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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 […]

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 / […]