VItA

Linux Installation

As a first step, we must clone the github repository in our local drive using the following commands:

cd <my_vita_folder>
mkdir vita_source
mkdir vita_build
git clone https://github.com/GonzaloMaso/VItA.git vita_source
cd vita_build
ccmake ../vita_source

In the ccmake interface, press key "c" to configure the cmake project, complete the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = <my_vita_folder>, press key "c" again, and then press "g" to generate make files. Once back in the terminal, we will build and install the library with the following commands:

make
make install

For parallel compilation with N threads, switch the command "make" by "make -jN", e.g., to parallelise with 8 threads execute "make -j8". Note that the "make" command may take more than 30 minutes as is also installing VTK 8.1 (a dependency of this library).

Using VItA library

Once you create your project, cpp files using VItA should be compiled and linked as follows

g++ <cpp_filename>.cpp -Wall -std=c++11 -O3 -I<vita_folder>/vita_build/include/vtk-8.1 -I<vita_folder>/include/vita_source -L<vita_folder>/vita_build/lib -L<vita_folder>/lib -o <executable_filename> -lVItA -lvtkCommonCore-8.1 -lvtkCommonDataModel-8.1 -lvtkCommonExecutionModel-8.1 -lvtkFiltersModeling-8.1 -lvtkIOCore-8.1 -lvtkIOLegacy-8.1 -lvtkIOXML-8.1 -lvtkIOGeometry-8.1 -lvtkInfovisCore-8.1 -lvtkFiltersGeneral-8.1 -lvtkFiltersCore-8.1 -lvtkCommonTransforms-8.1 -lvtkIOXMLParser-8.1

An example can be found in the released version 0.2 (see tag VItA v0.2 - https://github.com/GonzaloMaso/VItA/releases/tag/v0.2).

About

The Virtual ITerative Angiogenesis library allows the generation of synthetic vasculatures mimicking the angiogenesis process. The models support the usage of in-vivo or experimental prior constraints over the geometrical description.

Publications

Maso Talou, G. D., et al. "Adaptive constrained constructive optimisation for complex vascularisation processes." Scientific Reports 11.1 (2021): 1-22. - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85434-9