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December 2013

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Andinet Enquobahrie Speaks at IDEAS Symposium

Kitware Attends IEEE International Conference

Kitwareans Experiment With 3D Printer

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At Kitware, we are always working to support Open Science. In December, our open-source data management system, Midas, helped to fuel the launch of Give a Scan's new website. Do you want to work with us on open-source projects that make a difference in the world? Check out our numerous open positions listed on our career site. Whether you are fresh-out-of-school or an experienced project lead, Kitware has a career opportunity for you!

 

Also in the last month, Avogadro 2 0.7.1 and MoleQueue 0.7.0 were released, and we had team members attend RSNA 2013, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, and IDEAS: Virtual Surgery. Be sure to check our calendar so you can catch us at upcoming events, such as SPIE Medical Imaging 2014!

 

-The Kitware Communications Team

storyAKitware Technology Featured in Give a Scan  
Kitware's Midas is Used by the Give a Scan Program to Enhance Accessibility of Data

The Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) launched a new and improved website for the Give a Scan program on December 3, 2013. The site is powered by Midas, Kitware's open-source data management system, and is supported by Siemens.

 

The Give a Scan program is the first CT donation program that allows people to donate CT scans and metadata directly to an open data archive for lung cancer research. The new website is a portal that provides researchers access to patient-provided scans and supplementary information for use in lung cancer investigations. Based on the most current version of Midas, which has improved metadata capabilities, the new website makes images and data more accessible to researchers in order to accelerate the pace of research.

 

The motivation behind the Give a Scan initiative is to encourage researchers to become more involved in the fight against lung cancer by advancing developments in early detection, diagnosis, and treatment. Both patients and researchers can contribute to Give a Scan's database.

storyCKitware a Success at Supercomputing 2013

Kitware Demonstrates Software Solutions at SC13 Conference  

 

Kitwareans attended Supercomputing 2013 in November to demonstrate our high performance scientific computing software solutions. One project highlighted at the conference was CMB-Hydro, which is part of the open-source Computational Model Builder (CMB) project. CMB-Hydro centers on building hydrological simulations, and is developed jointly by Kitware and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). In this example image from a video demonstrating the capabilities CMB-Hydro, a high resolution digital elevation model of the Chesapeake Bay area is converted into a polygonal dataset for input into a simulation process in order to study significant regional issues such as the level of flooding that would be expected under certain hurricane conditions.

 

If you weren't able to stop by the Kitware booth this year, be sure to visit us next year in New Orleans, where our exhibit will be even bigger and better!

storyD4aAndinet Enquobahrie Speaks at IDEAS Symposium

Presentation on Advancements in Open Source Software and Virtual Surgery            

 

Andinet Enquobahrie gave a talk on the role of open source software in surgical simulation at the Innovation, Design, and Emerging Alliances in Surgery (IDEAS): Virtual Surgery Symposium held in Boston, MA, at the Beth Israel Medical Center.  

 

Andinet presented on open-source tools, as well as current virtual surgery projects. He also discussed how technological advancements in medical imaging, image registration algorithms, visualization technologies, and tracking systems are helping to increase the adoption of virtual surgery systems. As he noted in his talk, software can be utilized for a variety of purposes in image-guided intervention and medical robotics, and open-source software is now playing a significant role in accelerating the pace of research and discovery in virtual surgery and simulation.  

storyC3Kitware Attends IEEE ICCCV 2013   
Computer Vision Team Members Presented Papers at the International Conference

 

Members of Kitware's Computer Vision Team attended the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision held in early December in Sydney, Australia. Anthony Hoogs served as the conference's Corporate Relations Co-Chair, and Kitware was a Silver sponsor for the event.  

 

At the conference, Eran Swears and Anthony Hoogs presented the paper "Pyramid Coding for Functional Scene Element Recognition in Video Scenes," which was also co-authored by Kim Boyer (RPI). The paper, sponsored by a DARPA STTR, focuses on efficiently recognizing objects in video scenes based on the activity that occurs around them.   

 

In addition, the paper "Compositional Models for Video Event Detection: A Multiple Kernel Learning Latent Variable Approach" was presented at the conference. The paper is authored by Arash Vahdat, Kevin Cannons, and Greg Mori, along with Kitware's Sangmin Oh and Ilseo Kim. The paper details the recognition of complex events in internet videos. It was completed in collaboration with Simon Fraser University and was sponsored by Kitware's ALADDIN project.  

 

Furthermore, as part of the workshop on Large-Scale Video Search and Mining, the collaborative paper "Learning Non-linear Calibration for Score Fusion with Applications to Image and Video Classification," was presented. This paper was co-authored by Tianyang Ma, Sangmin Oh, Amitha Perera, and Longin Jan Latecki. The work presented in the paper was the result of a collaborative effort between Kitware and Temple University.

storyE5Kitwareans Experiment With 3D Printer
New 3D Printer Bringing Digital Data Into the Physical World  

 

Kitware recently added the Makerbot Replicator 2X to its collection of 3D printers, which also includes the Printerbot Simple KIT. The Makerbot Replicator 2X is the experimental version of the Makerbot Replicator 2. While the Makerbot Replicator 2X only required a few steps for assembly, it took seven hours for five Kitwareans to put together the Printerbot Simple KIT.

 

After the assembly was complete on the Makerbot Replicator 2X, Kitwareans gathered to test the printer. Among the first things created were a caffeine molecule and a physical model of the OpenFOAM motorbike dataset, which is shown in the picture on the right. The honeycomb structure around the motorcycle is made by the printer to serve as a scaffolding, which holds in place pieces that otherwise would be "floating" during the printing process. The support is typically removed once the printing is completed.