We are excited to announce that our paper "Geometric Metamorphosis" was accepted for MICCAI 2011 (one of only 34 papers accepted for oral presentation out of 819 submitted) and will be presented on Wednesday, September 21st in Toronto. 

Our paper proposes geometric metamorphosis formulation as an alternative to standard image registration methods, which do not account for changes in image appearance. The work is motivated by clinical challenges in predicting long-term effects of traumatic brain injuries based on time-series images. This work is a joint effort between UNC, UCLA, and Kitware. You can find the list of authors for this paper, as well as a complete description of our involvement in this conference, on our MICCAI event page.  

Will you be at MICCAI? If so, we'd love to meet with you. Just send us an email (kitware@kitware.com) and we'll arrange it.  

Showing our strong commitment to open source, we have released our long-standing VolView product under a BSD license. VolView is an intuitive, interactive system for volume visualization built on top of VTK and ITK. The 3.4 release contains several new features, such as paintbrush widgets to allow users to perform manual data segmentation in 2D and 3D, and segmentation filters that allow users to generate and interact with label map overlays to  create, merge, or crop segmentations using ITK and VTK filters.  

See our News site for complete details on the VolView 3.4 release. Visit the VolView download page to find binaries for Windows, Linux, and Mac as well as source code and documentation. Want to learn more about Kitware's consulting services in the area of medical imaging?  Just send us an email (kitware@kitware.com) and we'll put you in touch with one of our experts. 

Our annual summer picnic was a smashing success with beautiful weather, plenty of great food, and of course all the fun toys. With over 175 people in attendance this year (up from about 130 last year), we needed to increase the entertainment options. In addition to the rock wall, bounce house and giant inflatable slides, we added a 40' inflatable obstacle course.  Although this definitely brought out our competitive side as we raced in teams over, under, around, and through various obstacles, it was so much fun that we are sure to be looking for a bigger, meaner, more challenging course for next year's picnic.  Check out this blog post for more pictures. 

Kitware is holding a three-day course covering VTK, ITK, and ParaView in Lyon, France from September 12th through the 14th. The course will be taught in English by Julien Jomier, and will cover the basic architecture and function of each tool.

Topics to be covered include understanding the VTK pipeline; viewing 2D images, meshes, and stacks of images; discovery and loading of data into ParaView; parallel processing using ParaView; understanding how to create applications using CMake and ITK; and how to create and run registration and segmentation filters.

The registration deadline for this course is Friday, September 2nd. Early registration is encouraged as rates change after August 29th. Please email formations@kitware.fr  for more information or to register. 

Kitware is one of the fastest growing software companies in the country. We've won awards for our research, awards for our open source products, and awards for our great workplace.  This success is fueled by our people - smart, energetic team players who love to take on tough challenges.  Do you know someone with an advanced degree and/or experience in computer vision, scientific computing, medical imaging, informatics, software architecture or a related field? Please let them know about our open positions, and have them send their resume to jobs@kitware.com.