/CTK Source Code]
|| [http://www.commontk.org/docs/html/classes.html Source code's<br/>documentation]
|| [http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=CTK Source Code's <br/>Quality Dashboard]
|| [[Contributing to CTK]]
|| [[Project Ideas]]
|| [http://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues Report a problem]
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* [http://github.com/jcfr/CTK-BuildSystem-Tests Build System Source Code]
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= Links for Dashboard Maintainers =

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= Tools =

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