Over 1800 ITK users include members of nearly every major medical image research center including Johns Hopkins, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Carnegie Mellon, the Mayo Clinic and Stanford. ITK, which began as part of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, has earned broad acceptance within academia and industry. These extensions will offer specialized features for targeted applications, such as video processing for endoscopy applications, blur reduction algorithms for microscopy applications, and data and trial management capabilities for clinical research organizations. This work will extend Kitware’s web-based tools for collaborative development to support the development and distribution of modular extensions to ITK. Kitware, one of the original ITK development teamss 10 years ago, is now one of the six institutes charged with revising ITK’s architecture to meet growing demand from the research community for a simplified user experience and increased support for high-performance computing.Īs part of its effort, Kitware will also modernize ITK’s collaborative software development infrastructure and software engineering processes. National Institutes of Health, with program management provided by the National Library of Medicine, ITK is an established foundation for medical imaging research and the distribution of advanced imaging solutions. Kitware’s proposal will go towards lowering the learning curve for researchers and developers, and incorporating innovative high-performance computing technologies, while maintaining the toolkit’s versatility and industry-leading capabilities.Ĭreated with funding from the U.S.
MEDINRIA VIDEO REGISTRATION
A dynamic, self-sustaining, cross-platform, and open source application development framework, ITK is used freely in a multitude of commercial and non-commercial image segmentation and registration programs. Kitware today announced it has received a $1.07 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to improve the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK).