Automated Containerized Medical Image Processing Based on MITK and Python - A Modular System to Implement Medical Image Processing Pipelines and Visualize Meta Data

Caspar J. Goch, Jasmin Metzger, Martin Hettich, André Klein, Tobias Norajitra, Michael Götz, Jens Petersen, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Marco Nolden

Abstract: Modern medical image processing employs an ever widening array of tools on an ever larger pool of data. Development of the tools takes place on a variety of different platforms, determined by external circumstances, such as the availability of necessary functionality as libraries forcing the use of a specific programming language or interdependencies of third party tools requiring specific versions of specific operating systems. This problem itself is not unique to medical imaging[1] and solutions such as Docker have proven themselves useful in a variety of use cases.