VisWeek 2011For the tenth straight year, Kitware sponsored VisWeek, the premier forum for advances in scientific and information visualization. The team was very active at this conference, presenting papers, participating in panel discussions, and meeting with collaborators. Jeff Baumes presented the paper “Geospatial and Entity Driven Document Visualization for Non-Proliferation Analysis” as part of the […]

Kitware, on behalf of the ITK team, is pleased to announce the release of ITK 4.0.0 and the availability of the binaries, which are now available for download on the ITK download page. This release is the outcome of 18 months of refactoring efforts, generously sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) with […]

    Several members of the Kitware team attended RSNA from November 27-December 2. In addition to meeting with collaborators and exploring the exhibits, we were actively involved in demonstrating our newest work, teaching workshops and participating in exhibits.       On Monday, Kitware taught two courses, “Open Source Applications for Medical Imaging Research” […]

Kitware has been awarded $181,700 in sub-recipient funding on a grant from the U.S. National Center of Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding will be used to make enhancements to 3D Slicer, an open-source platform for medical image segmentation, registration, visualization, and analysis. 3D Slicer is funded by grants […]

Many traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases involve blunt force damage resulting from the brain hitting the skull due to rapid acceleration/deceleration, e.g., during car accidents. The damage exists as lesions with hemorrhagic and nonhemmorhagic components. In order to plan treatment for TBI, patients typically receive an MRI scan on initial presentation in the clinic, and […]

ITKv4 & Microscopy

August 3, 2010

As we mentioned briefly in our recent post, the upcoming version of ITKv4 will provide better support for Microscopy Applications. Here are some of the critical topics for which we will be improving ITKv4 in order to better serve application developers in the domain of Microscopy imaging. Very Large datasets (GigaBytes / TeraBytes) Temporal data […]