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3D Slicer is a free, open source, extensible application for visualization and image analysis. It is widely used in the field of medical computing, with over 425,000 downloads. In the field, 3D Slicer is applied to research and applications that range from preclinical animal studies to surgical planning, to surgical guidance, to medical robot control, […]

We are happy to announce the first beta release for ITK 5! Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) This release features an additional, more Pythonic interface to filters. This interface is more familiar in Python and facilitates rapid prototyping. ITK 5.0 Beta 1 also includes many performance-related improvements, such as a pure C++11 thread pool […]

ParaView Glance supports polygonal, molecular, point cloud, and medical data visualization on desktops and phones. ParaView Glance allows you to interactively view a variety of 3D data in your web browser using hardware-accelerated visualization techniques such as volume rendering. It is particularly well-suited for quickly exploring LIDAR point-cloud data, volumetric medical images (such as MRI […]

On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.13.1! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform library for multidimensional image analysis. Download ITK 4.13.1 To install or upgrade Python packages with pip: python -m pip install --upgrade pip python -m pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager […]

Kitware is proud to announce the release of ParaView Glance. ParaView Glance brings together the latest web technologies for interactive scientific data visualization in your browser.  It can be launched from web pages or from your desktop to quickly view volume rendered images, geometries, molecules, point clouds, and much more. Kitware is committed to providing […]

In the past year and a half, our company has grown considerably, adding two dozen employees, a Data and Analytics team and a new location in Arlington, VA. This growth was made possible by the professional development of our team, which has allowed us to expand our technical expertise, scientific impact and customer base. On […]

We held a 2-day course at Kitware’s Carrboro branch office in North Carolina focused on open source software tools for biomedical image analysis and visualization. The course was designed for clinical researchers and technologists with biomedical imaging background who are interested in learning and developing ITK, VTK and 3D Slicer. These are open source libraries […]

ITK 5.0 Alpha 2 is ready for testing! Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) ITK 5.0 Alpha 2 emphasizes performance improvements: 1) A refactored multithreading infrastructure, 2) in ITK 5, a thread pool is available by default, 3) an Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) threading backend with dynamic region splitting, 4) improved image iterator performance, […]

Post last updated: October 24th, 2019. The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is not only a foundation for the practice of image analysis in industry and academia; ITK has been studied and used to demonstrate principles of scientific and medical image analysis in many university courses around the world. If you are not able to attend Kitware’s […]

ITK 5.0 Alpha 1 is ready for testing! Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) ITK 5.0 brings dramatic improvements to ITK’s API and performance. At the same time, there are minimal changes that break backwards compatibility. This the first in a series of alpha releases to enable the community to test and improve these major […]

Ultrasound has become a catalyst for innovation, new insights, and improved methods in a wide range of clinical procedures and medical research applications. A longstanding centerpiece in the practice of obstetrics, cardiology, and radiology, ultrasound research and development activity has surged in the past few years. This surge is evident in the double-digit growth rate […]

In this post we describe Vcpkg, a tool created by Microsoft that helps acquire and build open source C and C++ libraries. On Windows, downloading, building, and installing the libraries that a project requires can be difficult and time-consuming. First, you must locate and download each library from its own server or repository. Next, you […]

A singular moment in the practice of commercializing research occurred in the mid-1960s when Gatorade was formulated [1]. Since that time billions of dollars of total revenue, and tens of millions of research dollars have been reaped by the University of Florida. Such successful commercialization of this and many other academically-derived technologies are generating increasing […]

On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.13.0! Download ITK Here are a few selected highlights for this release: ITK is on PyPI: install ITK’s Python wrapping with: pip install itk IsotropicWavelets remote module: isotropic and steerable wavelets in the frequency domain […]

Introduction A long time ago, not long after I joined Kitware I was a little shocked that we were still using CVS and didn’t have a company blog, I was asked to work on a project called Titan (no longer an active open source project as far as I know). As part of this project […]

A recent article by Google’s Felipe Hoffa recognized Kitware as a top contributor to GitHub in 2017. At 51, we rank right between CERN and SUSE. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research—one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research—and SUSE is known as the first provider of an Enterprise […]

Don’t worry about the pixel type In previous posts about the Insight Toolkit (ITK), we talked about installing ITK Python packages from PyPI, sharing data between ITK and NumPy, and even create your own ITK module with its Python wrapping automatically generated. This post will use examples from the NumPy post and explain in more […]