OpenIGTLink/Discussion

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Project Week 2008 @ MIT

• The main page for this project is 2008_Summer_Project_Week

Agenda

• Open IGT Link -- new requirement
  • requirements for new software
    • BrainLab VVLink
    • Prostate
    • Neuro

• Slicer 3 Open IGT Link -- What is next?
  • Outgoing data via MRML
  • GUI Interface Design
  • API Design to use OpenIGTLink module from other modules

Open questions

1. What if the application receives hundreds of "position" packets?
   Should we have packet types?
   -keep only the last (position)
   - all important (command)
   - high priority (emergency)
   
2. Priority
3. Authentication (other than Unique Name) -- SSL
4. Compression?
5. Duplicate messages

Other Resources

• BioImage Suite VVLink Tool (uses TCL/TK object streaming)
• Meetings concerning Open IGT Link