2007 Project Half Week

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Results

Results of this event will be summarized here after it is completed.

Logistics

Dates: January 10 & 12, 2007 (There will be no project-week related events scheduled for Thursday, January 11th, the day of the AHM.)

Registration Fee: Registration fee is $215 for this event, and includes registration for the NA-MIC AHM. Separate registration, either for the AHM, or the project event are not available. To register and reserve hotel rooms, please follow this link.

Attendee List: After you complete registration, please add your name to this list if you intend to participate in the project activities Registered Attendee List.

Background and Preparation

We continue to call this event "Project Week" or "Project Half Week", depending on how its duration, rather than by its original name of "Programming Week" to reflect the activity during the event - along with programming, a fair amount of algorithm design, and clinical application brainstorming also takes places and the name change reflects the broader scope of the event. What does this means for participants: if you are participating in a NA-MIC project or collaboration by providing algorithmic or clinical input, you are very welcome to attend. As always, participation is entirely voluntary.

Goals

The main goal of this week is to move forward the deliverables of NA-MIC. All NA-MIC participants and their collaborators are welcome.

• Members of all cores are welcome. This event involves programming, algorithm design, and clinical application development/testing.
• The event is open to people outside NA-MIC, subject to availability.
• You do need to be actively working on a NA-MIC related project in order to make this investment worthwhile for everyone.
• Participation in this event is voluntary -- if you don't think this will help you move forward in your work, there is no obligation to attend.
• Ideal candidates are those who want to contribute to the NA-MIC Kit, and those who can help make it happen.
• This is not an introduction to the components of the NA-MIC Kit.
• Submit any projects that you would like to work on during this week, and what type of help you might need for it.

How this event works?

Please note that:

• Everyone should bring a laptop. We will have three or four projectors.
• About half the time will be spent working on projects and the other half in project related discussions.

Preparation for the workshop

1. Please make sure that you are on the na-mic-programming-week mailing list
2. December 7: Kickoff TCON
3. December 14: Create a Wiki page per project (the participants must do this, hopefully jointly)
4. December 14: TCON#2 to discuss projects and verify teams
5. December: Create a directory for each project on the NAMIC Sandbox (Andy)
   1. Commit on each sandbox directory the code examples/snippets that represent our first guesses of appropriate methods. (Luis and Steve will help with this, as needed)
   2. Gather test images in any of the Data sharing resources we have (e.g. the BIRN). These ones don't have to be many. At least three different cases, so we can get an idea of the modality-specific characteristics of these images. Put the IDs of these data sets on the wiki page. (the participants must do this.)
   3. Setup nightly tests on a separate Dashboard, where we will run the methods that we are experimenting with. The test should post result images and computation time. (Andy)
6. January 4, 2007: TCON#3 last preparation tcon
7. By January 9th: Complete the top half of this powerpoint template for each project. Upload and link to the right place.
8. Please note that by the time we get to the project event, we should be trying to close off a project milestone rather than starting to work on one...

A History in Wiki Links

A history of all the programming/project events in NA-MIC is available by following this link.

Projects

This is a list of projects carried out at the last project week. If you would like to continue these projects, please do so but add a new 4-block PPT. If you will not be working on a project in this list, please remove it from here. Also, if you are working on a new project, please add it to the list.

Structural Analysis

1. ITK Spherical Wavelet Transform Filter (Xavier Le Faucheur, GT, Delphine Nain, GT, John Melonakos GT/GE, Jim Miller GE, Luis Ibanez, Kitware): 4-block PPT 2006
2. ITK statistical analysis using non-parametric permutation analysis and false discovery rate (Martin Styner, UNC): 4 block PPT 2006
3. Local curvature based correspondence in ITK (Ipek Oguz, Martin Styner, UNC): 4 block PPT 2006
4. Shape analysis of female SPD dataset (Jim Levitt, PNL, Marc Niethammer, PNL, Sylvain Bouix, PNL, Martin Styner, UNC): 4-block PPT 2006
5. Mesh Untangling (Gheorghe Postelnicu, MGH, Bill Lorensen GE): 4 block PPT 2006
6. MR Histology Registration (Gheorghe Postelnicu MGH, Bill Lorensen GE): 4 block PPT 2006

Diffusion Image Analysis

1. ITK DTI Image Processing Modules (Casey Goodlett UNC, Tom Fletcher Utah, Bill Lorensen GE, John Melonakos GT/GE): 4-block PPT 2006
2. Fiber Tools / Slicer 3 Integration (Casey Goodlett UNC, Bill Lorensen GE): 4-block PPT 2006
3. Stochastic Fiber Tracing Applications (C-F Westin, Marek Kubicki, Raul San-Jose, AW de Vries, All LMI): 4-block PPT 2006
4. Slicer Fiber (Model) Labeling Interface (Lauren O'Donnell MIT, Marek Kubicki BWH) : 4-block PPT 2006

FMRI Image Analysis

1. Conformal Flattening in ITK(Yi Gao GT, John Melonakos GT/GE, Jim Miller GE, Luis Ibanez Kitware, Marc Niethammer BWH): 4-block PPT 2006
2. Spatial Regularization in fMRI Analysis(Wanmei Ou, Polina Golland, Sandy Wells, and Carsten) 4-block PPT 2006

NA-MIC Kit

1. Slicer3 Interface (Wendy Plesniak, Sebastien Barre, Steve Pieper, Mathieu Malaterre, Randy Gollub, Michael Halle), 4-block PPT 2006
2. Migrating Slicer2.x Modules to Slicer3 (Nicole Aucoin, Mathieu Malaterre, Katie Hayes, Bill Lorensen): 4-block PPT 2006
3. Slicer3 Packaging (Andy Cedilnik, Steve Pieper) 4-block PPT 2006
4. Slicer3 Grid Integration (Jeff Grethe, Brendan Faherty, Steve Pieper, Katie Hayes), 4-block PPT 2006
5. Slicer3 Pipeline Integration (Jagadeeswaran Rajendiran, Martin Styner, Steve Pieper), 4 block PPT 2006
6. 2006 Project MGH File Format Converter(Gheorghe Postelnicu, Bill Lorensen) 4-block PPT 2006
7. Volumetric Meshing (Kiran Shivanna, Vincent Magnotta, Nicole Grosland):4-block PPT 2006
8. Dicom Query/Retrieve (Eduardo Suárez, Rafael Nebot, Steve Pieper, Jim Miller):4-block PPT 2006
9. A Translation Station for Imaging (Pat Mongkolwat, Alex Kogan, Tom Lechner, Steve Pieper, Wendy Plesniak):4-block PPT 2006
10. Converting vtkFMRIEngine and vtkMRAblation to Slicer3 modules (Noby Hata, Haiying Liu, Steve Pieper, Jim Miller): 4-block ppt 2006

NA-MIC Kit Support for Non-Medical Data

1. ITK IO support for reading astronomy data and coordinates from FITS files (Douglas Alan IIC, Michael Halle BWH/IIC, Luis Ibanez Kitware) 4-block PPT 2006