EngineeringRetreat2010

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Goals: Develop clarity and a plan for this year's work; establish broader strategic vision for the next four NAMIC years.

• When: November 17-18 (Wednesday and Thursday). Start time: noon Wednesday, end time: early afternoon Thursday
• Where: Boston SPL
• Who: Engineering Core leaders and key personnel

Initial Brainstorming Topics

http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer4

http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer4:Developers

• • Wishlist for Engineering core:
    • Rons number 1: unified load: harmonize loading of different types of data, from local and remote data sources. Make plans for logic components, local database & UI design
    • Rons number 2: Review Slicer3 bug tracker for issues and feature requests - in particular widgets, command line modules, improved transforms/registration...
    • Rons number 3: Finish Slicer4 (Qt port) on schedule
    • Rons number 4: Annotated thumbnails everywhere: mrml files, scene snapshots, individual volumes and models
      • Ability to replace existing thumbnails, edit annotations
    • GUI Testing
      • There is now an open-source method for automated testing of Qt-based applications: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Testing_design
    • Support scenes containing data that spans multiple scales in time and space
      • visualize, indicate correspondence and support interactions with a scene in which the data differ by orders of magnitude and change over time
    • Scene snapshot module: reorder, rename
    • Investigate use of a binary mask used with volume rendering to specify non-rectilinear ROIs, to display segmentation results, and to display effects of interactive editing
    • extended save: save to local and remote destinations. Make plans for logic components, DB transaction, and UI design.
    • organizing multiple data sets from one subject: time series, image fusion etc.
    • VTK 3D Widgets plans
    • Make plans for a new and improved Editor for slicer4
      • Grow Cuts, RSS and fast Marching with volume cropping and volume rendering
      • Gestures in 2d and 3d
    • Infrastructure that supports simultaneous GPU-based volume rendering and GPU-based interactive segmentation methods (vtkWidgets)
    • Define a "Core" Slicer that can be distributed with InsightApplications repository of ITKv4
      • Two audiences:
        • Simple Interface for Radiologists
        • Simple, Extensible Platform for Developers (for custom apps/interfaces).
    • Guidelines and examples for GPU-based algorithms
    • Interactive/iterative command-line modules (e.g., tied to a vtkWidget)
    • DICOM via CTK
    • Determine an alternative to Mantis/bug-tracking. We have over 495 bugs.
    • Batch processing (IPython) examples
      • includes an algorithm validation framework
    • Interact with ITKv4, CTK, NiPy, and other like-minded projects.
    • Review Slicer application framework to support modularization and customization