Data Publishing News

Kitware Continues to Grow in August

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Kitware welcomed four new employees to the team in August. Yiliang Xu started with the computer vision team, Yuzheng Zhou joined the MIDAS team, Chris Hyatt joined the systems administration team, and Ann Murtha joined the human resources team.

Yiliang Xu joined as an R&D engineer on the computer vision team at the Clifton Park office. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, earned his first Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and his second Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University. As a Ph.D. research assistant, Dr. Xu worked with systems and algorithms for automated collaborative observation using networked robotic cameras. He also designed and implemented a flying bird tracking and species recognition system using active sensing, and an online panoramic

Kitware Awarded DOE Funding to Develop Climate Change Analysis Tool

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Kitware SBIR funding to develop an analysis tool with easy, simplified access to computer model outputs resulting from long-term climate change projections performed by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

The application, ClimatePipes, will facilitate access to data for non-researchers, as opposed to a more technical audience. Kitware believes that effective analysis in climate science relies on having the appropriate cyberinfrastructure to enable people to discover, access, manipulate, and visualize large and complex datasets of interest. Facilitating widespread accessibility of this data can have a significant impact on commercial, educational, and government activities.

In Phase I of this project, Kitware will create a prototype application that demonstrates simple data access and manipulation, and basic analysis, visualization, and data provenance.

"ClimatePipes will provide access to data that can have a real impact

Kitware Team Grows in July

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Kitware welcomed five new employees and one intern in July. Matthew Dawkins, Paul Tunison, and Nick Sullivan joined the computer vision group. Chris Harris joined the scientific visualization team, and Matthew McCormick joined the medical team. Benjamin Long is an intern who will be working on MIDAS for the next year.

Matthew Dawkins joined the computer vision team as an R&D engineer at the Clifton Park office. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He has previous experience as an intern for Digital Receiver Technology, a Boeing subsidiary, where he assisted in the development of embedded software applications for the protocol engineering department.

Paul Tunison started with Kitware in November 2010 as a computer vision

MIDASDesktop 1.8.2 Released

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Kitware is pleased to announce the release of MIDASDesktop 1.8.2. MIDAS Desktop is a client-side GUI application for synchronizing data and metadata between a user's local filesystem and a MIDAS server. It also manages, searches, and organizes datasets in both the client and server datastores.

A major update included in this release is that MIDASDesktop and MIDAScli are now built as application wrapping libraries that are part of the Common Toolkit (CTK). By porting much of the bulk of MIDASDesktop’s functionality into CTK, older library dependencies were replaced with better functionality such as that which exists within Qt. These changes will allow users to pause and resume file uploads and downloads, and also push selected subtrees of their data using drag and drop. The default directory has also

Kitware Supports the VA's Open Source EHR

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Kitware is pleased to announce that it will be providing open-source expertise to the Informatics Applications Group (tiag) in support of the Department of Veteran Affair’s initiative to create a Custodial Agent for an Open Source Electronic Health Record. Visit osehrca.org for more information and to provide feedback.

Kitware Offers Free Access to VolView

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Kitware has announced that VolView, a commercial product for exploring and analyzing complex 3D medical or scientific data, will now be available free of charge to researchers around the world.

First developed in 1999 as an intuitive, interactive system for volume visualization, VolView allows users to load and interactively explore datasets using both 2D and 3D display methods. To view a short demonstration, please click here.

Compatible with Windows, Mac or Linux, VolView is capable of volume rendering, maximum intensity projections and oblique reformatting. In addition, VolView can load multiple datasets simultaneously, support creating and applying 2D a

Kitware Announces Opening of European Office

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Lyon office allows the Company to continue its expansion
into European markets and better service its current
European customers and collaborators

CLIFTON PARK, NY – October 25, 2010 – Kitware, a software services company that builds open-source platforms and develops advanced research solutions, today announced the opening of its European Office Kitware SAS. Located in Lyon, France, the office will be headed by Julien Jomier, a current Kitware U.S. employee with expertise in software process, medical ima

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

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400

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 list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Music website Pandora, convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Brooklyn Brewery, and Radio Flyer, maker of the iconic children’s red wagon, are among the prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

“The leaders of the companies on this year’s Inc. 5000 have figured out how to grow their businesses during the longest recession since the Great Depression,” said Inc. president Bob LaPointe. “The 2010 Inc. 5000 showcases a particularly hardy group of entrepreneurs.”

Kitware, Inc. is a leader in the creation and support of open- source software

Kitware Welcomes Nine New Employees, Looking to Hire More

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Kitware welcomes several new employees to the team:

Jacob Becker

Jacob joined Kitware's Computer Vision Group in October 2009 as an R&D Engineer. Jacob received his B.S. in Computer Science and Archaeology from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (UW-L) in 2001 and his M.S. in Computer Science from RPI in 2009. While at RPI he researched aligning a 2D image to a 3D model and filling in holes in LiDAR data using evidence provided by a single aligned 2D image.

Aasish Chaudhary

Aashish joined Kitware's Scientific Computing Group in October 2009 as an R&D Engineer. Aashish received his B.S. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from Devhi Ahilya University (India) in 2000 and his M.S. in Industrial Engineering with minor in Computer Science from Iowa State University. His thesis work involved researching, design

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

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400

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 for improved clinical care. A critical step to maximize the long-term positive impact of MICCAI cutting-edge algorithms is to enable their deployment, validation and concrete use by the clinical research community for whom they were developed.

For the past six years, the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), one of the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC), part of the NIH Roadmap for medical research, has focused its efforts on the conversion of scientific advances from the biomedical imaging community into open-source resources for users and developers, in order to improve the availability and deployment of advanced software tools on a national and international scale.

The objective of the tutorial is to introduce the challen

MIDAS 2.6.0 Available

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

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 new features of the 2.6 release:

• Better search facility
• Support for WebDAV
• Support for DICOM push/query/retrieve
• Support for comments and ratings
• Support for project workflow
• Upgraded CakePHP framework to version 1.3
• Better integration with BatchMake
• Release of a C++ API for remote management
• Release of the companion GUI application: MIDASDesktop 1.0

We encourage users to download and try the latest release and join the mailing list.

Kitware's public instance of MIDAS is available at http://insight-journal.org/midas, hosting hundreds of freely available scientific and medical datasets. For more information regarding MIDAS, visit 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 archive; the data is now freely downloadable to help research efforts geared toward understanding, detecting and treating lung cancer

CLIFTON PARK, NY - June 8, 2010 - Kitware and Lung Cancer Alliance announce the release of the first group of lung cancer patient records now publicly available for download at GiveAScan.org.

This open image archive represents the successful completion of a pilot project to determine the feasibility of a patient donated database to accelerate medical research. This initial nine patient database includes over 1 GB of radiological imaging studies including Computed Tomography (CT) scans, volunteered by patients to accelerate lung cancer research including screening, computer

MIDAS 2.4.2 Available

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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 features of the 2.4 release:

Redesigned Image Gallery
Improved LDAP Support
Support for Plug-ins
Improved server-side upload
Custom upload workflows
Better BatchMake integration with custom reporting

We encourage users to download and try the latest release and join the mailing list.

MIDAS Goes Open Source

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Kitware is proud to announce that MIDAS is now available under a non-restrictive (BSD) open-source license. For the past year, MIDAS has been generating a lot of interest from the research community and we believe that opening its source code will lead to a better archiving and processing system. Starting with the new MIDAS release (2.4), MIDAS will be an open-source toolkit. We encourage users and developers to subscribe to the mailing list and report bugs and features requests.

MIDAS is a digital archiving and dissemination system written in PHP with a PostgreSQL backend. MIDAS is an extensible platform that allows developers to extend its functionality via plug-ins. The MIDAS framework combines a web front end with a database and supports media-filters for upload depending on the data type. For ins

Kitware Announces the VTK Journal

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Recently the VTK community has established an on-line VTK Journal. Like its sister, the Insight Journal, the VTK Journal supports open access publication, open data and open source to foster the growth of Open Science. We encourage you to visit and contribute articles and/or reviews to the VTK Journal.

Currently there are two articles in the Journal, with two more pending final publication. Once these two articles go live later today, the VTK users and developers lists will receive an automated email notifying the community of their availability. This is your cue to review and/or try out the submissions. This process will continue for future article submissions.

Kitware's open access journals are built on the MIDAS multimedia and data publication system. MIDAS, which is now an open source technology, is a general framework on which Kitware builds cu

Kitware Wins Phase I NLM SBIR for Biomedical Research

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Kitware has been awarded a Phase I SBIR by the National Library of Medicine to develop a flexible information visualization and analysis platform for biomedical research. This contracted effort will develop tools in support of ‘omics (genomics, proteomics, metabalomics) research by enabling the visualization of interrelated data in publicly available databases. Kitware is teamed with Michelle Williams from the University of Washington and Thomas O’Connell from the University of North Carolina.

Publication Database 1.2

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

In conjunction with the overhauling of the MIDAS 2.2 framework,the Publication Database version 1.2 was also released this month. The Publication Database collects, manages and disseminates publications. Thanks to automatic import tools established in this release, importing papers from and searching for publications submitted by your institution has never been easier.

The Publication Database is based on open standards and ensures that submitted publications are referenced by major search engines, thus greatly improving the dissemination of current research and the publishing activities completed by your institution. The system also allows dynamically exporting, via web services, the content of the database to external websites, for instance listing the most recent publications for a user.

The Publication Database is currently used by the Surgical Planning Labo

3-D Snapshots of Eyes Reveal Details of Age-Related Blindness

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Colleen Morrison
The Optical Society
202.416.1437
cmorri@osa.org

Devin Powell
American Institute of Physics
301.209.3099
dpowell@aip.org

Interactive Science Publishing Helps Researchers Examine the Problems of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Unprecedented Detail

WASHINGTON, March 19- To get a better look at the abnormalities that cause age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss in Americans and Europeans over 50, the research groups of James Fujimoto at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and collaborators Jay Duker of the Tufts University School of Medicine, and Joel Schuman of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have created ultra-detailed 3-D images of the eyes of more than 2,000 people

Shining Light on Diabetes-Related Blindness

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Interactive Science Publishing Gives Researchers a Closer Look at a New Way
to Spot Leaky Blood Vessels in the Eyes

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11— A group of scientists in California is trying to develop a cheaper, less invasive way to spot the early stages of retinal damage from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in American adults, before it leads to blindness. As described in the special Interactive Science Publishing (ISP) issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal, the scientists are using beams of light to measure blood flow in the back of the eye.

“The more severe the retinopathy, the lower the blood flow to the retina,” say

Kitware, OSA release software for Interactive Scientific Publishing

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Technology Enables Researchers to Interact with Author Data

Clifton Park, NY October 29 – Kitware is pleased to announce the launch of OSA’s Interactive Science Publishing (ISP) system. ISP is the first open-access scientific publication system that allows authors to distribute imaging datasets and advanced visualizations over the Internet for interactive display. The dissemination of information and data using novel software technology and systems falls directly in line with Kitware’s organizational goals and its efforts to advance publishing systems for open science. OSA ISP is a unique publishing system that enables researchers to create active publications supporting direct interaction with the data referred to in the publication.

“Kitware is delighted to have partnered with the Optical Society of America and the National Library of Medicine to develop and la