Slicer:Developer Meetings:20050607

Slicer Developers Meeting

June 7, 2005, 2-4pm, at 1249 Boylston St., second floor demo room.

Topic: NA-MIC Programming Week: Slicer 3.0

Present: Steve Pieper, Mike Halle, Alex Yarmarkovich, Katie Hayes, Huy Nguyen, Haiying Liu, Nicole Aucoin, Eigil Samset

• Dartmouth end users workshop went well, slicer2.5 didn't crash for the presenters, though some of the students got into bad states. Some worked on Macintosh machines with 512Mb of RAM
• Programming week
  • registration fee - $75 to MIT by Jun 20, lab will pay
  • it should be a forum to bring up issues in ITK and VTK that need to be addressed
    • fast cell picking would be good for slicer users
  • various projects are outlined here
    • registration
    • ITKu - script ITK access for quick prototyping
    • Nrrd ITK IO
    • DTMRI - lauren will be putting in regression tests, file formats for tracts (tubes vs. lines)
    • New loni pipeline - namic engineering list post talks about new release available very soon
  • Slicer3 project was mostly covered in this meeting
    • kwwidgets
      • define module api
      • backwards compatibility
      • updates to wrapping parser, encapsulate functions at c++ level
      • syntax same as vtk
      • compare fltk (LGPL), Qt (GPL, to create a non-GPL code using Qt each developer needs a paid license), incrWidgets, tk, kwwidgets, wxwidgets etc
      • separation between interface and implementation
      • quantify improvement over current UI
    • services, ie scene descr (mrml)
    • networking pipelines
    • added notes to feature requests here Back to Meetings]