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The third CMake 4.0 release candidate!

The second CMake 4.0 release candidate!

The 42nd Slicer Project Week (PW42) took place from January 27-31, 2025, in Gran Canaria, Spain. This bi-annual gathering brought together researchers, developers, and medical imaging professionals from around the world to collaborate on the open source 3D Slicer platform. From integrating advanced AI workflows to improving core functionalities, participants seized the opportunity to push the boundaries of medical imaging and visualization.

The first CMake 4.0 release candidate!

In the ever-evolving field of medical imaging research, managing complex datasets and ensuring smooth data workflows is often challenging. The processing steps involved, such as image normalization, segmentation, registration, and statistical analysis, must be carefully orchestrated to ensure both accuracy and reproducibility. As part of our collaborative research project with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on osteoarthritis, we've turned to Dagster–a powerful open source data orchestration tool, to manage our data pipelines.

We are pleased to announce the release of ITK 5.4.2, the latest maintenance update for this cross-platform, open-source toolkit supporting N-dimensional scientific image analysis with spatially-aware algorithms.    This patch release addresses several key issues identified since ITK 5.4.0 while maintaining API stability.  Highlights As a maintenance update following 5.4.0, version 5.4.2 incorporates critical improvements including: A full […]

This is the second in a two-part series covering some of the improvements to the CAVEInteraction plugin that have come out of Kitware’s recent collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).   The first post discussed the benefits of writing your own custom Python interactor styles for the CAVE. In this installment, […]

This blog serves as a follow-up to our previous blog on confidently navigating Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) product development. In that blog, we explored the foundational principles and challenges of SaMD development. Here, we focus on the tools and processes we employ to ensure the development of high-quality AI components as part of SaMD products. Our approach leverages advanced open source tools and rigorous engineering practices, helping organizations build AI pipelines that meet FDA and clinical requirements.

ITK 5.4.0 has been released!

CMake 3.31.4 available for download

The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. The ITK Maintenance Hackathon aims to bring together ITK developers and new users to learn how to use ITK tools for scientific image processing. Our goal is to make comprehensive improvements across the entire ITK ecosystem. Why Attend? […]

This is the first in a two-part series of posts describing recent improvements to the CAVEInteraction plugin.  As it’s the first, some introduction and background about the plugin is warranted. CAVEInteraction Plugin The CAVEInteraction plugin has been included with ParaView for many years, although prior to ParaView 5.11.0 it was named VRPlugin.  The name was […]

Ten years ago, I wrote this series of blogs introducing a (then) new way of interfacing VTK and NumPy. In the first blog, I had a teaser that I then expanded on: Over the last year, we have introduced a simpler and more pythonic interface. As of VTK 9.4, the code above can be expressed […]

This is a guest blog post from Jonathan Windgassen and Jens Henrik Göbbert, both developing the software stack at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. They have agreed to share with us the integration of trame, jupyter lab and ParaView to ease the life of their scientists. As a bonus they include the code to […]

CMake 3.31.2 available for download

As 2024 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on a year marked by remarkable achievements and technological strides at Kitware. From transforming environmental monitoring to advancing medical research and training, Kitware’s collaborative efforts have resulted in innovative solutions that positively impact our partners and community. This article highlights some of our most impactful projects and open source tools in 2024 and demonstrates our commitment to solving real-world challenges with cutting-edge technology in the years to come.

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) release planning team is happy to announce that v9.4.0 is now available.  For source, data, documentation, and Python wheel packages, please visit the VTK download page. Detailed release notes are published at https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/blob/v9.4.0/Documentation/release/9.4.md Although this is a minor release, many enhancements have been made since v9.3.1. Some of the changes are […]

CMake 3.30.6 available for download