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There are many reasons why Open Science is a good thing. For some it’s a moral argument that stresses sharing the results of (usually publicly funded) scientific research with society, preventing fraud through transparency, and benefiting teaching through the use of open materials. Others see the growing complexity and challenges of science as demanding collaboration; so […]

Kitware, in collaboration with The  Ohio State University, recently completed a Phase I small business grant awarded by the Department of Energy entitled “Cloud Computing and Visualization Tools for KBase”. This grant involved extending our tool-sets and exploring activities in the areas of bioinformatics and researcher support. As part of a gap analysis and to broaden our […]

Last week we visited the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI laboratory) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  LOCI is a leader in open source image analysis tools for microscopy and the life sciences.  In the past, there has been limited cross-pollination between the ITK and ImageJ communities, possibly because a difference in primary programming […]

Kitware Europe Celebrates 2nd AnniversaryNovember 8th marked the second anniversary of Kitware Europe in Lyon, France. Since its inception, the Lyon office has been actively providing professional training courses throughout Europe. They’ve also made important collaborations with organizations such as the French Nuclear Agency (CEA) to develop new tools for VTK and ParaView, and with […]

The ParaView team  has released version 3.98, the final major release in the 3 series. These notes give a summary of the major changes in this release, which address more than 300 issues. Exporting to PS/PDF: One of the most requested features on ParaView User Voice[1] was for support for vector graphics. It is now […]

The Linux Foundation released its annual report on “Who Writes Linux” in April of this year. It reveals interesting facts about how such a large-scale open-source community operates. Some of the Linux Kernel facts that jump out of the report include: Releases are done every 80 days on average. Every release includes an average of […]

One of the goals of the Open Chemistry project [1,2] at Kitware is to provide a simple, easy-to-use interface for submitting chemical simulations to be executed on high-performance computing (HPC) resources. To this end, we have developed MoleQueue — a system-tray resident server application that uses standard inter-process communication channels to interact with programs that […]

Previous Infrastructure In the context of multi-threading, image processing is often considered an “embarrassing parallel” problem.  That is, since the operations to create one output pixel are often independent from other output pixels, data-parallelism can be achieved when output pixels are partitioned into sub-domains to be processed in each thread. Infrastructure to easily write multi-threaded […]

With funding from the NIH via the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC) and the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), Kitware has been collaborating on the refactoring and enhancement of 3D Slicer.  Slicer is a tool for visualizing and quantifying medical images and related biomedical data.  It provides advanced visualization, segmentation (e.g., boundary delineation), and […]

CMake: Building with all your cores As a distance runner, it is important to run using a fully engaged core. This allows for the most efficient means of moving towards my running goals. Software developers are equally motivated to use as much of their “cores” as possible to build software. OK, I admit this is […]

Kitware and the ParaView team are happy to announce the release of ParaView 3.98.0, the final major release in the 3 series. This release addresses more than 300 issues, and features include modularization, improved co-processing support through Catalyst, and new data formats available for export. VTK was restructured to use a modularized approach for building […]

Midas 3.2.8In September, the Midas team released version 3.2.8. This release includes improved LDAP support, multi-factor authentication, and improved logging for auditing. In addition, there is now a plugin for algorithm dashboards, Apache Solr can be used as a search index, metadata can be extracted from DICOM data, and there is support for thumbnailing ITK […]

The Center for Advanced Modeling and Simulation (CAMS) at the Idaho National Laboratory offers an advanced visualization facility that includes a four-sided CAVE-style immersive display system, a large 3×3 tiled display, and low-cost immersive systems dubbed the IQ-station [5] (also see Figure 1). Given these immersive environments, the CAMS team has a vested interest in […]

Kitware Presents Python Tutorial at CVPR Over the summer at the CVPR conference, Kitware collaborated with Google Research to present the “Python for MATLAB Users” tutorial. The tutorial was taught by Matt Leotta, Eran Swears, and Patrick Reynolds from Kitware, and Yong Zhao and Varun Ganapathi from Google Research. The course provided a hands-on introduction […]

The ITK team is pleased to announce the ITK 4.2.1 release, which addresses some critical build and performance issues. This release contains key patches to address build errors on new compilers, important performance patches, and solutions to several WrapITK build issues. In this release, important performance gains were the result of efforts by community members […]

On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben, Eike, Eric and the rest of the CMake team from all around the world, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.9 is now available for download at:   http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D It is also available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site: […]

On the Point Clould Library (PCL) site, they recently announced the release of the source code of the PCL plugin for ParaView. The Point Clould Library is an open-source project for 2D and 3D image and point cloud processing. With the PCL plugin, developed by Kitware, ParaView users can access the PCL algorithms from within […]

At the Direction des Applications Militaires Île-de-France (DIF) of the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), France, an application-specific visualization tool has been developed to post-process the solutions to the numerical simulations calculated at CEA/DIF. On the visualisation side, this tool uses VTK and ParaView servers. Goals of the collaboration focused on adding new annotation capabilities […]