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Dr. Hoogs Presents Computer Vision Papers at IEEE Workshop Dr. Anthony Hoogs, Kitware's Senior Director of Computer Vision, presented three papers at the 2014 IEEE Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop. The workshop was held in Washington, DC, from October 14 to October 16, 2014. For "Multi-Target Tracking in Video with Adaptive Integration of […]

This is it. My last blog on streaming, at least for a while. Looking back, I have been writing about the VTK pipeline and how it can be leveraged to do cool things since September. This will be a cool topic to wrap this series up with. In the last blog, I demonstrated how to […]

Introduction This is the first in a series of articles that describe how Sphinx has been extended to create a powerful example documentation system, the ITK Sphinx Examples. For previous posts, see Part I: Credits via GitStats Part II: WebGL Visualizations Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, and it […]

Want to learn medical image analysis? Check out material from the following recent undergraduate and graduate courses where the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the simplified interface to ITK, SimpleITK, were applied. Methods in Medical Image Analysis, University of Iowa This semester long course taught by Hans Johnson is an excellent introduction to medical image analysis and ITK. The course […]

We are taking a quick break from the series of blogs on streaming. Instead, in preparation for a discussion on block-based streaming, I will discuss how you can write multi-block unstructured grid readers and writers in Python using the h5py library. Let’s get right down business. Here is the writer code. import vtk import h5py […]

SimpleITK 0.8.1 is available! Get it now! SimpleITK is a simplified layer built on top of ITK, intended to facilitate its use in rapid prototyping, education and interpreted languages. This patch release updates the ITK version to the newly released 4.7.0. Additionally, this patch contains improved support for CMake 3.0, fixes for compilation issues, the […]

This year, many exciting things happened at Kitware! Here are a few of our most notable releases, announcements, and events. We are looking forward to another great year filled with ground-breaking collaborations and advancements in open-source software! Software Releases CMake 3.1.0 CMake is the cross-platform, open-source build system. It is a family of tools designed […]

  On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.7.0 has been released! Get it now!   The 4.7 release is a major milestone that marks the hard work of many outstanding community members. Congratulations and well done to the 29 contributors to this release. We would especially like […]

This article is part of a series on Tangelo, a Python-supercharged web application framework. The first article, and index, can be found here. It’s a good time to be developing applications for the web. There are many web application frameworks out there, which means lots of choices, which means it’s more likely that the thing you […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.7.0 release candidate 2 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please test the release candidate in the coming days for an imminent release.   To obtain the source code,    git clone http://itk.org/ITK.git  cd ITK  git checkout -q –detach […]

This article is the first in a series on Tangelo, a Python-supercharged web application framework. Other articles in this series: Part 2: The Beauty of Simplicity Over the past two years, we have spent much of our time developing Tangelo [1] in the pursuit of rich web applications for solving problems both old and new. We recently passed 2000 commits […]

I am proud to announce the CMake 3.1 third release candidate. Sources and binaries are available at:   http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.1/?C=M;O=D Documentation is available at:   http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1 Release notes appear below and are also published at   http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/release/3.1.0.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.1 are: * Windows Phone and Windows Store support has been added to […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.7.0 release candidate 1 has been tagged and is available for testing!   To obtain the source code,    git clone http://itk.org/ITK.git  cd ITK  git checkout -q –detach v4.7rc01   For more details, please see the Git documentation.   Please test […]

In my last blog, I talked about spatial streaming in VTK. The example I covered demonstrated how a pipeline consisting of a structured data source and a contour filter can be streamed in smaller chunks to create a collection of polydata objects, which can then be rendered. The downside of this approach is that the […]

In my last 2 blogs (1, 2), I covered temporal streaming in VTK. Let’s check out how these ideas can be applied to spatial streaming. By spatial streaming, I mean processing a larger dataset in multiple pipeline executions wherein each execution processes a spatial subset of the data. There are 3 ways of spatial streaming […]

I recently attended the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, where I was invited to give a refresher course on modern scientific computing with Python. The hour-long course covered the following topics: Creating a reproducible computational environment with Docker, Interactive analysis and literate programming with the IPython Notebook, A brief survey of the […]

In my last blog, I introduced temporal streaming in VTK. For this, I used a simple unsteady flow-field example and at the end of the blog, I challenged the readers to developing a simple particle advection code built on temporal streaming concepts. Here is my implementation of the particle integrator. from source import * from […]

Modeling and simulation are critical components of scientific simulation, which is leveraged by fields as diverse as manufacturing, astrophysics, and climate science. Kitware has been developing the Computational Model Builder (CMB) to address some of the challenges in modeling and simulation, and will be presenting CMB at SC14 next week in New Orleans. To kick […]