Diffusion MRI is a remarkable neuroimaging modality, simultaneously capturing brain structure at large scales and small. By sensitizing MRI to the diffusion of water molecules, brain tissue structures can be characterized in a directionally-dependent manner at sub-voxel scales. With microstructure models, diffusion MRI allows us to describe the distribution of neuron arrangements within the imaging voxels. […]

VTK.js v30 Release
May 21, 2024
We are pleased to announce the v30 release of VTK.js! VTK.js provides interactive visualizations running in your web browser for 2D, 3D, and higher-dimensional scientific data, including point clouds acquired as LiDAR data, surface models that represent molecular structures, and AR/VR environments that incorporate volume renderings of medical images. It is freely available as open-source […]

Introducing KWCoco
May 17, 2024
KWCoco is Kitware’s COCO format and Python module that builds on the popular MS-COCO format introduced in the 2014 paper Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context and is supported by the pycocotools Python module. The MS-COCO format was designed to manage the large-scale (>200K) single-image MS-COCO dataset with bounding box, polygon, pixel-mask, and keypoint annotations […]

Digital Pathology & AI Congress
May 7, 2024
May 7-8, 2024 at the San Diego Marriott in La Jolla, California The Digital Pathology & AI Congress brings together researchers and engineers to delve into the cutting-edge advancements and real-world applications of digital pathology. Kitware will be there to share with our colleagues how artificial intelligence and machine learning are revolutionizing clinical research, while […]

Enhancing Software Quality in 3D Slicer: Introducing the SlicerPythonTestRunner Extension
May 6, 2024
Introducing the SlicerPythonTestRunner extension for enhanced development experience.

Themys: A ParaView Branded Application
May 2, 2024
This is a guest blog from Eloïse Billa, Jacques-Bernard Lekien, Guillaume Peillex and Maxime Stauffert from CEA, DAM, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. In this blog post, the authors describe the advantages of being based on the ParaView framework for their domain specific application. Openness, collaboration and flexibility, in addition with a […]

ITK 5.4 Release Candidate 4: ALL THE DICOMs
April 24, 2024
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.4 Release Candidate 4 is available for testing! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. 🔦 Highlights The Insight Toolkit (ITK) has further enhanced its DICOM capabilities in the latest release, building on over 25 years of extensive clinical […]

Catalyst 2.0.0 Release
March 26, 2024
Catalyst 2.0.0 has been released! This is the first release of the Catalyst API as a standalone project. Catalyst is an API developed for simulations to communicate in situ with analysis and visualization tools. Release Features New Conduit Version Update to conduit 0.8.7 internally. This brings in a few more APIs: conduit_datatype_sizeof_index_t conduit_node_move conduit_node_reset conduit_node_swap […]

ParaView 5.12 Brings Exciting New Features
March 6, 2024
The ParaView development team is happy to announce the release of ParaView 5.12.0, the latest version of the industry leading open source scientific visualization and analysis software.

ParaView 5.12.0 Release Notes
March 4, 2024
Major changes made since ParaView 5.11.2 are listed in this document. The full list of issues addressed by this release is available here. New features Save/Load Data Locally/Remotely ParaView can now save files to and load files from either the client file system or the server file system. The following operations support this capability: Translations […]

A VolView web application for implant planification
February 29, 2024
A Volview based application to load and visualize DICOM files for dental implant planification within the browser without server side processing nor rendering

Lidar point cloud on the web with trame
February 27, 2024
When LidarView meets trame...

Continuous Testing Drives Innovation with Drake Robotics Software
February 21, 2024
Testing Drake Since 2014 Kitware has been working since 2014 to develop and maintain a cloud-based continuous integration (CI) system for Drake, an open-source robotics toolbox started by the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT CSAIL with core development now led by Toyota Research Institute. Modern software development involves teams of developers working together on large […]

Overview Data scientists frequently deal with extensive data structures that span multiple dimensions. These structures, termed n-dimensional (N-D) arrays, emerge from sophisticated, domain-specific algorithms. Kitware is working on a new framework, Pan3D, that leverages open source tools Trame and PyVista, aimed at simplifying a data scientist’s workflow when analyzing such data. This article delves into […]

ITK 5.4 Release Candidate 2 available for download
January 22, 2024
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.4 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. Highlights ITK 5.4 marks a significant feature update aimed at bolstering the project’s long-term sustainability. Specifically, this release harnesses the power of Web3 technology […]

Happy Birthday VTK: 30 Years of Innovation
January 15, 2024
According to git history, January marks the 30th anniversary of the first commit into the VTK’s source code repository. For those of us who have been involved from the early days this is truly mind boggling. We often thought that VTK might last a few years; and in our wildest dreams, maybe ten years. But […]

Kitware Announces 2024 Promotions As the Company Prepares to Take on New Challenges in the Coming Year
January 9, 2024
Kitware, a trusted leader in software R&D and advanced AI, is pleased to announce its 2024 promotions. Kitware continues to deliver innovative software that advances science and helps solve the world’s challenges through important projects and collaborations.

Pulse 4.2 Release
January 8, 2024
On behalf of the Pulse Physiology Community, we are pleased to announce that version 4.2 is now available from our repository. You can also get the latest version of Pulse for Unity from our asset on the Unity Store. We also provide an Unreal engine plugin with this latest version. The Pulse Explorer has also […]
