MIPROT: A Medical Image Processing Toolbox for MATLAB

TL;DR

MIPROT is an open-source MATLAB toolbox that offers essential medical image processing and visualization functionalities, aiming to facilitate medical image analysis within the MATLAB environment.

Contribution

It introduces a native MATLAB toolbox with core medical image processing features, comparable to established libraries like ITK, enhancing accessibility for MATLAB users.

Findings

The toolbox provides efficient image input/output, pre-processing, filtering, registration, and visualization functions.

It is fully written in MATLAB, ensuring ease of use and integration.

Sample data and code are publicly available for community use.

Abstract

This paper presents a Matlab toolbox to perform basic image processing and visualization tasks, particularly designed for medical image processing. The functionalities available are similar to basic functions found in other non-Matlab widely used libraries such as the Insight Toolkit (ITK). The toolbox is entirely written in native Matlab code, but is fast and flexible. Main use cases for the toolbox are illustrated here, including image input/output, pre-processing, filtering, image registration and visualisation. Both the code and sample data are made publicly available and open source.