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On March 28th, the GabFest meeting took place at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kitware helped organize remote attendance at the meeting, which brought together researchers and engineers in medical imaging. Participation was international and included attendees from the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Colombia, and Spain. The meeting provided a forum to brainstorm and […]

ParaView 5.0.1 is now available for download. This is a patch release that addresses some critical issues reported in the 5.0.0 release. Since this is a patch release, users using ParaView in client-server configurations can continue to use a  5.0.0 server with a 5.0.1 client if necessary (but not vice versa), although using 5.0.1 server is highly […]

The Girder development team recently made version 1.5 available for download. The improved testing infrastructure featured in the release makes it easier to develop and test downstream external plug-ins. For the OAuth external plug-in, the release established LinkedIn as a provider. The release also added a plug-in for downloading files by their checksums. Beyond the new […]

Any ParaView user (and developer) that is writing Python scripts in ParaView for data processing i.e. for use in Programmable Source or Programmable Filter, will soon notice that there are two ways of importing the vtk package: # Option 1: import the 'vtk' package directly. import vtk # Option 2: Import the 'vtk' package within 'paraview' from paraview import vtk In […]

I am proud to announce that CMake 3.5.0 is now available for download at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/release/3.5.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.5 are: The precompiled Windows binary provided on “cmake.org” is now a “.msi” package instead of an […]

Some things just go together well.   Mom and apple pie.   Bread and butter.   Cheese and wine.   And ITK and VTK.   What is better than just ITK and VTK? ITK / VTK and Python! The recent release of VTK 7.0.0 and ITK 4.9.0 now makes it possible to connect ITK / […]

Webinar details redesigned rendering backend of open-source toolkit. To accompany the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) 7.0 release that occurred at the end of January, Kitware made a recording of its release webinar available to members of the visualization community. Kitware hosted the webinar live on February 3, 2016, to offer exclusive insights into the latest VTK […]

ITK employs extreme programming methodologies in latest development cycle. On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) community, Kitware announced the release of ITK 4.9.0. ITK is an open-source software library for processing medical images. The 4.9 release revealed new features, capabilities, and performance enhancements that provide innovations as well as core functionality […]

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) development team is happy to announce the seventh major release of VTK. For the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages, please visit VTK’s website. To learn about the VTK 7.0 Release Webinar, which includes a Q&A session and is scheduled for February 3rd at 2 pm EST, read our blog entry. […]

Some people have been experiencing some problems with the Python interpreter in VTK and ParaView, when initializing their own Python interpreter and using ParaView Python capability as well. A new CMake variable has been added to ParaView, VTK_PYTHON_FULL_THREADSAFE, which will turn on the GIL Ensure/Release on all VTK and ParaView Python calls. If you are […]

Earlier this month, we attended the 3D Slicer 2016 Winter Project Week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, MA. The project week is a semi-annual event where 3D Slicer users and developers gather to discuss and work collaboratively on open-science solutions for problems that occur […]

Projects will make image analysis solution more accessible to Python community. Kitware recently kicked off two National Library of Medicine (NLM) projects to increase synergy between Python and SimpleITK. The efforts will add support for Python in SimpleITK to improve performance and make the open-source, cross-platform system for image analysis easier to build, package, distribute, […]

ITK 4.9 Released The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) 4.9 release adds new remote modules, such as Cuberille for smooth generation of meshes from binary segmentation images. ITK 4.9 also enhances the edge-preserving smoothing abilities of the AnisotropicDiffusionLBR module. In addition, itk::Image::GetPixel performs better, as do operations on the itk::VariableLengthVector class. Plus, Python wrapping builds faster with a […]

A little over a year ago at Kitware, we released the Kitware Interactive Video Exploitation and Retrieval (KWIVER) toolkit [1]. The goal of our Computer Vision team in developing KWIVER is to create a complete end-to-end video exploitation toolkit. When fully realized, KWIVER will provide tools to ingest video, stabilize it, detect movers in it, […]

We are proud to unveil version 1.0 of the NIRFAST-Slicer application for optical imaging research. NIRFAST-Slicer brings together two powerful open-source toolkits used in the imaging research community: NIRFAST and 3D Slicer. NIRFAST ​is an interactive open-source software application package that is widely used in the near-infrared imaging research community. It provides functionalities for modeling and reconstructing near-infrared light transport in tissue including standard […]

Release candidate 2 is ready to try. Compared to rc1, this release candidate contains a handful of new deprecations, updates to some of VTK's third party libraries and miscellaneous improvements. You can find the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages here: http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#releasecandidate Please try this version of VTK, and report any issues to the mailing lists so that […]

ParaView 5.0 / VTK 7.0 changes the default rendering engine that is a totally new, rewritten implementation that uses newer OpenGL features for improved rendering performance on modern devices. That does mean, however, that older OpenGL implementations including old graphics cards/drivers builds will no longer work. On several Linux systems, including major super-computers, Mesa3D has been the […]

ParaView 5.0.0 is now available for download. This marks the beginning of the ParaView 5.0 series—a long way from the first release, 0.2.0, tagged in Dec 2001! Here are some of the major highlights. New Rendering Engine This release introduces a brand-new rendering backend that the team has been putting together for the past several […]