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Goals

Catch up on latest developments, set priorities, identify issues. Also brainstorm on competitive renewal.

Plan

One day in Clifton Park, 10am to 4pm. Location is the Comfort Suites Hotel in Clifton Park, NY. Please go to http://www.kitware.com/profile/Map.pdf for more information.

Boston people can plan for one (somewhat long) day or stay over.

Hot Topics

Review of the needs of the DBPs

UNC
JHU/Queens
MIND
Harvard
- Structural Pipeline
  - bias field correction missing (independent of EM)
  - intensity normalization missing
  - skull stripping (PNL currently using FSL BET)
  - EMSegmentation (still some issues with slicer3 module vs slicer2 -- being worked on, ball in Sylvain's court)
  - Unbiased atlas creation (several people working on it, no finished tool yet)
- Diffusion Pipeline
  - DICOM to NRRD (general solution would be great if it were possible)
  - Eddy Current Correction (also requested by IUPUI; PNL currently using Affine reg in FSL)
  - Outlier rejection (Marc is working on automated detection tool)
  - Filtering : Rician noise model (LMI tool from Santi)

Scope: Ongoing

Slicer3 release

Technical issues
- Build process
- CPack (see below)
what are roadblocks?
- crashes?
- critical functionality?
- modules
  - interactive editor
  - EM segmenter
  - DTI functionality
  - data fusion
Review of release process and schedule
- Code freeze, ...

Scope: Jan 1 Release (pre-AHM)

Year 4 Workplan

The "next" EM Segmenter

Registration (rigid and non-rigid; modules to create statistical atlases)
DTI (visualize; advanced queries; rendering performance, Runge-Kutta, etc.)
Interactive editing

Documentation

NAMIC Kit Overview (as requested by NIH)
Practical Software Process

BatchMake interface

Data sharing
- Access to MIDAS and other database repositories from within Slicer
Batch(Make) modules
- EMSegmenter
- OtsuThreshold
- Registration(?)

cpack

rpm, deb
na-mic kit available via standard linux distribution sites?
visual studio 8 issues
other topics from project week

Volume rendering in Slicer3

View latest work

kwwidgets

gui tracing for macros and replay (and for creating tests)?
file browser multithreading
access to events from scripting languages
"testing mode"
- avoid the confirmation dialog on exit
- avoid being influenced by the user's registry
- avoid polluting the user's registry
other follow ups from project week discussions

Interactions

3D Widgets
Level-of-detail?
Oblique slice plane specifier?
Disambiguating "picking" with mouse

command line modules

passing mrml scenes back and forth

Administrative

Competitive Renewal

where do we want to be 7 years from now?
what is the state of medical image computing likely to be?
what is the state of computing likely to be?

wiki 2 web and PublicationDB

perl script translation
counting downloads
integrated license agreement

Attendees

Confirmed (please add your name so we can keep count to estimate room size etc):

Steve, Ron, Nicole, Katie, Will, Dan, Jim, Alex, Old Bill, Sebastien, Zack, Dave Cole, Stephen

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 == Hot Topics ==
-=== review of the needs of the DBPs===
+=== Review of the needs of the DBPs===
 * UNC
 * JHU/Queens
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 *** Outlier rejection (Marc is working on automated detection tool)
 *** Filtering : Rician noise model (LMI tool from Santi)
+<em> Scope: Ongoing </em>
 ===Slicer3 release===
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 * Review of release process and schedule
 ** Code freeze, ...
+<em> Scope: Jan 1 Release (pre-AHM)</em>
 == Year 4 Workplan ==