CMake 3.13.0-rc3 is ready for testing
November 7, 2018
I am proud to announce the third CMake 3.13 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ The first 3.13.0 release candidates included a change to allow generator expressions in “install(CODE)” and “install(SCRIPT)”. This has been reverted in rc2 due to breaking backwards compatibility. See issue 18435. Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.13 Release notes appear below and are also published […]

CMake 3.13.0-rc2 is ready for testing
October 25, 2018
I am proud to announce the second CMake 3.13 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ The first 3.13.0 release candidates included a change to allow generator expressions in “install(CODE)” and “install(SCRIPT)”. This has been reverted in rc2 due to breaking backwards compatibility. See issue 18435. Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.13 Release notes appear below and are also published […]

CMake 3.13.0-rc1 is ready for testing
October 9, 2018
I am proud to announce the first CMake 3.13 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.13 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.13/release/3.13.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.13 are: The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above learned to support the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and supporting […]

ParaView Spatio-Temporal Parallelism Revised
September 28, 2018
As Andy Bauer described a long while back in the Kitware blog, ParaView provides a way to generate more efficient batch scripts for temporal data processing. The strategy is to make the temporal domain the primary axis of parallel decomposition in an MPI job. That is, groups of nodes in a cluster simultaneously process different […]

Recent Advances in the Molecular Visualization and Processing with VTK and ParaView
September 20, 2018
The molecule framework in VTK and ParaView has recently been improved. In this blog we quickly introduce the new features. Note that the features presented below are available in ParaView 5.6 and VTK master branch (thus in next release VTK 8.2). Conversion Between vtkMolecule and vtkPointSet Two new filters enable converting vtkMolecule into vtkPolyData (mesh […]

ITK 5.0 Beta 1: Pythonic Interface
September 11, 2018
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 […]

Two techniques that are used by simulations are geometric refinement (also known as hierarchical refinement, or h-refinement) and polynomial refinement (also known as p-refinement). Traditional simulations often apply geometric refinement, which splits cells with low accuracy to resolve finer spatial features. More recent finite element simulations may also apply polynomial refinement. This technique enhances existing […]

Tomviz 1.4 Released: Microscopy and Microanalysis
August 19, 2018
We are pleased to announce the release of Tomviz 1.4 (GitHub release page). This release rounds out many of the big changes we made to our pipeline, state file, and related functionality in the 1.3 release. The state file, which is now saved as JSON, reflects the hierarchy shown in the application more directly, and […]

ITK 4.13.1 has been released!
August 13, 2018
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 […]

CMake 3.12.1 available for download
August 9, 2018
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.12.1 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ Thanks for your support! Changes in 3.12.1 since 3.12.0: Brad King (8): CSharp: Set CMAKE_CSharp_COMPILER_LOADED variable when language is enabled UseSWIG: Use CSharp language only if it is enabled Help: Add explicit […]

CMake 3.12.0 available for download
July 17, 2018
I am happy to announce that CMake 3.12.0 is now available for download at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.12 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.12/release/3.12.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.12 are: The “target_link_libraries()” command now supports Object Libraries. Linking to an object library uses its object […]

CMake 3.12.0-rc3 is ready for testing
July 9, 2018
I am proud to announce the third CMake 3.12 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ The first two 3.12.0 release candidates included a change to allow the target_link_libraries command to modify targets created outside the current directory. This has been reverted in rc3 due to problems with visibility of the linked targets. See issue17943. Documentation is available at: […]

CMake 3.12.0-rc2 is ready for testing
June 29, 2018
I am proud to announce the second CMake 3.12 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.12 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.12/release/3.12.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.12 are: The “target_link_libraries()” command now supports Object Libraries. Linking to an object library uses its object files in direct […]

Xoran Technologies and Kitware Collaborate on Image-guided Platform for Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
June 22, 2018
Introduction Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a standard of care for Parkinson’s patients and is a more effective treatment than other nonsurgical ones for Parkinson’s disease in its advanced stages. Current available stereotactic methodologies used for DBS have shown some deficiencies that make many patients become intolerant to the treatment. Xoran Technologies is building […]

This blog article presents an overview of the work presented recently in our ISBI 2018 conference paper entitled “Vectorized Persistent Homology Representations for Characterizing Glandular Architecture for Cancer Diagnosis in Histology Images”. This work was done through a ongoing collaboration between the researchers of Kitware and Emory University and is funded through an NIH ITCR […]

CMake 3.12.0-rc1 is ready for testing
June 14, 2018
I am proud to announce the first CMake 3.12 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.12 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.12/release/3.12.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.12 are: The “target_link_libraries()” command now supports Object Libraries. Linking to an object library uses its object files in direct […]

Integrating Jupyter with Girder
June 6, 2018
Introduction Girder is a free and open source web-based data management platform developed by Kitware as part of the Resonant data and analytics ecosystem. One of Girder’s core capabilities is data organization and dissemination. It provides a filesystem-like structure allowing files to be stored in a hierarchy. For a more detailed introduction checkout the docs. […]

CMake 3.11.2 available for download
May 17, 2018
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.11.2 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ Calling “add_library()” to create an alias of an imported target that is not globally visible now causes an error again as it did prior to 3.11.0. This diagnostic was accidentally dropped from […]
