The following software is used to compile and automatically generate on-line documentation for ITK. These are all open-source tools.

• CMake - Cross-platform Make process. CMake is used to build the software on a variety of Unix systems and Windows. CMake must be downloaded and installed on your computer to compile and work with ITK. (See the download related software web site.)



• CableSwig - Is used to generate bindings to Tcl and Python. This is required for Tcl/Python wrapping



• CABLE - Is used to generate bindings to other languages such as Tcl. CABLE is part of the ITK source code distribution.



• Doxygen - Automatically generates on-line documentation from the source code. (Go here to see the results for ITK.)



• VNL - Is the numerics package used by ITK. VNL is part of the ITK source code distribution. (VNL is a subsystem of the VXL computer vision system.)



• GNATS - Bug tracking software.

• VTK - The Visualization Toolkit. An open-source system for 3D graphics, image processing, visualization, computational geometry, and volume rendering.



• FLTK - An open-source, cross-platform, C++ toolkit for creating user interfaces.

• LaTeX - Is an open-source system for documentation generation. The bulk of the system reference material is generated with LaTeX. A recommended LaTeX distributions is MikeTeX.



• Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader - Most documents produce PDF output, including original documents in other forms (e.g., PowerPoint and Word).



• Microsoft PowerPoint and Word - These commercial products are used for presentations and shorter documents.

• MRIConvert - Is a tool developed at the Lewis Center for Neuroimaging at the University of Oregon. It reads DICOM series and convert them to other image file formats. It supports MetaImage on writing. Binaries are available at http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert.



• ImageMagick - Is an open-source set of tools for image processing. It manages a large number of file formats. It is available at http://www.imagemagick.org/.