Specifications may not be the most glamorous aspect of software, but they are essential. Just now, your web browser used the HTTP protocol specification to fetch this blog post written following the HTML specification using letters specified by the Unicode standard. These specifications allow you to view this blog post using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, […]
CI: Continuous IntegrationMR: Merge RequestPR: Pull Request In the VTK/ParaView ecosystem, there are a number of projects that rely on VTK and ParaView as dependency and are not part of VTK/ParaView per se, eg Flow3D, Salome, Themys, F3D, PVGeo, vtk-dicom, pyvista, vedo, meshio, slicer, CTK, cmb, ttk. It has always been complex for these kind […]
Kitware is excited to announce major updates to the SlicerSkeletalRepresentation extension, which revamps using, displaying, and storing skeletal representations (s-reps). These updates were developed as part of SlicerSALT for easier use and reuse of skeletal representations. What is an s-rep? S-reps are skeletal models that have been used for representing the shape of a wide […]
CMake 3.23.2 available for download
May 25, 2022
CMake 3.23.2 is available for download
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.3 Release Candidate 3 is available for testing! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. ITK 5.3 is a feature release that accelerates performance, provides new segmentation and shape analysis algorithms, improves documentation, among many more improvements. For more […]
Kitware produces software that uses AI and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies to advance the field of digital pathology in collaboration with academic researchers and clinicians. At the center of this effort is the Digital Slide Archive (DSA), an open-source platform, for centralized data management, sharing, annotating, and analyzing whole-slide imaging datasets, which continues to be […]
Announcing the Release of SMTK 22.04
May 2, 2022
We are pleased to announce the release of SMTK. 22.04. Its major improvements include: New Resource Properties We have extended the default property types for SMTK Resources to include sets of integers and coordinate frame information. The coordinate frame property includes an origin point and 3 orthonormal vectors specifying a change of basis. In addition, […]
ITK Examples Hackathon 2022
April 20, 2022
The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. Documentation for the toolkit ranges from the ITK Software Guide textbook, to Doxygen API reference material, to C++ and Python examples. The ITK Examples hackathon aims to bring together ITK developers and new users to expand documentation and […]
The open source TensorBoard-Plugin3D allows medical image deep learning researchers to analyze their deep learning workflows and 3D data all in one tool.
CMake 3.22.4 available for download
April 12, 2022
CMake 3.22.4 is available for download
CMake 3.23.0-rc4 is ready for testing
March 18, 2022
The fourth CMake 3.23 release candidate!
ParaView 5.10.1 Release Notes
March 15, 2022
ParaView 5.10.1 is a patch release with a variety of bug fixes. The full list of issues addressed by this release is available here. User interface State files appear as datasets. (details) File dialog issues in client/server mode (details) Stride in Animation View is too restricted(details) Context menu in file dialog doesn’t work on macOS […]
Adding the Topology ToolKit (TTK) to ParaView
March 3, 2022
Topological Data Analysis is coming to ParaView! The Topology ToolKit (TTK) is now available in the ParaView nightly and in the latest release (v5.10), as well as in the ParaView Superbuild. TTK is a collection of filters specific to Topological Data Analysis (Contour tree, Morse-Smale Complex, Topological Simplification, …). You can load this plugin using […]
Announcing the Release of SMTK 22.02
February 28, 2022
We are pleased to announce the release of SMTK. 22.02. Its major improvements include the following: Improvements to the SMTK’s Attribute Resource The Ability to Control Category Inheritance in Attribute Definitions Previously, a derived attribute definition would inherit all of the categories related to its base definition. Any categories imposed by the derived definition would […]
Pulse 4.1 Release
February 28, 2022
On behalf of the Pulse Physiology Community, we are pleased to announce that version 4.1 is now available. We have continued to assist companies, universities, and government agencies to integrate Pulse into their projects and product goals. We worked with these users to improve models and functionality for their needs. The 4.1 version release includes […]
Deep-learning surrogate models in ParaView: Viewing inference results and monitoring the training process in real time with Catalyst.
February 25, 2022
This article describes two recent developments concerning the integration of Deep-learning techniques in ParaView. First, ParaView has been adapted to visualize the results produced by a deep-learning-based surrogate model in real time. Next, Catalyst has been used to monitor the training process of this model. Context A surrogate model (of a numerical simulation) approximates a […]
Introducing SlicerPipelines: A coding-free way to create simple modules in 3D Slicer
February 17, 2022
Kitware is excited to introduce a new extension, SlicerPipelines, that allows the creation and use of simple modules in 3D Slicer without coding. This extension was developed as part of SlicerSALT and has been added to the Slicer Extensions Index for the open source community to use. What is a Pipeline? We define a pipeline […]
Kitware Enhances AI Infrastructure for Scientific Applications Under Department of Energy Grant
January 26, 2022
Kitware’s Data and Analytics Team is building an open source software platform called OASIS, Open source AI Software Infrastructure for Science, for researchers in the scientific domain. OASIS provides a data API to ingest and serve scientific data formats and annotations within AI workflows. It delivers a unique integration of features such as coupling of […]