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'''Location: 1249 Boylston St, Boston, MA''' [http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/directions/1249Boylston/Boylston-facility.html directions]

= Monday September 26th: Engineering and DBP Discussion =

[[Engineering:Sept262005|Highlights]]

Goal: Core 3 to give feedback on how they are using the NAMIC Kit in their daily work.

* noon-1pm: Meet and greet
* 1-2:15pm Feedback from UCI on NAMIC Kit [[Media:26sep2005.ppt|ppt presentation]]
* 2:15-3:30pm Feedback from Dartmouth on NAMIC Kit [[Media:DARTMOUTH.ppt|ppt presentation]]
* 3:30-3:50pm break
* 3:50-5:00pm Discussion of features required going forward, Conclusion
* Dinner

= Tuesday September 27th Engineering Discussion =

== 9am-noon: Slicer 3.0 Architecure decision making ==

* Agenda Creation

* Summarize Goals of Slicer 3
** Serve as Application for Core 3 users of Core 1 Algorithms implemented in ITK
** Enforce Modularity
** Broader Development Base (interoperate with different languages, GUI toolkits)

* Technology Discussions
** Slicer Protocol (Steve)
** MRML / Coordinate / Publish and Subscribe (Mike)
** KWWidgets / Widgets / VolView Update (Will)

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* Implementation Issues
** Wrapping ITK Algorithms as Modules
*** Filter Watcher, Build as Standalone Executable or Linked Library
** UI Definition (GUI and CLI)
*** Command line introspection
*** Progress reporting
** Process Control (Abort, Sync/Async)
** Communication
*** Serialization of the Scene, Semantics, Coordinate Systems
*** RPC-like back and forth exchanges (what capabilities are provided by Slicer Base?)
** Provenance
** Exporting Scene description to text and binary files

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* Timelines and Action Items

* ** By All Hands Meeting
*** ITK I/O Factory communicating over sockets to slicer 2.x (Steve, Alex)
**** Example executable-based modules:
***** Smooth and image
***** Segmentation
***** Registration
*** TCLAP based XML version of help/interface (Dan, Jim)

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* ** At All Hands Meeting

== 1-2pm ==

fMRI in slicer review (Wendy, Haiying, Bill, Will, Jim, Steve, Sandy) Background discussion before Polina and Wanmei arrive.

== 2-5pm: fMRI statistics ==

Bill, Jim, Will, Sandy, Steve, Wendy, Carsten, Haiying, Polina, Wanmei

* ** *** Current VTK (EMSegmenter) and Matlab (Eric Cosman, Wanmei) based implementations
*** Migration to ITK and/or improved VTK methods
**** Discuss existing and planned MRF infrastructure [[http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/insight-users/2005-May/013429.html see this discussion on the ITK mailing list]]
***** ICM based filters in current ITK
***** Need: MF, Min-Cut/Max-Flow
**** Review existing MI infrastructure and discuss its applicability to activation detection
**** Migrating GLM from GSL to VNL (vtkITK wrapper)
*** Estimates of amount of effort, action items

= Wednesday September 28th Engineering Discussion =

* 9:15-10:15 Misc:
** MICCAI Workshop talk (NAMIC Kit: Jim 30 min, NAMIC Overview: Ron 10 min, Slicer: Steve 20 min)
** BugTracker
** NIH Forge
* 10:30-noon non-linear ITK registration, widgets