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 […]

We are pleased to announce the release of Tomviz 1.3 (GitHub release page). This release features some big changes to our pipeline, state file, and related functionality. The pipeline now explicitly shows the input and output data, with the visualization modules attached to the data that is being visualized. These changes have been carried through […]

Open Chemistry, GSoC, and Avogadro
April 30, 2018
The Open Chemistry project was accepted for a third year as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code (as announced here)! We are acting an an umbrella organization, and extended the number of open source chemistry projects taking part a little more this year. We had mentors from the following organizations with ideas put […]

Courses in Image Analysis that use ITK
April 24, 2018
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: Modern C++
April 17, 2018
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 […]

ParaView 5.5.0 Release Notes
April 9, 2018
ParaView 5.5.0 is now available for download. The full list of issues addressed by this release is available here. Major changes made since ParaView 5.4.1 include the following: Rendering Enhancements More updates to OSPRay ray traced rendering ParaView’s Ray Traced Rendering capacity continues to evolve. In this release we’ve updated to a new version of […]
