2008 Engineering review at Utah

Will, Ross, and Guido will consult with other people and schedule the event.

The date is now set at: March 24-26, 2008.

Begin: Morning of Monday, March 24. End: Noon on Wednesday, March 26.

Suggested Hotel: Hotel Monaco.

Engineering Attendees: Jim Miller, Xiaodong Tao, Steve Pieper, Will Schroeder, Marco Ruiz

Proposed discussion items:

• DTI processing modules/pipeline
  • Infrastructure for DWI/DTI data types
    • How to handle coordinate frames
  • Preprocessing pipeline for DWI->DTI->analysis
    • Filtering
    • Registration
    • Estimation
    • White mater mask
    • User interfaces/interaction
  • Analysis of DTI data
    • Tractography
    • Atlases
    • Derived quantities
    • Hypothesis testing

• Shape analysis pipeline (Should Martin S. be here?)
  • How to organize data
  • How to break pipeline in to steps
    • Segmentation, preprocessing, parameterization, visualization
  • How to accommodate new modules/techniques

• The general problem of registration and atlases
  • Status of spline-based methods
  • Intertability
  • How to incorporate registration/atlases/atlas building in to slicer3

• General architecture issues
  • How to provide coherent user interfaces for specific tasks
    • Pipelines for specific data or analyses
    • E.g. see Siemens workstation software with modules/pages
  • Command-line vs built in modules
    • Policies for supporting one versus the other