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Testing is what keeps the software stable.

Communication among the members of the ITK community is what helps manage the rapid evolution of the software. The key features of extreme programming are communication and testing. Extreme programming collapses the usual software creation methodology into a simultaneous and iterative process of design-implement-test-release. ITK uses a model of software development referred to as extreme programming. ITK's implementation employs the technique of generic programming through the use of C++ templates.Д«ecause ITK is an open-source project, developers from around the world can use, debug, maintain, and extend the software. This enables developers to create software using a variety of programming languages. In addition, an automated wrapping process generates interfaces between C++ and other programming languages such as Java and Python. ITK is cross-platform, using the CMake build environment to manage the compilation process. For example, in the medical environment, a CT scan may be aligned with an MRI scan in order to combine the information contained in both.

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Registration is the task of aligning or developing correspondences between data. Typically the sampled representation is an image acquired from such medical instrumentation as CT or MRI scanners. Segmentation is the process of identifying and classifying data found in a digitally sampled representation. ITK is an open-source software toolkit for performing registration and segmentation.

In addition, several subcontractors rounded out the consortium including Peter Ratiu at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Celina Imielinska and Pat Molholt at Columbia University, Jim Gee at UPenn's Grasp Lab, and George Stetten at University of Pittsburgh. The Principal Investigators for these partners were, respectively, Bill Lorensen at GE CRD, Will Schroeder at Kitware, Vikram Chalana at Insightful, Stephen Aylward with Luis IbГЎГ±ez at UNC (both of whom subsequently moved to Kitware), Ross Whitaker with Josh Cates at UT (both now at Utah), and Dimitris Metaxas at UPenn (Dimitris Metaxas is now at Rutgers University). These consortium members included the three commercial partners GE Corporate R&D, Kitware, Inc., and MathSoft (the company name is now Insightful) and the three academic partners University of North Carolina ( UNC), University of Tennessee (UT), and University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). Terry Yoo, who coordinated the six prime contractors who made up the Insight Software Consortium. In 1999 the US National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health awarded a three-year contract to develop an open-source registration and segmentation toolkit, which eventually came to be known as the Insight Toolkit (ITK). An offshoot of the ITK project providing a simplified interface to ITK in eight programming languages, SimpleITK, is also under active development. The software is implemented in C++ and it is wrapped for Python. ITK uses the CMake build environment to manage the configuration process. The toolkit provides leading-edge segmentation and registration algorithms in two, three, and more dimensions. ITK stands for The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit. ITK was developed with funding from the National Library of Medicine ( U.S.) as an open resource of algorithms for analyzing the images of the Visible Human Project. ITK is a cross-platform, open-source application development framework widely used for the development of image segmentation and image registration programs.

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