AHM2010:NA-MIC Kit Update

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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

• ITK turned 10 years old!
• Slicer currently uses ITK 3.16
• Label image classes, Label map classes, Label map morphology
• 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).
• Region based Level Sets
• Pixel coordinates consistency
• Multi-threaded registration framework
  • multi-threaded metrics
  • thread-safe transforms
• Hessian-based shape descriptors
• Fractal dimensions
• FFT based image reconstruction

VTK

• VTK 5.4 released
• vtkWidgets
• VTK ARB formed
• User Voice added to gather community feedback
• VTK Journal
• VTK Edge will be consolidated into VTK
• In progress:
  • VTK 2D Charting
  • Informatics
  • Examples makeover
  • git mirror of VTK

Teem

• Teem 1.11 Soon to be Released
  • release branch being used in slicer3 nightly builds
  • Many improvements and new features described in the Teem 1.11 Change Log Message
• New scale space crease functionality
• New applications for COPD with Raul San Jose (see http://www.airwayinspector.org/)

XNAT

• 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.
• 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: 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 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
  • Gallery and Tutorials
• More info on the Slicer wiki News Page
• multi-camera view in Slicer (endoscopy application)

Other Topics

• Common Toolkit