Kitware Welcomes New Employee
Kitware welcomes Rick Avila as Director of Medical Applications. Mr. Avila, was formerly at GE Research where he started and led the first Computer Aided Detection (CAD) program. In his role at Kitware, Rick is leading the development of open source imaging toolkits and products that significantly improve the effectiveness of healthcare including image-guided intervention, quantitative disease and therapy assessment, and clinical image interpretation. To learn more about new employees, please visit Kitware’s Team Members listed in our company profile.
Kitware, Inc. is a leading software development company providing products and services in the areas of medical image analysis, visualization and 3D graphics, supercomputing, computer vision, open publication, and software quality process. Kitware is known for its advanced open source software tools such as the widely used Visualization Toolkit (VTK), Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), and the CMake build management software. Established in 1998, Kitware is rapidly growing to support top research and development clients around the world; including such prestigious customers as the US National Labs (Sandia, Los Alamos, Livermore, and Argonne), the National Institutes of Health, the Army and Air Force Research labs, and a variety of academic, commercial and governmental research labs. Our commercial customers range from Fortune 500 oil and gas companies to small medical imaging start ups.