Stephen Aylward: The case of Open-source software

Stephen Aylward, Ph.D., is the senior director of strategic initiatives and founder of Kitware’s North Carolina office. He helps drive multiple research and open source software development projects at Kitware. Over the past 25+ years, Stephen has conducted medical image analysis research covering nearly every aspect of health care, including screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, guidance, and outcome assessment for mammography, neurosurgery, partial liver transplantation, retinopathy of prematurity, stroke, traumatic brain injury, pre-clinical cancer studies, and others. He has also been instrumental in the creation of the Insight Toolkit (ITK), major updates to 3D Slicer, and the development of new technologies and the VTK.js library for web-based scientific visualization.