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Kitware is pleased to announce a course covering its open source tools scheduled for February 2-4, 2011 in Lyon, France. This course will cover the Insight Segmentation...

Kitware Honors Employees

Published on December 14, 2010
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On Sunday during the annual Holiday Party for its Clifton Park, NY office, Kitware honored two employees for their dedication to the company over a ten year period.

CDash 1.8.2 Released

Published on December 13, 2010
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Kitware is proud to announce the release of CDash 1.8.2. CDash is the open-source, web-based software testing server th...

Kitware's Most Popular Books Available on amazon.co.uk

Published on December 09, 2010
Related sites: CDash, CMake, IGSTK, ITK, Kitware, Paraview, VTK

Two of Kitware's most popular technical books,

Kitware's Cutting-Edge Research Leads To Record Growth and More Jobs

Published on December 06, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, CMake, Computer Vision, Informatics, ITK, Kitware

Kitware Offers Free Access to VolView

Published on November 29, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, Data Management, IGSTK, ITK, Kitware, Paraview, VTK

Kitware has announced that VolView, a commercial product for exploring and analyzing complex 3D medical or scientific data, will now be available free of cha...

Kitware, Leading US Builder of Open Source Technology and Developer of Advanced Research Solutions, Unveils Plans for the RSNA 2010 Conference

Published on November 22, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, IGSTK, ITK, Kitware, VTK

At RSNA 2010, Kitware will highlight a number of applications and technologies designed to deliver advanced medical imaging solutions based on free and open source software for scientists and engin...

Kitware Receives Honors in 2010 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Published on November 16, 2010
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Annual HPCwire Awards Demonstrate Achievement of Mindshare from Within the Global HPC Community

Kitware, Inc. has been recogniz...

Kitware & the NA-MIC Community Announce Alpha Release of 3D Slicer 4.0

Published on October 27, 2010
Related sites: CDash, Medical Imaging, CMake, ITK, Kitware, MIDAS, VTK

3D Slicer is an open-source (BSD-style license) platform for medical image segmentation, registration, visualization and analysis. It represents a practical integration of innovations from a multit...

ITKv4

Published on October 27, 2010
Related sites: ITK, Kitware

Ten years ago, the National Library of Medicine initiated a software development program to produce an open-source toolkit for the segmentation and registration of medical images, in particular the...

Kitware Announces Opening of European Office

Published on October 25, 2010
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Lyon office allows the Company to continue its expansion
into European markets and better s...

Kitware Welcomes Nine New Employees

Published on October 13, 2010
Related sites: VTK, Paraview, Kitware, ITK, IGSTK, CMake, CDash

Lynn Bardsley
Lynn joined Kitware as a Program Manager for the Computer Vision Group in July. She received her M.S....

Kitware Tapped by National Alliance for Medical Image Computing to Continue Development of its Advanced Biomedical Imaging Toolkit

Published on October 06, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, IGSTK, ITK, Kitware, MIDAS, Software Process, VTK

Kitware, developers of open source and advanced research solutions, today announced the renewal of a contract with the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) to continue with its de...

DARPA Awards Kitware $11 Million for Phase II of VIRAT Program

Published on October 04, 2010
Related sites: Computer Vision, Kitware

Advanced research company will develop the next generation event-based query and alerting system for video surveillance

CLIFTON PARK, NY - October 4, 20...

ParaView 3.8.1 Released

Published on September 30, 2010
Related sites: Scientific Vis, Paraview, VTK

Kitware is pleased to announce the release of ParaView 3.8.1, a patch release over 3.8.0 with a small set of improvements.

ParaView now comes HDF5 1.8.5. This enables developers to easily c...

VTK 5.6.1 Released

Published on September 30, 2010
Related sites: ActiViz, Medical Imaging, Scientific Vis, Paraview, VTK

Kitware is pleased to announce the release of VTK 5.6.1, a patch release over 5.6.0 with a small set of improvements.

VTK now includes NetCDF 4.1.1 allowing users to take advantage of the l...

ParaView 3.8.1 RC 1 Binaries Now Available

Published on September 14, 2010
Related sites: Informatics, Scientific Vis, Paraview, VTK

The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView 3.8.1 Release Candidate 1 binaries for download on the ParaV...

Kitware Welcomes Nine New Employees, Looking to Hire More

Published on August 24, 2010
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Kitware welcomes several new employees to the team:

Jacob Becker

Jacob joined Kitware's Computer Visio...

Kitware Ranks No. 1655 on the 2010 Inc. 5000 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 172%

Inc. magazine today ranked Kitware NO. 1655 on its fourth annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The l...

Kitware Organizing MICCAI Workshop on Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions

Published on August 23, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, IGSTK, Kitware, MIDAS

Kitware is co-organizing a workshop on Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions at...

Stephen Aylward to speak at the "From MICCAI Algorithms to Clinical Translational Tools: The NA-MIC Platform" Tutorial

Published on August 09, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, Data Management, IGSTK, ITK, Kitware, MIDAS, VTK

MICCAI offers a window into the latest scientific achievements in medical image computing and computer assisted interventions which will lead to the next generation of technological breakthroughs f...

Kitware Awarded NIH Grant to Improve Lesion Biopsy Using PET-CT Imaging

Published on August 05, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, IGSTK, ITK, Kitware, VTK

Kitware has received a one-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $228,458 to improve the clinical effectiveness of liver lesion biopsy using PET...

Kitware Receives $1.07 Million in Stimulus Funds to Further Innovation in the Renowned Insight Toolkit (ITK)

Published on August 04, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, ITK, Kitware

Kitware today announced it has received a $1.07 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to improve the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). A dynamic, ...

ITK Has Moved to Git!

Published on July 27, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, ITK

We're pleased to announce the completion of the ITK repository conversion from CVS to Git. The CVS repositories for Insight and InsightApplications have been permanently frozen. Development of IT...

DARPA Awards Kitware a $13.8 Million Contract for Online Threat Detection and Forensic Analysis in Wide-Area Motion Imagery

Published on July 19, 2010
Related sites: Kitware, Computer Vision

Kitware has received a $13,883,314 contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a software system capable of automatically and interactively discovering actionable int...

ITK 3.20 Now Available

Published on July 15, 2010
Related sites: ITK, Medical Imaging

We are pleased to announce the release of ITK 3.20. Source files and download instructions are available at
http://itk.org/ITK/resources/s...

MIDAS 2.6.0 Available

Published on July 09, 2010
Related sites: MIDAS, Data Management

Kitware is proud to announce a major release of its digital archiving and distributed system. This 2.6 release implements more than 20 new features and fixed more than 50 bugs.

Among the ne...

A New Approach to Quantifying Risk of Developing Lung Cancer is published in Academic Radiology

Published on June 29, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, Kitware

Groundbreaking study finds a strong association between airway bifurcation CT densities, loss of lung function and lung cancer risk

CLIFTON PARK, NY - J...

Kitware Sponsors Tutorial Contest at Summer 2010 NA-MIC Project Week

Published on June 29, 2010
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Kitware, sponsors of the Tutorial Contest at the 11th NA-MIC PROJECT WEEK, would like to congratulation the winners of the Winter 2010 NA-MIC Tutorial Contest!

1st Prize for End Us...

Second European IGSTK User Group Meeting

Published on June 28, 2010
Related sites: IGSTK, Medical Imaging

The second European IGSTK user group meeting was held on June 22, 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was held the evening before the beginning of the Computer Aided Radiology and Surgery (CA...

Kitware and Lung Cancer Alliance Announce the First Publicly Available Lung Cancer Database Created Through Patient Data Donations

Published on June 08, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, Data Management, Kitware, MIDAS

Patients participated in the Give A Scan pilot program to collect and contribute their CT image datasets and patient history records to an open image ...

Activity Recognition Conference

Published on May 11, 2010
Related sites: Computer Vision, Kitware

Kitware, in conjunction with DARPA, is organizing the International Workshop on Frontiers of Activity Recognition as part of the DARPA V...

ITK 3.18 Now Available for Ubuntu 10.04

Published on May 05, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, ITK, VTK

Thanks to Dr. Paul Novotny ITK 3.18 is now available for Ubuntu 10.04. Ubuntu 10.04 (codenamed the Lucid Lynx) is the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system. As always this Ubuntu packaging ...

Kitware Awarded A $369,588 Contract from The Army Corps of Engineers To Extend Study in Hydrodynamic Simulation

Published on April 27, 2010
Related sites: Kitware, Scientific Vis, Paraview, VTK

Proposed research to extend computational model building in the area of Coastal Modeling Sys...

An Update on VTK's Git Conversion

Published on April 20, 2010
Related sites: ITK, Kitware, Scientific Vis, Paraview, VTK

We're pleased to announce the completion of the repository conversion. The CVS repositories have been permanently frozen (an extra commit will be added to them to help direct folks that t...

Adopt A Bug 2.0

Published on April 19, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, ITK, Kitware, VTK

The ITK development team is hosting another bugathon with Adopt-A-Bug 2.0. Users can volunteer to adopt-a-bug. In doing so you agree to either fix the bug, or pester/motivate/encourage de...

CDash 1.6.4 Released

Published on April 16, 2010
Related sites: CDash, CMake, Software Process

Kitware is proud to announce the release of CDash 1.6.4. This is a minor release for CDash 1.6 and does not require any database upgrade. CDash the open-source, web-based software testing server, a...

DARPA Awards Kitware with $99,000 to Pioneer Adaptive, Geospatial Visual Information System

Published on April 16, 2010
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Research to increase safety and effectiveness of missions by improving battlefield information delivery

Kitware has received a $99,000 gra...

VTK and ParaView to Make Transition to Git

Published on April 16, 2010
Related sites: CDash, CMake, ITK, Kitware, Paraview, VTK

Over the next few days we will transition both VTK and ParaView to Git. Additional details are available on these Wiki pages (under development):

ITK 3.18 Now Available

Published on April 15, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, ITK, IGSTK, VTK

ITK 3.18 is now available for download. The main changes in this release include:

Improvements in im...

VTK 5.6

Published on April 05, 2010
Related sites: Medical Imaging, Informatics, Scientific Vis, Paraview, VTK

Kitware is planning to release VTK 5.6 this spring. Since the previous release, 270 new C++ classes have been added. The new features in VTK include improved support for line charts...

ParaView 3.8

Published on April 05, 2010
Related sites: Informatics, Scientific Vis, Paraview

Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory are proud to announce the release of ParaView 3.8. The binaries and sources are available for download from the ParaView web...

Kitware Awarded $600K NIH Grant to Advance Neurosurgical Simulation

Published on April 05, 2010
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Kitware has received a two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling more than $600,000 to focus research efforts on developing approach-specific, multi-GPU, multi-tool, high...

CMake 2.8.1

Published on April 05, 2010
Related sites: CMake, CDash, Software Process

We are happy to announce the release of CMake 2.8.1. This is a minor release from 2.8.0. In addition to addressing many issues, this version of CMake adds some new features as well....

CDash 1.6.2 Released

Published on February 09, 2010
Related sites: CDash, CMake, Software Process

Kitware is proud to announce the release of CDash 1.6.2. CDash the open-source, web-based software testing server,&nbs...

Kitware Launches Developer Blog

Published on January 28, 2010
Related sites: BatchMake, CDash, CMake, IGSTK, ITK, Kitware, MIDAS, Paraview, VTK

Kitware launched its first developer blog today which will be penned by Kitware's Res...

Kitware Announces the VTK Journal

Published on January 27, 2010
Related sites: Kitware, VTK, Medical Imaging, Data Management, Scientific Vis, Paraview

Recently the VTK community has established an on-line VTK Journal. Like its sister, the

MIDAS 2.4.2 Available

Published on January 27, 2010
Related sites: Data Management, MIDAS

Kitware is proud to announce the second major release of its digital archiving and distributed system since June 2009. This 2.4 release implements more than 20 new features.

Among the new f...