3D Slicer and Virtual Insect Dissection
April 23, 2019
Insects are arguably the most successful terrestrial life form. With an evolutionary history stretching over 400 million years, the world’s oceans remain the sole domain without a significant insect presence. Numbering somewhere around 1.5 million species, their vast diversity remains largely unparalleled. Scientists have been studying the structure, or morphology, of insects for hundreds of […]
Tomviz 1.6 Released
April 16, 2019
We are pleased to announce the release of Tomviz 1.6 (GitHub release page). This release features a number of improvements to application startup time, and a splash screen to show that the application is starting up on the occasions where it doesn’t start as quickly as we would like. The reconstruction operators were also improved […]
ParaView comes packed with a wide range of tools directly out of the box which are more than enough for many applications. Nevertheless, sometimes you want to add some functionality to scratch a specific itch that no existing built-in tool does in the way that you want. Of course, there is always the option to […]
Splitting ITK image channels
April 10, 2019
It has never been so easy to develop ITK remote modules to share your research and algorithms with ITK. Several major improvements have been made to the ITK development process and have led to many new ITK python packages being published on PyPI. These improvements include, but are not limited to: migration of ITK on […]
New Python package for microCT images
April 5, 2019
The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is a valuable tool for obtaining insight into images through computational analysis methods. The toolkit is well-suited for x-ray computed tomography image analysis, which are often stored in the DICOM format for clinical scanners. ITK supports many other formats for data exchange: there is now preliminary support for Scanco microCT systems. […]
CMake 3.14.1 available for download
March 29, 2019
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.14.1 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ Thanks for your support! Changes in 3.14.1 since 3.14.0: Brad King (11): VS: Fix x64 host recognition by x86 cmake process find_program: Restore leading double slash on Windows network path Eclipse: Fix […]
Python package to find vessel or tube centerlines
March 27, 2019
ITKv5 can now wrap any user-developed module into a pip-installable package that has an intuitive, pythonic interface. A great example is the MinimalPathExtraction module that is featured in this post. To find centerline paths in 2D or 3D vessel or tube structures in any imaging modality, install the package with: This package provides the new […]
ITK 4.13.2 has been released
March 22, 2019
On behalf of the Insight Toolkit (ITK) Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.13.2! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform library for multidimensional image analysis. Release files can be downloaded from http://itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html To install or upgrade Python packages with pip: This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and […]
CMake 3.14.0 available for download
March 14, 2019
I am happy to announce that CMake 3.14.0 is now available for download at:https://cmake.org/download/ The first two 3.14.0 release candidates included the FindOcatave module. This has been removed in rc3, and rc4 pending further development. Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/release/3.14.html Some of the more significant changes in […]
CMake 3.14.0-rc4 is ready for testing
March 8, 2019
I am proud to announce the fourth CMake 3.14 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ The first two 3.14.0 release candidates included the FindOcatave module. This has been removed in rc3, and rc4 pending further development. Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/release/3.14.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.14 are: […]
CMake 3.14.0-rc3 is ready for testing
March 1, 2019
I am proud to announce the third CMake 3.14 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ The first two 3.14.0 release candidates included the FindOcatave module. This has been removed in rc3 pending further development. Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/release/3.14.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.14 are: Support for […]
CMake 3.14.0-rc2 is ready for testing
February 15, 2019
I am proud to announce the second CMake 3.14 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/release/3.14.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.14 are: Support for running CMake on Windows XP and Windows Vista has been dropped. The precompiled Windows binaries provided […]
CMake 3.14.0-rc1 is ready for testing
February 7, 2019
I am proud to announce the first CMake 3.14 release candidate. https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/release/3.14.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.14 are: Support for running CMake on Windows XP and Windows Vista has been dropped. The precompiled Windows binaries provided […]
ITK 5.0 Release Candidate 1: Meshes
February 5, 2019
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) Release Candidate 1! As the first release candidate, the major advancements for ITK 5 have matured, and the community is encouraged to adopt the release candidate in ITK-based applications. Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) To install the 5.0 Release Candidate 1 Python packages, run This […]
VTK 8.2.0
January 30, 2019
The VTK development team is pleased to introduce VTK 8.2.0. This release is a minor version update which is meant to make the wealth of improvements that were in the master/development branch available to VTK enabled applications before the big breaking changes coming with VTK 9.0’s new build system. The release continues our path to […]
Introducing The New PCL-Plugin For ParaView
January 29, 2019
The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a well known and versatile open-source C++ library for working with point cloud data, with functionality for keypoint extraction, alignment, segmentation and much more. We have previously developed an open source PCL plugin to bring a subset of this functionality into ParaView via support for conversion of some XYZ point clouds and the […]
3D Slicer 4.10.1 Improves Segmentation Effects and Adds Video Management Infrastructure
January 22, 2019
On behalf of the 3D Slicer development community, we are pleased to announce that version 4.10.1 is now available for download. This patch release introduces ~150 feature enhancements and bug fixes. It includes a new extension, as well as more than 10 new-and-improved core modules. To learn about the ~500 feature enhancements and bug fixes […]
ITK 5.0 Beta 3 Released
January 4, 2019
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) version 5 Beta 3 release! Download the source code: Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) Install the Python packages: python -m pip install --upgrade pip python -m pip install --upgrade --pre itk This release celebrates the community’s migration to GitHub. As a true open source project, […]