LidarView is Kitware’s versatile, highly-customizable tool for visualizing and analyzing streaming lidar data. It’s a cost-effective open source solution designed to meet your needs as well as the needs of your end users. There are many reasons why LidarView is becoming a valuable tool for sensor manufacturers. Key Features of LidarView LidarView offers advanced features […]

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You’ve written a great MONAI PyTorch machine learning model that solves an important problem and you want to make it widely available.  How do you deploy it?  In this blog, we share our experience using the multiple options for deploying a MONAI PyTorch machine learning model in 3D Slicer and discuss strengths and weaknesses of […]

Introduction Until recently, VTK.js has only used a basic lighting model. Reminiscent of Phong shading, it only supported diffuse, ambient, and specular components, with the diffuse being the only one supporting a texture. However, this has changed. Following in the footsteps of VTK C++, the WebGPU branch of VTK.js has been the first to implement […]

Introduction Object tracking is a fundamental computer vision problem that refers to a set of methods proposed to precisely track the motion trajectory of an object in a video or in sequenced frames. Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is a subclass of object tracking where the goal is to track nota single but multiple objects from […]

Introduction Volumetric Rendering in VTK and ParaView offers many possibilities to users wishing to visualize volumetric data. Specifically, medical and climate data can benefit from these rich visualizations. This article describes recent development in this domain to provide cinematic volumetric rendering in VTK and ParaView. Context Volumetric mappers in VTK use ray marching algorithms to […]

Specifications may not be the most glamorous aspect of software, but they are essential. Just now, your web browser used the HTTP protocol specification to fetch this blog post written following the HTML specification using letters specified by the Unicode standard. These specifications allow you to view this blog post using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, […]

A snippet of a STAC Collection, part of the STAC specification code

Context When deploying ParaView in an HPC environment, once all the technical requirements are met, everything is working perfectly and users start to try and use ParaView for actual data post-processing, one of the first questions that may come to mind is how many cores and nodes should be used by ParaView servers ? This […]

Context As part of the SAGE2 project funded by the European Union, Kitware worked on porting VTK to a new generation of data storage system. SAGE2 is a consortium of European Experts in data storage, data management and supercomputing technologies, lead by Seagate.The Precursor SAGE project built a prototype storage system in 2017 that is […]

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We turn your ideas into products. We pride ourselves on our ability to perform critical research and actively apply it to your project. Kitware can create prototypes that seamlessly integrate with pre-existing user workflows or help your team establish new workflows. We can also help attract funding by rapidly adapting prototypes based on input from […]

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Kitware has just added new features to the Paraview Python editor. Our aim was to provide a better user experience when it comes to editing Python files within Paraview. First of all, the editor is now accessible directly in the main window through Tools > Python Script Editor. We added a multiple tab feature to […]

Introduction iMSTK 3.0 introduced task graphs to allow flexibility in the configuration of the computational pipeline as well as to add scene-level task parallelization. Task graphs allow users to create computational blocks as nodes and to specify edges that determine the order of execution. Expressing computation using the task graph makes it easier to take […]

The Shape Analysis in Dental Imaging Research Using SlicerSALT workshop was a scheduled presentation for the centennial IADR 2020 conference. Though the conference was canceled due to COVID-19, Kitware wanted the dental research community to have access to the learning materials. That’s why we are pleased to provide a virtual workshop instead! The workshop is […]

CDash can now attach checks and statuses to your commits on GitHub!

ParaView comes packed with a wide range of tools directly out of the box which are more than enough for many applications. Nevertheless, sometimes you want to add some functionality to scratch a specific itch that no existing built-in tool does in the way that you want. Of course, there is always the option to […]

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The VTK maintenance team is happy to announce that VTK 8.2 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source, data and documentation tarballs here: http://www.vtk.org/download/#candidate Take a look at the VTK wiki for a complete list of API changes in v8.2.0 over the previous version. Please try this version of VTK, and […]

The International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2018 was held April 4-7 in Washington, DC.  In 2017, ISBI hosted 15 papers on ultrasound research.  At this year’s ISBI, ultrasound research was featured in a tutorial, 7 invited presentations, and 25 poster and podium presentations!  Ultrasound is infiltrating nearly every aspect of patient care: providing new diagnostic tests, […]