Insight Software Consortium

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name = Insight Software Consortium


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abbreviation = ISC
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formation = 2002
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type = Non profit organization
status = Foundation
purpose = Educational
headquarters = New York, NY
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region_served = Worldwide
membership = Private individuals and corporate patrons
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website = [http://www.insightsoftwareconsortium.org/ http://www.insightsoftwareconsortium.org/]
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The Insight Software Consortium is a non profit educational organization dedicated to the dissemination of open-source software.

= Mission =

The Insight Software Consortium was conceived as a non profit organization for holding the copyright of open-source software jointly developed by commercial and academic institutions. The consortium was originally created by the developers of the Insight Toolkit ITK as a mechanism for centralizing the management of copyright for the software that each one of the different institutions contributed to the ITK toolkit. The distribution of this software as open-source was one of the requirements that the National Library of Medicine imposed to the developers of the ITK toolkit when funding the project under the scope of the Visible Human Project.

= Related Software Projects =

The Insight Software Consortium is currently the copyright holder for the following open-source software projects

* ITK
* IGSTK
* CMake (jointly with Kitware)

= External Links =

* [http://www.insightsoftwareconsortium.org/ Home Page]
* [http://visual.nlm.nih.gov/evc/programs/insight/consortium.html List of Consortium Members] listed at the Visible Human Project page at the National Library of Medicine

= References =

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16169766 Open science – combining open data and open source software: Medical image analysis with the Insight Toolkit] Editorial by Terry S. Yoo and Dimitris N. Metaxas, Guest Editors, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13618415 Medical Image Analysis] , Volume 9, Issue 6, December 2005, Pages 503-506
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15458157?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Engineering and algorithm design for an image processing Api: a technical report on ITK--the Insight Toolkit.] by Yoo TS, Ackerman MJ, Lorensen WE, Schroeder W, Chalana V, Aylward S, Metaxas D, Whitaker R. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2002;85:586-92.