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The second stop of our ITK Spring workshop series is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cory Quammen from the Computer Science Department of UNC was our local host. We have about 45~50 attendees in total, who are mostly researchers and graduate students from the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, the Biostatistics Department and the […]

The three of us, Matt McCormick, Luis Ibanez and Xiaoxiao Liu, visited the Montreal Neurology Institue (MNI) of  McGill University in Montreal on May 21st and successfully held the ITK workshop and hackathon event with our local host Dr. Louis Collins and his lab from MNI. We had an extraordinary turnout of 70 people attending […]

The ParaView UserVoice page is a place where users of the application can request features, and we pay attention to these requests and try to implement highly desired features when possible. One of the top requests has been for the ability to use LaTeX markup in ParaView text fields to draw mathematical equations as annotations […]

Recently Fabian Lopez of DSS Inc. shared this comprehensive list of VistA-related webinars with the OSEHRA education group. If you’ve been meaning to get acquainted with the VistA electronic health record, this compilation will make it easy! All links here are reposted with permission – thanks Fabian! A Sieve is not only for the Kitchen: […]

Avogadro 1.x had quite a large number of input generators from very humble beginnings. These input generators were designed to be easy to write, and to give a simple path from a structure in Avogadro to something that could be used as an input file in one of many codes. Our basic approach was to […]

Last week, Zack Galbreath and Matt McCormick went to the University of Houston in Texas to deliver an ITK Workshop on May 15th and take part in a hackathon on May 16th.  The event was hosted by Dr. Badri Roysam, PI of the FARSIGHT Toolkit project.  The FARSIGHT Toolkit makes heavy use of ITK and VTK.  […]

Next Thursday, April 25th, Kitware will participate in the 3rd Annual Open Source Festival at the State University of New York at Albany. The event is hosted by the University’s Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and will run from 11 AM – 8 PM in the Assembly Hall at the SUNY Albany Campus […]

The  benefits of distributed version control systems, such as Git, often stem from complete, local storage of a repository’s history; however, such local storage is not without disadvantages. One problem is the addition of large files into a repository. Even if large files are removed from HEAD, their presence in the history increases storage requirements […]

These days, everyone’s got a mobile device (or several), so why not use them for data visualization? Last month, KiwiViewer 2.0 for iOS was released in the App Store as a free download. KiwiViewer 2.0 is a major upgrade over the previous version. It ships with a newly designed user interface and heaps of exciting […]

National Cancer Informatics Program Open Development Initiative Kitware is collaborating with SAIC-Frederick, Inc. (SAIC-F) to migrate a collection of National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored software projects to an open-source environment in Github. Kitware will play an advisory role in this project and provide NCI and SAIC-F personnel with knowledge, tools, and skills for successfully managing the […]

Kitware and the Insight Development team have released SimpleITK version 0.6.1. The binaries for this release are available for download from Sourceforge and the SimpleITK website (simpleitk.org). Notable improvements in this release include basic support for transformations, interpolator support in the Resample and other filters, over 250 ImageFilters wrapped, binary filter support for comparative operators, […]

We are pleased to announce the first beta release of the Open Chemistry suite of cross platform, open-source, BSD-licensed tools and libraries – Avogadro 2, MoleQueue and MongoChem. They are being released in beta, before all planned features are complete, to get feedback from the community following the open-source mantra of “release early, release often”. […]

Kitware and the Insight Development team are pleased to announce the release of SimpleITK 0.6.1! The binaries for this release are available for download from Sourceforge and the SimpleITK website. Notable improvements in this release include basic support for transformations; interpolator support in the Resample and other filters; over 250 ImageFilters wrapped; binary filter support […]

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 […]