Engineering:TCON 03 31 2005

This is our first weekly engineering TCON.

Agenda

• Image Orientation Update (Bill L)

• Dart 2 Update (Dan)

• Octave/MATLAB Interface from VTK/ITK (Steve)

• NRRD library (Steve)
  • reading DWI/tensors files
  • eddy current correction and other utils
  • lgpl issues

• Adoption of systems to facilitate communications (Ron and Steve)
  • VNC (www.realvnc.com)
  • Skype (http://www.skype.com/)
  • IM
  • Others?

• SRB Tunneling

• Who will be able to attend our week long "programmers retreat" in summer (where core 1 students/researchers work with core 2 to finish up their ITK/Slicer contributions for Yr1)? Location TBD between Niskayuna and Boston. Time TBD but please give your constraints. (Tina, except I won't be able to attend the TCON this time, so if you could please leave the info here. Thanks.)
  • Pipeline v3 beta will be released by then... does this retreat include Pipeline?

Meeting notes (Dan B.)

Attendees: Michael Pan, Bill Lorensen, Xiaodong Tao, Dan Blezek, Jim Miller, Andy Cedlnik, Luis Ibanez, Jeffrey Grethe, Steve Pieper

Image Orientation Update (Bill L.)

• Embed orientation in itkImage, rather than in the application
• Discussion was carried out on the ITK Wiki
• Not used by default in registration
• Need to modify readers to populate Orientation, DICOM is finished, NRRD remains to be done

Dart2/ctest update (Dan B., Andy C.)

• ctest supports submissions to Dart2, support will be added to submit to multiple dashboards
  • Will refactor ctest to get global parameters from project source code, rather than from CMake/Dart tcl client
• Game plan:
  • Setup Dart2 for a given dashboard
  • Validate Dart2 against Dart to verify submissions are complete
  • Setup Freesurfer and BIRN by 5/05, rather than have them use Dart
  • Announce Dart2 to lists at same time

Octave/MATLAB interface (Steve P.)

• Would like to call Matlab .m scripts on a selected volume from Slicer
  • Need to define a consistent interface in the .m, and a standard reader/writer in Matlab
  • Matlab is licensed software, and Octave is gpl

NRRD library (Steve P.)

• Would like to use unu utilities for some DTI processing
• LGPL
  • Is LGPL NAMIC compatable?
  • Not possible to get a legal position, as there is no prior rulings
• Need to assemble a list of licenses used in NAMIC, need volunteer

Document sharing (Steve P.)

• VNC is a good choice, have had a lot of experience with it, can tunnel through GE's firewall
• Skype is not possible, as it's prohibited by GE

Lightweight process tools (Bill L.)

• Need to look into tools

Programmer's retreat (Bill L., Steve P.)

• Niskayuna is not best choice, due to logistics
• Logistics of Boston may be better
• Where to hold? @ BWH or in a hotel?
• Pipeline v3 should be ready by June '05 to be released
  • Can provide base jar, need to assemble supporting jars
  • Would like to create simple processing pipeline, i.e. anisotropic diffusion run on all SRB data
  • List of Attendees, and schedule conflicts

SRB Tunneling (Jeff G., Dan B.)

• Need to coordinate with Jason to get SRB tunnelling machine at GE
• Dan to follow up with Jason / Jeff / Steve