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Kitware worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Automated Image Analysis Strategic Initiative (AIASI) to host a software integration and training workshop for Video and Image Analytics for the Marine Environment (VIAME). The workshop took place at Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington, from September 20 to 23, 2016. More than 10 […]

First Hackfest Upgrades Girder In August, Kitware held the first Girder hackfest to enhance the open-source, web-based platform for data management. Over 20 participants attended the all-day hackfest, during which they made a variety of improvements to Girder. For starters, participants continued to work on a major overhaul of the front-end build infrastructure. Sébastien Barré […]

The importance of coding style should not be underestimated, and we have seen a number of changes in our projects over the last few months. Until recently VTK and ParaView used a style for braces that I have only ever encountered in projects coming from our company, with minimal to no support in most editors. […]

The VTK development team is happy to announce that VTK 7.1 has entered release candidacy!You can find the source, data, and (soon) vtkpython binary packages here:http://www.vtk.org/download/#candidatePlease try this version of VTK and report any issues to the new gitlab bug tracker so that we can try to address them before VTK 7.1.0 final. When you do, be sure to mark your bug reports and merge requests with the […]

The first PyData Carolinas Conference was held from September 14-16, 2016 at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The event was very successful with over 350 attendees and every room packed in three parallel tracks, which reflects the technological energy for Python in data science in the Carolinas. Kitware participated with a number of […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit Community, we are happy to announce that ITK 4.10.1 is available for download. Release files can be downloaded from: http://itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and compiler support. Of the numerous issues addressed in this release, most notable is a fix to the ITK […]

New features added to Tomviz enhance support for the computation and viewing of segmentation and analysis algorithm results. Segmentation Algorithms Available Tomviz 0.9.1 offers some basic segmentation algorithms to apply to data. Each segmentation algorithm produces a “label map” which is a labeling of each voxel in the current dataset. The “Binary Threshold” data transform computes a label […]

Since we started using uservoice to collect requests for new features to add to ParaView, one of the top (if not the top) entry had been the request for a reload button. Simple enough request, but a clean solution had been a little challenging to come by since file readers in VTK (and ParaView) don’t uniformly support the ability to reload […]

(This is the first article in a two part series. It provides background and VTK implementation details. The next article describes how to use this technology with ParaView.) Introduction A common operation in visualization and scientific computing applications is determining data values at a particular location in a domain. For example, a dataset may be […]

ParaView 5.1.2 is now available for download. It is a patch release that fixes a few critical issues noticed in ParaView 5.1.0. This release include the following major fixes: Rendering translucent geometries: The depth peeling code was revamped for 5.1.0 which introduced two issues: first, it didn’t work as expected in client-server configurations when rendering remotely; second, […]

ParaView 5.1 ParaView 5.1 brought the process of ray tracing to the open-source application for data analysis and visualization. This process utilizes the OSPRay library from Intel. The latest release also brought the capability to render picture-in-picture visualizations to ParaView. On top of rendering capabilities, ParaView gained several filters with the release. A new collection […]

My name is Thomas “Hastings” Greer. A few weeks ago, I began an internship at Kitware’s office in Carrboro, North Carolina. So far, it has been an amazing experience. Even though it has only been a few weeks, I have already had a chance to make significant contributions to the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for scientific […]

ParaView 5.1.0 is now available for download. A complete list of issues addressed by this release is available on the bug tracer. Some of the major highlights of this release are as follows: OSPRay ParaView now comes with a built in ray traced rendering capability. Hit the Enable OSPRay checkbox at the bottom of the […]

Homebrew is a package manager for OS X, which has become very popular in recent years. The homebrew-core repository provides more than 3,500 packages. There are multiple other repositories, like homebrew-science, where you can find tools from the Kitware ecosystem such as the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), and Paraview. […]

Version 4.10.0 provides new and valuable capabilities for medical image analysis. On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) community, Kitware released ITK 4.10.0. ITK is a freely available, open-source toolkit that thousands of research projects and commercial products employ to analyze medical images. The 4.10.0 release enhanced the ability of ITK to […]

ITK Background The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) is a cross-platform, open-source framework that supports the development of image segmentation and registration applications with an extensive suite of software tools. This suite includes leading-edge algorithms for analyzing multidimensional data. ITK is mainly implemented in C++, and it uses the CMake build environment to manage […]

On behalf of the Insight Segmenation and Registration Toolkit community, we present the first release candidate for ITK 4.10. The release features a new remote module, TwoProjectionRegistration, which can simultaneously register two projection images to a three-dimensional image volume. TwoProjectionRegistration has applications in external beam radiotherapy among other areas of medical imaging. The module uses […]

CMake 3.5 Released The 3.5 release introduced a new platform file to increase the compatibility of CMake with the Cray Linux Environment (CLE). This file allows CMake to cross-compile code in the CLE to target compute nodes. The release also enabled CMake to build and install combined targets for embedded Apple platforms. Now, users can […]