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\label {sec:History }
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\index {ITK!history}
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- % % TODO: History needs to be updated.
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In 1999 the US National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of
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Health awarded six three-year contracts to develop an open-source
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registration and segmentation toolkit, that eventually came to be known as
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the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and formed the basis of the Insight Software
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Consortium. ITK's NIH/NLM Project Manager was Dr. Terry Yoo, who coordinated the
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six prime contractors composing the Insight consortium. These consortium
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members included three commercial partners---GE Corporate R\& D, Kitware,
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- Inc., and MathSoft (the company name is now Insightful) ---and three academic
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+ Inc., and MathSoft---and three academic
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partners---University of North Carolina (UNC), University of Tennessee (UT)
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(Ross Whitaker subsequently moved to University of Utah), and University of
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Pennsylvania (UPenn). The Principle Investigators for these partners were,
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respectively, Bill Lorensen at GE CRD, Will Schroeder at Kitware, Vikram
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Chalana at Insightful, Stephen Aylward with Luis Ib\' {a}\~ {n}ez at UNC (Luis
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- is now at Google), Ross Whitaker with Josh Cates at UT (both now at Utah) ,
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+ is now at Google), Ross Whitaker with Josh Cates at UT,
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and Dimitri Metaxas at UPenn (now at Rutgers). In addition, several
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subcontractors rounded out the consortium including Peter Raitu at Brigham \&
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Women's Hospital, Celina Imielinska and Pat Molholt at Columbia University,
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addition, the National Library of Medicine awarded thirteen contracts to
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several organizations to extend ITK's capabilities. The NLM has funded
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maintenance of the toolkit over the years, and a major funding effort was
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- started in July 2010 that culminated with the release of ITK 4.0.0 in
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- December 2011. If you are interested in potential funding opportunities,
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- we suggest that you contact Dr. Terry Yoo at the National Library of Medicine
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- for more information .
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+ started in July 2010 that culminated with the release of ITK 4.0.0 in December
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+ 2011. The ITK community completed a major modernization of the toolkit's
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+ interface, architectural improvements for improved performance, and Python
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+ packages for rapid prototyping with ITK 5.0.0, released in May 2019 .
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