Engineering:TCON 2008

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Slicer 3 Dartboard

Link to the Slicer 3 Dartboard here

2008-02-07

• Attendees: Ron, Will, Steve, Wendy, Nicole, David G, Mark S., Casey, Sebastien, Curt, Luca

• Review of projects from SLC AHM 2008 http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2008_Winter_Project_Week

DBPs

1. 1 - (need to be invited to follow-up TCon)

1. 2 - Cortical thickness analysis - testing EM segmenter to their data. They estimated parameters and tested during the week. The goal now is to compare ITK-MS and EM segment module to see how these two tools compare for cortical thickness. They are reviewing the tools using the same patient data.

1. 3 - (Mark Scully) Legion segmentation using EM segmenter and other options - worked with Brad using 2 channels of data. Flare as 3rd channel caused problems. Desired to have T1/T2/Flair together as three channel dataset. Marcel is going to deliver his segmentation algorithm software to them to compare results.

1. 4 - Robotic Prostate Interventions - (David Gobbi) Working on transrectal biopsy module for Slicer. They had a previous module for transcranial biopsies. One of the most exciting developments was a new prototol "open IGT-Link" which will replace navitrack inside Slicer. Image transfer is working over this protocol. A simulator is being developed for the robot. A few VTK bugs may have been discovered during this process, but it isn't on the top priority list right now.

1. 5 - Prostate Cancer - Wrote new ITK filter that has been submitted to the Sandbox. They are looking at spherical wavelets for shape segmentation. The wiki page will be updated soon.

2008-01-31

Attendees: Jim, Steve, Stephen, Wendy, Xiaodong, Nicole, Katie, Ron

• Project week follow-up
  • Half of tcon on Feb 7
  • Half of tcon on Feb 14
• Registration
  • Viola-Wells optimizations need to be enabled
  • Stephen needs to check-in and publish recent changes
  • Stephen needs to update the wiki
  • Luis continues to make optimizations (main focus is memory reduction)
• BatchMake
  • Grid Wizard - meeting on Monday
  • Integration with Slicer delivered via getbuildtest2
• New webpages
  • http://slicer.org
  • Uses wiki-to-web
  • Feel free to edit/improve
• Slicer-specific wiki
  • Migrating appropriate info from Na-mic to slicer
  • Hold off on adding to Slicer-wiki until notified
    • Continue using Na-mic wiki
• New Nitrc project
  • Jim Miller is leading
  • "Slicer3 plug-in examples" project
  • http://nitrc.org - search for slicer3
    • Includes demo/stub for ITK filtering data, etc.
  • Collection associated with an ITK course being taught
  • Requires CVS version of ITK
  • Works with Slicer build and Slicer install
  • Steve P is the liaison with NITRC
• Slicer tutorial at UNC, April 14th
  • Working with UNC's BRIC (http://www.bric.unc.edu)
  • Sonja, Randy, Martin, Stephen
• User-level Slicer training - Feb 20 at BWH
  • 1249 Boyleston
  • Release version of Slicer3

2008-01-24

Attendees: Jim, Steve, Wendy, Xiaodong, Nicole, Katie, Alex, Luis, Ron, Will

• Project week follow-up (Next week?)
  • Will will send email invitations for first half of projects for next week's tcon
• Loadable modules
  • Alex and Terry are rearranging Slicer3.cxx to support loadable modules
  • Separate branch for built-in module discovery process
  • Sebastien is working on build issues for modules whose code is outside Slicer3
• GenerateCLP - Thanks Hans for changes to support building modules
  • Hans is running a class this semester where the students will build Slicer CLI modules.
  • Jim is working on an ExampleModule for people to use as a template for building modules outside of Slicer3. Perhaps NITRC.
• XML library
  • What to do with libaries that are too big to include in the source directory?
• AHM 2009, Jan 5-9, 2009
• Summer Project Week, Jun 23-27, 2008
• New server architecture for wiki, svn, publication database

2008-01-17

Attendees: Jim, Katie, Sebastien, Stephen, Luis, Steve, Wendy, Will

• Luis and Bill Hoffman are making progress in making ITK installation relocatable. This is needed to finish the work on building plugins from an installation.
• What's in VTK 5.2?
  • Infovis - Tables, Graphs, Views, IO
  • Refinements to WWidgets. Client/Server connections within the widgets. Event translation. New widgets (text, caption, affine, checkerboard, rectilinear wipe, annotation, key frame, contour, measurement, point/placer, plot)
  • Build now? Or wait until 5.2 released?
  • Repository freeze in March
  • Release on April 1, 2008
• ITK release
  • Patches to ITK 3.4
    • Nine component/six component tensor conversion in IO has been patched to ITK 3.4
  • 1/19-2/1 moving contributions on Insight Journal for ITK 3.6
  • Move items from Review directory to main tree (QuadMesh, TransformIO) for ITK 3.6
  • Freeze repository 2/29 for ITK 3.6
  • Slicer3 will need to build against the Review directory.
• CMake release
  • Version 2.6 on the horizon - release candidate in 3 weeks.
• Tcl/Tk 8.5
  • Sebastien has a Windows build
  • Steve will try it out
  • Wait to switch to 8.5 until we have a good reason
• Loadable modules
  • Sebastien - working on CMake issues on building modules as loadable modules
  • Terry - working on loading modules and reworking Slicer3.cxx
• Event Broker
• DWI DICOM as part of the Load Volume. Xiaodong is working on it.
• ITKFactories directory in build and installs to hold ImageIO plugin libraries. Should increase the speed of executable plugins on the Mac.
• OpenIGTLink
  • Protocol on the wiki (message format)
  • Put code in Sandbox, SourceForge, NITRC, Google Code???
• Will schedule a time to go over the Project Week results

2008-01-10

No tcon due to AHM

2008-01-03

• Attendees: Jim, Steve, Will, Brad Davis
• Topics:
  • Jim and Will talked about leading the Monday and Friday sessions, and who would do what.
  • We are going to send out reminders to the project leads to ensure that their project descriptions are up to date
  • We discussed the software process project to make sure that we have a chance to address the Slicer build process, dashboards, etc.
  • We decided not to hold the project wrap-up presentation at AHM; we will do that later at subsequent TCons. (We decided that we needed the time to actually work. We are concerned that we are starting to see too many break-outs and not enough time to work.)
  • We keenly missed Tina and hope that she and her family are doing well.