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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 […]

Over the last decade, improvements in computer hardware and software have significantly changed the capabilities of simulation technology. New computer power has resulted in the emergence of simulations that are more realistic (treating three-dimensional (3D) geometries instead of two-dimensional (2D) ones), more complex (taking multiphysics and multiscale modeling into account), and more meaningful (calculating the […]

Kitware Turns 18 On March 5, 2016, Kitware turned 18. Throughout its offices in New York, North Carolina, New Mexico, and France, team members took the opportunity to show their Kitware spirit and enjoy some green-and-blue treats. Five colleagues—Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Lisa Avila, Charles Law, and Bill Hoffman—formed Kitware in 1998 around the Visualization […]

Last week, Ubuntu Linux 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) was released. This long-term support distribution includes packages for the recently released ITK 4.9.0. This post describes how to install ITK packages in Ubuntu and other excellent Linux distributions. Arch The Arch ITK package is maintained by Christopher R. Mullins. To install ITK on Arch Linux: sudo pacman […]

Kitware recently promoted three team members for their dedication to the creation and support of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology. Keith Fieldhouse, Assistant Director of Computer Vision As an assistant director, Keith will focus on vision software architectures. In particular, he will lead the development of the open-source Kitware Image and Video Exploitation and Retrieval […]

Introduction VTK has a collection of parametric surfaces that are both orientable (e.g. Torus) and non-orientable (e.g. Möbius Strip). If you launch ParaView and look in Sources you will see that these surfaces are not there. This article will show you how to bring these surfaces into ParaView and how to access these surfaces from […]