AHM2010:NA-MIC Kit Update

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

• Label image classes
• QuadEdgeMesh spherical registration
  • Rigid
  • Deformable (Diffeomorphic Demons)
• Region based Level Sets
• Pixel coordinates consistency
• Multi-threaded registration framework
  • multi-threaded metrics
  • thread-safe transforms

VTK

• vtkWidgets
• multi-camera view in Slicer (endoscopy application)

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.

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)
• 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)
• More info on the Slicer wiki News Page

Other Topics

• Common Toolkit