View source for Engineering:TCON 05 26 2005

'''Agenda'''

* Welcome back to Bill Lorensen
* Administrivia ( Bill, ''et. al.'' )
* Updates to programming week projects (Tina, Jim, Xiaodong,...)
* Data management system for population studies ( Dan, Jim )
* Pipeline has a new build [http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/bin/view/Pipeline/BleedingEdgeBuild v3.0.alpha3.3]
** mike is unavailable to attend the tcon today,

'''Attendees'''

* Bill Lorensen
* Dan Blezek
* Jim Miller
* Rick Avila
* Luis Ibanez
* Andy Cedilnik
* Jason Gerk
* Jagadeeswaran Rajendiran (Jags)

'''Minutes'''

* Update by Jim on the project with Martin Styner at UNC for modeling populations of shapes .
** Find an object among a set.
** Decompose an object shaphe on sub-parts.
** Identify when there are differences that are statistically significant.
** Proposed to implement a set of command line tools. Using the LONI pipeline for this purpose.
*** How to involve DataBase management ?
*** Facilitates to perform nightly regression testing on real data.
* LONI Pipeline new release
** Jim reported some problems while running this new version.
** Jim will get help from the LONI team.
* Update by Andy on CVS access to ITK
** New rules and mechanisms for maintaining the list of developers with names and emails.
** New password for rolling up the ITK Dashboard.
* Book recomendations from GE
** [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E6DB1731F932A35756C0A9639C8B63 "The world is flat"]
** The fourth chapter of this book talks about Open Source (in good terms).
** [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374292884/104-5891421-3507160?v=glance At Amazon]
* ITK update
** adding support for images of pixel type std::complex<>
** now supporting reading and writing of complex images.