NA-MIC National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Kitware, Inc. Core 2 Engineering William J. Schroeder
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing About Kitware Small company founded in 1998 Expertise in –Medical image analysis –Data visualization –Parallel computing –Software process Open source business model –Consulting / service –Value-added proprietary products
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Expertise Medical Imaging Software Process Super Computing Software Quality Collaboration System Integration Cross-Platform Packaging Adaptibility Large data Parallel computing Client / Server Web / grid architectures
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Customers Research –NIH, NSF, DOD, DOE –US National Labs (LANL, Sandia, Livermore, Argonne) –University Collaboration: UNC, RPI, Brigham, OSU, MSU Commercial –Oil & Gas –Numerical Simulation –Mapping –Industrial inspection –Pharma –Animal imaging –PACS
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing NAMIC Role (Core 2) Software Process –Quality (test-driven, agile methods) –Cross-platform development Develop/Support/Extend open source tools –VTK (Visualization Toolkit) –ITK (Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit) –CMake, CTest, CPack –Interaction (3D Widgets, KWWidgets)
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Beyond NAMIC Establish de facto open source standards –Software process –Medical image analysis –Large data visualization –Leverage resulting service business Value-added commercial solutions –VolView (medical visualization) –ParaView (large, parallel data visualization)