Training

Kitware’s professional training courses offer the best opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of our open-source products as part of a high quality, cross-platform software development process.

Tailored to your expertise level and your needs, these courses allow both users and developers to discover or master the benefit of tools such as CMake, ITK, ParaView, 3D Slicer or VTK.

Training Courses Agenda

March 31 & April 1, 2025	CMake
April 2, 2025	3D Slicer
April 3, 2025	Slicer for developers
April 4, 2025	Introduction to Kitware web technologies
April 7, 2025	ITK
April 8, 2025	MONAI
April 9, 2025	VTK for data exploration & visualization
April 10, 2025	VTK for application developers
April 11, 2025	ActiViz
April 14, 2025	ParaView user
April 15, 2025	ParaView advanced
April 16, 2025	VTK for medical imaging
April 17, 2025	VTK for augmented & virtual reality (XR)
April 21, 2025	VTK.js
April 22, 2025	trame
April 23, 2025	LidarView
April 24, 2025	LiDAR SLAM

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This course covers in depth how CMake works and how to efficiently write CMake scripts for small to larger projects. The second part of the course covers unit testing with CTest, packaging with CPack and continuous integration with CDash. The training mixes theory and application with a set of tutorials and exercises.

CMake Course Schedule

This training will present the common uses of the VTK toolkit using a practical oriented methodology.
The training mixes theory and application with a set of tutorials and exercises.

VTK.JS Course Schedule

ActiViz Course Schedule

VTK for Data Exploration Course

VTK for Application Developers Course

This course will give an overview of ParaView: how to visualize and process data. The examples are based on use cases from several scientific domains.

The training mixes theory and application with a set of tutorials and exercises.

ParaView User Course

Advanced ParaView Course

The Insight Toolkit is a powerful library for image processing and analysis. This course covers the basic architecture of ITK and how to implement algorithms using the framwork.

ITK Course Schedule

3DSlicer is a visualization and analysis software dedicated to image data. Its intuitive GUI allows for using advanced image processing algorithm through open source libraries. The design originally focused on research projects directly or indirectly related to imaging. 3DSlicer is now used world-wide, in a variety of projects running from medical imaging to astronomy.

The objectives of this course will interest users of scientific visualization tools, but also developers willing to customize the interface.

3D Slicer Course Schedule

3D Slicer for developers

Girder is a free and open source web-based data management platform developed by Kitware as part of the Resonant data and analytics ecosystem. Girder is both a standalone application and a platform for building new web services.

Girder Course Schedule

MONAI is a freely available, community-supported, PyTorch-based framework for deep learning in healthcare imaging. It provides domain-optimized foundational capabilities for developing healthcare imaging training workflows in a native PyTorch paradigm. Nvidia is one of the main maintainers of this project.

Monai Course Schedule

LidarView performs real-time visualization and processing of LiDAR 3D data captured in real time. It is a ParaView-based application that provides specific real-time network data management for multiple LiDARs brands, as well as post-processing tools related to LiDARs. It also has a specific user interface, focused on real-time visualization and analysis of LiDAR data from leading LiDARs manufacturers.

LidarView Course Schedule

LiDAR SLAM Course Schedule