Engineering:September 12, 2007

Goals

Catch up on latest developments, set priorities, identify issues. Also brainstorm on competitive renewal.

Plan

One day in Clifton Park, 10am to 4pm. Location is the Comfort Suites Hotel in Clifton Park, NY. Please go to http://www.kitware.com/profile/Map.pdf for more information.

Boston people can plan for one (somewhat long) day or stay over.

Hot Topics

review of the needs of the DBPs

• UNC
• JHU/Queens
• MIND
• Harvard
  • Structural Pipeline
    • bias field correction missing (independent of EM)
    • intensity normalization missing
    • skull stripping (PNL currently using FSL BET)
    • EMSegmentation (still some issues with slicer3 module vs slicer2 -- being worked on, ball in Sylvain's court)
    • Unbiased atlas creation (several people working on it, no finished tool yet)
  • Diffusion Pipeline
    • DICOM to NRRD (general solution would be great if it were possible)
    • Eddy Current Correction (also requested by IUPUI; PNL currently using Affine reg in FSL)
    • Outlier rejection (Marc is working on automated detection tool)
    • Filtering : Rician noise model (LMI tool from Santi)

Slicer3 release

• Technical issues
  • Build process
  • CPack (see below)
• what are roadblocks?
  • crashes?
  • critical functionality?
  • modules
    • interactive editor
    • EM segmenter
    • DTI functionality
    • data fusion
• Review of release process and schedule
  • Code freeze, ...

Year 4 Workplan

The "next" EM Segmenter

• Registration (rigid and non-rigid; modules to create statistical atlases)
• DTI (visualize; advanced queries; rendering performance, Runge-Kutta, etc.)
• Interactive editing

Documentation

• NAMIC Kit Overview (as requested by NIH)
• Practical Software Process

BatchMake interface

• Data sharing
  • Access to MIDAS and other database repositories from within Slicer
• Batch(Make) modules
  • EMSegmenter
  • OtsuThreshold
  • Registration(?)

cpack

• rpm, deb
• na-mic kit available via standard linux distribution sites?
• visual studio 8 issues
• other topics from project week

Volume rendering in Slicer3

View latest work

kwwidgets

• gui tracing for macros and replay (and for creating tests)?
• file browser multithreading
• access to events from scripting languages
• "testing mode"
  • avoid the confirmation dialog on exit
  • avoid being influenced by the user's registry
  • avoid polluting the user's registry
• other follow ups from project week discussions

Interactions

• 3D Widgets
• Level-of-detail?
• Oblique slice plane specifier?
• Disambiguating "picking" with mouse

command line modules

• passing mrml scenes back and forth

Administrative

Competitive Renewal

• where do we want to be 7 years from now?
• what is the state of medical image computing likely to be?
• what is the state of computing likely to be?

wiki 2 web and PublicationDB

• perl script translation
• counting downloads
• integrated license agreement

Attendees

Confirmed (please add your name so we can keep count to estimate room size etc):

• Steve, Ron, Nicole, Katie, Will, Dan, Jim, Alex, Old Bill, Sebastien, Zack, Dave Cole, Stephen