CTK Integration Levels Overview

CTK supports the common use of medical imaging software developments on different levels (not all of these levels are available yet):

	CTK benefit for Host	CTK benefit for App/Module
Level 1: DICOM Supplement 118 (Scenarios, Details)	Host communication Data preparation for DataExchange interface Default implementation of host business logic	Application communication Default implementation of application business logic
Level 2: Command line interface (Scenarios, not yet available within CTK)	parsing of parameter descriptions GUI generation (optional)	publishing of parameter descriptions
Level 3: CTK event bus (Scenarios, Details)	publish and subscribe for arbitrary communication between modules and applications possibly out of process
Level 4: CTK services (Scenarios, Details)	Component-based software development Service discovery Base services: event bus, configuration admin, logging, meta type management
Level 5: “Classic” C++ (Scenarios)	DICOM Q/R (ctkDICOMAppWidget, ctkDICOMServerNodeWidget) Local DICOM file management (indexer, database …) (ctkDICOMModel) DICOM testing infrastructure Qt widgets for DICOM, Medical Imaging applications … (Image Gallery, Plans) Scripting support (ctkPythonShell) Application launcher