View source for AHM2010:NA-MIC Kit Update

 Back to [[AHM_2010#Agenda|AHM 2010]]
==Goals==
Information about NA-MIC Kit component developments over the past year so that developers will have an idea of what new features are available for their use.

=== ITK ===

* [http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_10th_Anniversary_Activities ITK turned 10 years old!]
* Slicer currently uses [http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/ITK?2009_09_16&ITK+3.16+Released ITK 3.16]
* [http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/149 Label image classes], [http://hdl.handle.net/1926/584 Label map classes], Label map morphology
* [http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3055 Region based Level Sets]
* Improvements in Streaming large images
* QuadEdgeMesh spherical registration
** Rigid (in NAMIC Sandbox)
** Deformable (Diffeomorphic Demons) (in NAMIC Sandbox)
** Improvements in the QuadEdgeMesh filter class (in ITK to support the two above).
* Pixel coordinates consistency
* Multi-threaded registration framework (fixes)
** multi-threaded metrics
** thread-safe transforms
* Hessian-based shape descriptors
* Fractal dimensions
* [http://hdl.handle.net/1926/585 FFT based image reconstruction]

=== VTK ===
* VTK 5.4 released
* vtkWidgets
* [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/ARB VTK ARB] formed 
* [http://vtk.uservoice.com/pages/31508-general User Voice] added to gather community feedback 
* [http://www.midasjournal.org/?journal=35 VTK Journal]
* [http://www.vtkedge.org/ VTK Edge] will be consolidated into VTK
* In progress:
** [http://blog.cryos.net/archives/236-VTK-New-2D-API,-Canvas-and-Charting-Features.html VTK 2D Charting]
** Informatics
** Examples makeover
** git mirror of VTK

=== Teem ===
* [http://teem.sf.net Teem] 1.11 Soon to be Released
** release branch being used in slicer3 nightly builds
** Many improvements and new features described in the [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=9FE12D1D-D52B-40F6-B793-D8AA9D2124CB%40uchicago.edu&forum_name=teem-users Teem 1.11 Change Log Message]
* Python wrappers (auto-generated by ctypeslib) now included in teem/python/ctypes; used previously for [[Two-tensor tractography in Slicer using Python and Teem]]
* The tenGage kind (for doing convolution-based measurements in tensor fields) now includes direct computation of the fiber curving (tenGageFiberCurving) and fiber dispersion (tenGageFiberDispersion) indices used in [[2009_Summer_Project_Week_Slicer3_Fibre_Dispersion|Slicer module for the computation of fibre dispersion and curving measures]] (Peter Savadjiev BWH)
* New [http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~glk/ssp/ scale space partices] functionality, with applications to lung airway segmentation and white matter skeletonization from DTI
* New applications of scale-space particles for COPD with Raul San Jose (see http://www.airwayinspector.org/)
* New functionality from Thomas Schultz to implement fast crease surface extraction (see his recent TVCG paper [[http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~schultz/papers/schultz-crease-2008.pdf]])

=== XNAT ===

* [http://groups.google.com/group/xnat_discussion/browse_thread/thread/f46581afed629a5c XNAT 1.4 RC3] available
** More robust QC modeling via xnat:qcManualAssessorData. 
** New 'columns' variable for REST based listings. 
** LDAP support. 
** Improved memory footprint and efficiency. 
** Refactored Search UI in the listing engine. 
** Prebuilt XNAT images using VMWare and Virtualbox
* [http://code.google.com/p/xnatfs/ xnatfs] provides WebDav access to XNAT instances

=== GWE ===

* Interactive experiments' results browser.
* CSV and generated commands dumps and preview.
* Support for LSF and Lava cluster DRMs.
* Ability to override auto-discovered DRMs with configured ones.
* Ability to override default database installation location.
* Function to extract experiments' parameters from text files.
* Operations to delete, pause and resume experiments.
* Recommended to watch: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXdRks5Wu5Q 5 minutes demo video].

=== BatchMake ===
* Improvement in the integration of grid computing using condor.
* Semi-Automatic conversion of Slicer modules for batch processing
* Parameter exploration is now possible
* Execution of algorithms are faster

=== CMake/CPack/CTest/CDash ===
* parallel ctest (ctest -j)
* cpack
* conversion to cmake in-progress
* linkage between CTest and MIDAS in progress
** Host large datasets for algorithm validation and performance testing
*** Demonstrated using RegisterImages

=== 3D Slicer ===
* List of new modules and features (TBD)
** See here for a list of [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation-3.5#List_of_Modules_new_to_3.5 modules new to 3.5].
* 3.4/3.4.1 release information
* Extension Architecture and Extension Modules
* ARRA Supplement Projects
* Qt Port (lead in to Julien's 8:30 session)
** Co-existence of KWWidgets and Qt
** Creation of a subset of the needed Qt widgets
** Full port in Qt of first modules
** Design of the core architecture in Qt (plugin mechanism, Command line modules, widget libraries...)
** Tutorials for the slicer developer community to port modules
** [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/Gallery Gallery] and [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/Tutorials Tutorials]
* More info on the [https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Main_Page#News Slicer wiki News Page]
* multi-camera view in Slicer (endoscopy application)

=== Other Topics ===

* [http://Commontk.org Common Toolkit]