Next week at the RSNA 2010 Conference, Kitware will be making some big announcements of interest to the medical visualization community.

At the conference, Kitware will highlight a number of applications and technologies designed to deliver advanced medical imaging solutions based on free and open source software for scientists and engineers. In addition, Kitware will make an announcement in regards to VolView, a biomedical imaging research application that the company says will have a definitive impact on researchers worldwide.

They will be presenting a course on “Open Source Tools for Medical Research & Applications”, discussing use of VTK and ITK in the Biomedical space.  In addition, they’ll be demonstrating tools like Slicer3 and MIDAS, and a new open-source lesion sizing toolkit.

via Kitware, Leading US Builder of Open Source Technology and Developer of Advanced Research Solutions, Unveils Plans for the RSNA 2010 Conference.