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== Slicer / XND Design and Engineering Planning ==

== Logistics ==
*Confirmed date: Tuesday, '''December 15 (11-4pm), 2009'''
*Location: WUSTL Campus, East Building

== Goals ==
The purpose of this meeting is to agree upon an engineering approach and work on interface/interaction design for integrating a future version of XNATDesktop and FileServer into Slicer. The tool is envisioned as an OsiriX-like interface that would be raised when a user selects File->Import ->Load ->Export ->Save from Slicer. It can also operate as a standalone tool, to browse, preview, mark-up remote or local datasets -- and to launch Slicer to view a selected dataset or scene. Issues to consider:

=== Design ===
* Review initial mockups, consider them against engineering practicalities
* Agree upon "bare-bones" presentation skeleton for functionality (first pass).
* Collaboration plan for merging design and engineering

=== Engineering ===
* How to leverage existing XND codes
* Java QT? -- Jambi?
* PACS interaction

=== Deliverables ===
* Report on all issues above
* Propose a timeline to be reviewed by Dan, Steve, Ron

== Questions ==

* When we search for all MRML files, or all MRML files within a project on XNAT, what do we need to know about the returned query results?
** Ron would like thumbnails generated at scene-Save for the scene as-is and for each scene snapshot.
** May want to know the data files referenced by the scene file?
** Do we want to know what the scene tree looks like?
** want Separate viewer for MRML files? (tree-view like that in Slicer?)
** useful to have rudimentary DCOM db structure-like catalog in mrml file?
* We NEED a sensible way for the layout to respond to content types / data formats that admit or do not admit thumbnails and previews.
** Keep things in the same window (no popups)
** Don't have empty frames that may lead to confusion (at first glance) that there's an error
** DICOM files may have thumbnails and previews
** NRRD files: will they have thumbnails and previews?
** MRML files: will have thumbnails but no previews.
** .vtk files: will have no thumbnails and no previews.
** random associated data -- txt files, etc. no thumbnails and no previews
* Should XND/fileserver implement SCP/SCU?

== Ron requirements ==

== Schedule ==
* Tues - Dec 15th 
** 11:00-2:00 - Design and Engineering discussion: determine:
*** scope of functionality & rough out compatible GUI skeleton
*** existing functionality we can leverage
*** extisting functionality that can be extended
*** new functionality that should be developed
*** confirm appropriate development tools (for logic & gui)
** 2:00-3:30 prioritize proposed functionality & timelines
*** determine first-pass implementation goals & fit to timeline
*** rough out design GUI skeleton for first-pass
*** fit all proposed functionality & GUI extensions to timeline
** 3:30-4:00 - Decide on collaborative work strategy

== Attendance == 
* We hope to keep this group small and tight for this first meeting:
#Mikhail Milchenko
#Wendy Plesniak

== Results ==
TBA

== Time Line ==
TBA

== References ==

[[image:SlicerXNDLayout_Draft2.png | First really really really rough sketch ]]