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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)
Scope: Ongoing

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, ...
Scope: Jan 1 Release (pre-AHM)

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
Scope: July 2008

Documentation

NAMIC Kit Overview (as requested by NIH)
Practical Software Process
Scope: July 2008

BatchMake interface

Data sharing
- Access to MIDAS and other database repositories from within Slicer
Batch(Make) modules
- EMSegmenter
- OtsuThreshold
- Registration(?)
Scope: Jan 2008 (pre-AHM)

cpack

rpm, deb
na-mic kit available via standard linux distribution sites?
visual studio 8 issues
other topics from project week
Scope: Dec 2007 (pre-release)

Volume rendering in Slicer3

View latest work
Scope: July 2008

kwwidgets

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

Interactions

3D Widgets
Level-of-detail?
Oblique slice plane specifier?
Disambiguating "picking" with mouse
Scope: Ongoing, large scope

command line modules

passing mrml scenes back and forth
Scope: Jan 2008 (pre-AHM)

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

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 *** Outlier rejection (Marc is working on automated detection tool)
 *** Filtering : Rician noise model (LMI tool from Santi)
-<em> Scope: Ongoing </em>
+* <em> Scope: Ongoing </em>
 ===Slicer3 release===
@@ Line 44: / Line 44: @@
 * Review of release process and schedule
 ** Code freeze, ...
-<em> Scope: Jan 1 Release (pre-AHM)</em>
+* <em> Scope: Jan 1 Release (pre-AHM)</em>
 == Year 4 Workplan ==
@@ Line 52: / Line 52: @@
 * DTI (visualize; advanced queries; rendering performance, Runge-Kutta, etc.)
 * Interactive editing
+* <em> Scope: July 2008 </em>
 ===Documentation===
 * NAMIC Kit Overview (as requested by NIH)
 * Practical Software Process
+* <em> Scope: July 2008 </em>
 ===BatchMake interface===
@@ Line 64: / Line 66: @@
 ** OtsuThreshold
 ** Registration(?)
+* <em> Scope: Jan 2008 (pre-AHM) </em>
 ===cpack===
@@ Line 70: / Line 73: @@
 * visual studio 8 issues
 * other topics from project week
+* <em> Scope: Dec 2007 (pre-release) </em>
 ===Volume rendering in Slicer3===
-[[Slicer3:Volume_Rendering|View latest work]]
+* [[Slicer3:Volume_Rendering|View latest work]]
+* <em> Scope: July 2008 </em>
 ===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
+* access to events from scripting languages
+* gui tracing for macros and replay (and for creating tests)?
+* file browser multithreading
 * other follow ups from [[Special_topic_breakout:_KWWidgets | project week discussions]]
+* <em> Scope: Ongoing, large scope </em>
 ===Interactions===
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 * Oblique slice plane specifier?
 * Disambiguating "picking" with mouse
+* <em> Scope: Ongoing, large scope </em>
 ===command line modules===
 * passing mrml scenes back and forth
+* <em> Scope: Jan 2008 (pre-AHM) </em>
 == Administrative ==