Introducing the Interactive Medical Simulation Toolkit: Part I
Medical simulators are complex yet powerful tools that help residents train for (or rehearse) complex surgical procedures and learn basic skills that are common to … Read More
3D Slicer 4.10 gets Released with Improved Rendering Performances and New Virtual Reality Support
3D Slicer is a free, open source, extensible application for visualization and image analysis. It is widely used in the field of medical computing, with … Read More
Bringing Virtual Reality to 3D Slicer
3D Slicer now enables you to visualize and explore 3D medical data in a fully immersive and more intuitively way, thanks to the addition of … Read More
Xoran Technologies and Kitware Collaborate on Image-guided Platform for Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
Introduction Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a standard of care for Parkinson’s patients and is a more effective treatment than other nonsurgical ones for … Read More
Characterizing Glandular Architecture for Cancer Diagnosis in Histopathology Images Using Vectorized Persistent Homology Representations
This blog article presents an overview of the work presented recently in our ISBI 2018 conference paper entitled “Vectorized Persistent Homology Representations for Characterizing Glandular … Read More
A free hands-on course on open source software tools for biomedical image analysis and visualization
We held a 2-day course at Kitware’s Carrboro branch office in North Carolina focused on open source software tools for biomedical image analysis and visualization. … Read More
Introducing Osteotomy Planner: A 3D Slicer extension module to simulate bone cutting, remodeling and repositioning
This blog describes the Osteotomy Planner extension module that was developed for osteotomy simulation. This module was presented at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference recently … Read More
Advancing Optics in Medicine: NIRFAST-Slicer 2.0 and NIRFAST Workshop
Introduction This post features updates related to our joint efforts with the Optics in Medicine Lab at Dartmouth University, detailed in a previous blog post, … Read More
Courses in Medical Image Analysis that use ITK
Not only is the NLM Insight Toolkit (ITK) a foundation for the practice of image analysis in industry and academia, but ITK has been studied and … Read More
Kitware customer highlight: Radiopharmaceutical Imaging and Dosimetry, LLC (RAPID)
Introduction Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is a new and underutilized cancer therapy modality that has shown tremendous potential and is the subject of intense recent interest. … Read More