Often one is required to write medical image processing code in C++ for reasons of speed and programming libraries. However, what is missing during the development are nice and interactive calculation, plotting and visualization tools. However, on the contrary these are provided by Matlab. So all we need is an easy link for communicating between Matlab and your C++ program.

An overview of the available methods is provided in the Matlab external interfaces guide. Today I want to provide you with a link to my favorite method for windows C++ programs. It is called MatlabEngine and can be downloaded at CodeProject.