Insight Software Consortium
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| Abbreviation | ISC |
| Formation | 2002 |
| Extinction | n/a |
| Type | Non profit organization |
| Legal status | Foundation |
| Purpose/focus | Educational |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Region served | Worldwide |
| Membership | Private individuals and corporate patrons |
| Website | http://www.insightsoftwareconsortium.org/ |
The Insight Software Consortium is a non profit educational organization dedicated to the dissemination of open-source software.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Related Software Projects
The Insight Software Consortium is currently the copyright holder for the following open-source software projects
[edit] External Links
- Home Page
- List of Consortium Members listed at the Visible Human Project page at the National Library of Medicine
[edit] References
- 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, Medical Image Analysis, Volume 9, Issue 6, December 2005, Pages 503-506
- 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.
