This post is the second part of our trip report on the SciPy 2014 conference. It covers the conference’s presentations and posters.  For an introduction and overview of tutorials, please see our previous blog post. Overview This year’s conference expanded the number of talks by approximately 50%. While the talks spanned two days instead of […]

Introduction and Background Luis Ibáñez, Matt McCormick, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, and Aashish Chaudhary attended the Scientific Computing with Python (SciPy) 2014 conference in Austin, Texas, between July 6th – July 12th. This year’s conference was again the largest ever, with registration reaching its cap at over 450 attendants, a 50% increase over last year. The main […]

Recent Releases

April 17, 2014

VTK 6.1.0 Released Kitware and the entire VTK team are happy to announce the release of VTK 6.1.0. The release fixes bugs and adds features on top of the more modular code structure of version 6.0. The source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages can be downloaded from VTK’s website. This release introduces the vtkDax […]

Recently, four journal articles co-authored by members of Kitware were contributed to Neuroinformatics with the Insight Toolkit, a research topic for Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. According to the journal’s website, “The primary goal of this proposal is to highlight and detail ITKv4’s segmentation and registration methodology and its application to a variety of neuroinformatics problems. By […]

ITK 4.5.1 has been released!

February 14, 2014

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.5.1!   Click here to download   This is a patch release that addresses critical issues. The 4.5.1 release fixes helps SimpleITK build with MacOSX Clang 5.0, Visual Studio builds of MINCIO and SCIFIO, Release builds with GCC 4.8, […]

Bender Moves the Visible Man Bender, Kitware’s new open-source toolkit for repositioning voxelized anatomical models, was introduced in late April. Bender is used to reposition 3D labelmap models for use in computing voxel-level Specific Absorption Rates (SAR), the rates at which energy is absorbed by the body when it is exposed to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields […]

The final stop of our ITK Spring workshop series is University of Iowa on May 30th. Dr. Hans Johnson was our local host.  About 40 people in total joined us. They were mostly researchers and graduate students from Biomedical Engineering, Psychiatry, Radiology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering departments of the University . It is worth mentioning that the […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

April 2013: Kitware News

April 15, 2013

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 […]

The Kitware mobile development team has released KiwiViewer 2.0 for iOS, available as a free download in the App Store.  This release is a major upgrade over the previous one – it includes a new user interface, new methods of data access like Dropbox and Midas, ParaView integration, and lots of enhancements to the visualization […]

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 […]

On June 21st Kitware presented at tutorial at CVPR 2012.  The topic of the tutorial was Python for MATLAB Users: Promoting Open Source Computer Vision Research This presentation was a collaboration between Kitware and Google Research.  Our goal was to teach MATLAB users how to migrate to an equivalent open source environment built around Python.  More […]

Enhancements for 3D Slicer Funded by NIH Kitware received grant funding from the U.S. National Center of Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to further develop 3D Slicer. Slicer is currently funded by grants associated with the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) and the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC), and […]

Introducing Visomics Kitware is pleased to announce Visomics, an exciting new open-source tool for the exploration of biological “omics” data with a focus on genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics. Visomics is an integrated, end-to-end bioinformatics tool that incorporates data ingestion, analysis and visualization tasks for a variety of data types and sizes. As a result, […]