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The second release candidate for the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) 4.11 is now ready to test. For more information on the new features in this release, see our blog entry on the first release candidate. Insight Journal article included as a Remote Module, PrincipalComponentsAnalysis: Principal Components Analysis of Scalar, Vector, and Mesh Vertex […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.11 release candidate 1 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please take this opportunity to test the new features in the release candidate. Insight Journal article included as a Remote Module, DVMeshNoise: Perturbing Mesh Vertices with Additive Gaussian Noise. […]

Good software relies on software quality practices such as Continuous Integration (CI) to maintain high standards of reliability, efficiency, security, maintainability, and size. These practices lower costs and reduce risk by identifying problems earlier, giving organizations the agility and confidence to try out new architectural directions, features, and dependency changes.  At Kitware, we have a long history of […]

The new ITK release 4.11.0 is planned for December, 15th. There are still a few weeks to work on new features and to improve the existing ones. That is, to contribute and to be part of one of the greatest efforts and challenges that has existed since a long time within the open-source community. Developing […]

ITK-SNAP [1] is a software application that segments structures in three-dimensional (3D) biomedical images. The application is free, open source, and multiplatform. Over the last several years, the application has undergone significant refactoring and expansion. It now includes a modern, Qt based graphical user interface; extensive support for segmenting multi-modality and multi-parametric imaging datasets; and […]

First Hackfest Upgrades Girder In August, Kitware held the first Girder hackfest to enhance the open-source, web-based platform for data management. Over 20 participants attended the all-day hackfest, during which they made a variety of improvements to Girder. For starters, participants continued to work on a major overhaul of the front-end build infrastructure. Sébastien Barré […]

In a previous blog post, I showed some basic segmentation algorithms recently added to Tomviz. These algorithms produce labeled images where a voxel’s label indicates the object to which it belongs. Electron tomography image data may contain artifacts such as noise and reconstruction error, so it is often necessary to clean up mislabeled voxels in the segmentation […]

The first PyData Carolinas Conference was held from September 14-16, 2016 at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The event was very successful with over 350 attendees and every room packed in three parallel tracks, which reflects the technological energy for Python in data science in the Carolinas. Kitware participated with a number of […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit Community, we are happy to announce that ITK 4.10.1 is available for download. Release files can be downloaded from: http://itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and compiler support. Of the numerous issues addressed in this release, most notable is a fix to the ITK […]

New features added to Tomviz enhance support for the computation and viewing of segmentation and analysis algorithm results. Segmentation Algorithms Available Tomviz 0.9.1 offers some basic segmentation algorithms to apply to data. Each segmentation algorithm produces a “label map” which is a labeling of each voxel in the current dataset. The “Binary Threshold” data transform computes a label […]

Kitware is releasing the VTK Textbook and VTK User’s Guide for PDF download. Follow the links below to a landing page where you can buy a printed version, or download a PDF. If you wish to buy several copies, contact us for a sweet deal. Longer term, the plan is to convert these books to […]

Last week, we held the first ever Girder hackfest. Girder is an open-source, Web-based, data management platform. As a component of the Resonant environment, it has use cases throughout data and analytics, from visualizing taxi rides in New York City to comparing permit, crime, and violation data in Boston. Over 20 participants attended the all-day […]

Ten years ago, Stephen Aylward and Julien Jomier opened the first Carrboro, North Carolina, office location for Kitware. Currently, Kitware employs over 30 team members in Carrboro. To accommodate growth, Kitware recently renovated a 10,000 square-foot office space. The space houses an open floor plan with large windows, which overlook the picnic tables and greenery […]

We are very pleased to announce the release of tomviz 0.9.0 (article on Opensource.com with some background). This release adds several new features, with significant user interface updates. We also attended our third M&M conference along with our collaborators at Cornell, and showed a few posters highlighting new features. Highlights of this release include: The […]

ParaView 5.1 ParaView 5.1 brought the process of ray tracing to the open-source application for data analysis and visualization. This process utilizes the OSPRay library from Intel. The latest release also brought the capability to render picture-in-picture visualizations to ParaView. On top of rendering capabilities, ParaView gained several filters with the release. A new collection […]

Christian Herz, Kemal Tuncali, and Andrey Fedorov successfully used the SliceTracker extension of 3D Slicer (Fedorov et al., 2012a) to support an in-bore transperineal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided biopsy procedure. The clinical research procedure was performed under institutional review board (IRB) approval in the Advanced Multimodal Image-Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite of Brigham and Women’s […]

Conference Seeks Proposals In a post on the Kitware blog, Stephen Aylward, the senior director of operations – North Carolina at Kitware and an International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) grand challenges chair, advocated for teams to submit proposals for grand challenges for ISBI. The grand challenges aim to advance the field of medical image […]