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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 325,000 downloads. In the field, 3D Slicer is applied to research and applications that range from preclinical animal studies to surgical planning, surgical guidance, medical robot control, 3D printing […]

Recently, the Insight Toolkit (ITK) was made available in binary Python packages. While these packages make the core high-performance, multi-dimensional image analysis capabilities more accessible in Python, the brilliant researchers in the broader ITK community have additional advanced algorithms to contribute. They can now distribute extensions to the toolkit as Python packages from ITK Modules! […]

Kitware Maps Development of Toolkit for Image and Video Analysis Kitware released version 1.1 of the Kitware Image and Video Exploitation and Retrieval (KWIVER) open-source toolkit before the 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Members of the computer vision team at Kitware appeared at the CVPR industry exposition to accent this […]

NVIDIA Index™ Plug-in for ParaView Gets Updated NVIDIA Index™ is a commercial software that enables the use of graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters for real-time visualization of large volumetric and polygonal datasets. ParaView users became able to try Index™ for volume rendering in ParaView for the first time in 2015. Since then, new efforts have […]

On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.12.2! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform library for multidimensional image analysis. Download ITK This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and compiler support. This release includes better compatibility when building an […]

How do we extract meaningful information from scientific images in spite of ubiquitous noise? Edge-preserving image smoothing removes noise as a pre-processing step for visualization or analysis. A number of edge-preserving image processing filters are available in the Insight Toolkit (ITK), such as the bilateral image filter. An anisotropic diffusion filter that delivers excellent edge-preserving […]

We are pleased to announce the release of Tomviz 1.1.0. A recent article offers some background on the Tomviz project. This release fixes issues seen on some Windows machines affecting the 3D rendering capabilities. It also features an updated ITK package, adding support for segmenting pores, as well as updates to ParaView/VTK libraries. We have […]

On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.12.1! Download ITK This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and compiler support. Of the numerous issues addressed in this release, most notable are fixes to enable compilation of ITK on […]

We previously announced that the ITK Python wrapping is now available in the Python Package Index (PyPI) [1]. Starting to develop Python scripts using ITK filters is one command line away: python -m pip install itk Python is a scripting language that allows fast development and is widely used in the scientific community. You can […]

Introduction The post presents texture quantification algorithms that provide a statistical description of the local texture of a 2D, 3D or N-D image.  The N-Dimensional texture maps are generated with a high performance algorithm and multi-threaded implementation in the Insight Toolkit (ITK). The software is packaged for Python and in a 3D Slicer extension. We […]

scikit-build is an improved build system generator for CPython C extensions. It provides better support for additional compilers, build systems, cross compilation, and locating dependencies and their associated build requirements. The project started during the 2014 SciPy Conference Sprints by Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Michael Sarahan, Matthew McCormick, and Anthony Scopatz out of frustration with how difficult […]

The Python Package Index (PyPI), also known as the Cheese Shop, is the official and most extensive collection of Python packages; there are currently over 110,000 packages on PyPI. The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is a comprehensive open-source toolkit for multidimensional image analysis. ITK’s Python wrapping is now readily installable from any standard CPython installation via […]

Kitware distributes toolkit packages in multiple formats. Kitware issued links to the 4.12 release of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) on the ITK website. Python wheel packages served as a pillar of the release. With Python bindings, developers can use all ITK functions in Python. “Accessible computational methods enable researchers to reproduce advanced […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.12 release candidate 2 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please take this opportunity to test the new features in the release candidate. For more information on the new features in this release, see our blog entry on the […]

Kitware is proud to be a sponsor of and have our tools featured at… Slicer Project Week – Canada! July 17 – 21, 2017 Robarts Research Institute Western University London, Ontario, Canada This Slicer Project Week is a hands-on activity in which medical image computing researchers and students create solutions using the image computing platform,  3D […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.12 release candidate 1 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please take this opportunity to test the new features in the release candidate. To obtain the source code, use the links: https://github.com/Kitware/ITK/archive/v4.12rc01.zip https://github.com/Kitware/ITK/archive/v4.12rc01.tar.gz   Morphological watershed segmentation of a […]

Team members embrace new positions. Kitware continued its transitions in team management and organizational structure with four promotions. “This year, our offices in New York, North Carolina, New Mexico and France have undergone significant growth, particularly in data and analytics,” said Lisa Avila, the president and CEO of Kitware. “We are happy to recognize the […]