Engineering:2005 Programming Week Results

Summary

The first NA-MIC Programming Week was successfully concluded on July 1, 2005 at MIT. It recorded 44 attendees who worked actively on 15 projects. A consolidated summary of all projects is available here as a ppt.

Link to actual Programming Week Event, MIT Summer, 2005

Submissions to Insight Journal

1. A Quantitative DTI Fiber Tract Analysis Suite
2. Knowledge-Based Segmentation of Brain MRI Scans Using the Insight Toolkit
3. Tetrahedral mesh generation for medical imaging
4. Comparison of Salient Point Detection Methods for 3D Medical Images

One-Slide Summary from Programming Week Projects

Applications

1. Non Rigid EPI Registration Powerpoint: Source in Sandbox
2. Quantitative Fiber Tract Analysis Powerpoint: Source in Sandbox, some code incorporated into FiberViewer
3. Rule-based DLPFC Segmentation Powerpoint: Source in Sandbox

Algorithms/Algorithm Infrastructure

1. 3D Adaptive Tetrahedral Mesh Generation in ITK: Source in sandbox
2. 2D/3D Point-Landmark Detection
3. Shape Description: Source code in sandbox, submission to insight journal soon, some visualization code incorporated back into SOViewer
4. Shape Analysis: Not yet in coding stage
5. Bayesian Segmentation: Source in ITK CVS repository and NAMIC SandBox
6. Flux Diffusion

Software Infrastructure

1. ITKu| Software Infrastructure: ITKu: Source in sourceforge teem repository (itku module: cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/teem co itku)
2. Software Infrastructure: NRRD IO
3. Software Infrastructure: Slicer DTMRI Nightly Testing
4. Software Infrastructure: LONI Pipeline Integration of UNC Shape Analysis Pipeline: LONI example pipelines in Sandbox
5. Software Infrastructure: Large Scale Algorithm Job Submission via Condor
6. Slicer 3.0 Architecture Kickoff

Additional NA-MIC Engineering Interactions / Benefits

• Registration
  • Linear and Non-Linear vtkITK Registration Modules Now Available in Slicer
• I/O
  • vtkITK based Generic Readers in Slicer
  • vtkNRRDReader handles measurement frames, space directions, gradients for DWI
• fMRI
  • ITK Statistics framework underway
• Editor
  • Collaboration with Simbios NCBC at Stanford to adapt Slicer Editor for Musculoskeletal MRI