scikit-surgerynditracker
scikit-surgerynditracker is a python interface for Northern Digital (NDI) trackers. It should work with Polaris Vicra, Spectra, and Vega optical trackers and Aurora electromagnetic trackers. Tracking data is output as NumPy arrays.
Author: Stephen Thompson
scikit-surgerynditracker is part of the SciKit-Surgery software project, developed at the Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, part of University College London (UCL).
Installing
pip install scikit-surgerynditracker
Using
Configuration is done using Python libraries at instantiation. Invalid configuration should raise exceptions. Tracking data is returned in a set of lists, containing the port handles, timestamps, framenumbers, the tracking data and a tracking quality metric. By default tracking data is returned as a 4x4 NumPy array, though can be returned as a quaternion by changing the configuration.
from sksurgerynditracker.nditracker import NDITracker
SETTINGS = {
"tracker type": "polaris",
"romfiles" : ["../data/8700339.rom"]
}
TRACKER = NDITracker(SETTINGS)
TRACKER.start_tracking()
port_handles, timestamps, framenumbers, tracking, quality = TRACKER.get_frame()
for t in tracking:
print (t)
TRACKER.stop_tracking()
TRACKER.close()
See demo.py for a full example
Developing
Cloning
You can clone the repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/SciKit-Surgery/scikit-surgerynditracker
Running the tests
You can run the unit tests by installing and running tox:
pip install tox tox
Contributing
Please see the contributing guidelines.
Useful links
Licensing and copyright
Copyright 2018 University College London. scikit-surgerynditracker is released under the BSD-3 license. Please see the license file for details.
Acknowledgements
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