ITK-SNAP Readme

# ITK-SNAP README (Versions 2.1.4 and Later)

### Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in ITK-SNAP! By using this program you are joining an ever growing community of SNAP users from research labs around the world. ITK-SNAP is an open-source software application made possible by the committment of dedicated developers, who often make contributions on a volunteer basis. Original development of ITK-SNAP was supported by the U.S. National Library of Medicine through PO 467-MZ-202446-1. Subsequent development of ITK-SNAP version 2.0 has been supported by the U.S. National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and BioEngineering and the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience through grant 1 R03 EB008200-01.

ITK-SNAP is the result of over 10 years of work by many researchers, software engineers and students. Please visit the Credits page to learn about the people that made ITK-SNAP possible!

### Get Involved!

Your participation as a user, developer or sponsor is essential to ensuring a bright future for ITK-SNAP future. There are many ways in which you can contribute to the stability and quality of this program:

- By participating in the ITK-SNAP User and Developer Mailing Lists.
- By reporting bugs and suggesting enhancements using the Bug Tracker.
- By joining the ITK-SNAP Development Team on SourceForge.net and contributing source code.

### Getting Started

- If you downloaded ITK-SNAP as a binary executable from itksnap.org, you can get started by reading the online tutorial.
- If you downloaded ITK-SNAP source code, please follow these online instructions to compile and build ITK-SNAP.
- You will need a 3D image to use this software. Images with which ITK-SNAP is known to work can be downloaded from http://www.itksnap.org/download/snap

### Asking Questions

If you have a question about ITK-SNAP, here are the places where you may find an answer. Keep in mind that since ITK-SNAP in not a commercial product, it may take a little while for an answer to arrive!

- If you have an question about how to use SNAP or why it's not doing what it should, post in on the ITK-SNAP Users' List.
- If you have a technical question or a questing related to ITK, join the ITK Users' Mailing List and post your question there.