Engineering:September 12, 2007

Goals

Catch up on latest developments, set priorities, identify issues. Also brainstorm on competitive renewal.

Plan

One day in Clifton Park, 10am to 4pm.

Boston people can plan for one (somewhat long) day or stay over.

Topics

review of the needs of the DBPs

• UNC
• JHU/Queens
• MIND
• Harvard

Slicer3 release

• what are roadblocks?
  • crashes?
  • critical functionality?

Documentation

• NAMIC Kit Overview (as requested by NIH)
• Practical Software Process

kwwidgets

• gui tracing for macros and replay (and for creating tests)?
• file browser multithreading
• access to events from scripting languages
• "testing mode"
  • avoid the confirmation dialog on exit
  • avoid being influenced by the user's registry
  • avoid polluting the user's registry

Interactions

• 3D Widgets
• Level-of-detail?
• Oblique slice plane specifier?
• Disambiguating "picking" with mouse

The "next" EM Segmenter

• Registration (rigid and non-rigid; modules to create statistical atlases)
• DTI (visualize; advanced queries; rendering performance, Runge-Kutta, etc.)
• Interactive editing

command line modules

• passing mrml scenes back and forth

BatchMake interface

• To MIDAS and other database repositories

cpack

• rpm, deb
• na-mic kit available via standard linux distribution sites?

Competitive Renewal

• where do we want to be 7 years from now?
• what is the state of medical image computing likely to be?
• what is the state of computing likely to be?

wiki 2 web and download site

• perl script translation
• counting downloads
• integrated license agreement

Attendees

Confirmed (please add your name so we can keep count to estimate room size etc):

• Steve, Ron, Nicole, Katie, Will, Dan, Jim