Engineering:2005 Programming Week Results

Summary

The first NA-MIC Programming Week was successfully concluded on June 30, 2005 at MIT. It recorded 56 attendees, 38 of whom were NA-MIC participants and 18 were collaborators. During the project event, 22 projects were actively pursued by the participants

Consolidated Summary Slides (ppt) for Programming Week

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