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Thank you for both comments. Phil's post especially is really useful not only for me but also for others who are searching similar threads in the Newsreader.

As a brief answer to Greg regarding the comparison between MATLAB and VTK, I can group the reasons into three.

1 - VTK is faster and gives better quality results in 3D rendering
2 - It can handle larger data better than MATLAB
3 - It has additional routines for 3D image manipulation, (e.g: vtkMassProperties) that MATLAB does not have

Ideally I would like to have everything in MATLAB. It really speeds up researchers' job to test algorithms; also enables making GUIs very quickly. However it is not perfect of course and needs improvement. 

I quickly wrote three main points that improvement is needed. One can of add additional tweaks to MATLAB in order to match VTK's performance in 3D image manipulation and visualization.

Regards,

-Baran