Slicer:Developer Meetings:20050315

Slicer Developers Meeting

March 15, 2005, 2-3pm, at 1249 Boylston St., second floor demo room.

Topic: Recap of the BIRN meeting, building on Windows

Present: Sylvain Bouix, Katie Hayes, Mike Halle, Jonathan Sacks, Steve Pieper, Nicole Aucoin, Katharina Quintus, Wendy Plesniak, Sonia Pujol

• Training:
  • Toronto training session moved to Dartmouth, May 26&27, Sonia will do user training at the next one at MGH for Bruce Fischl and Randy Gollub, then Randy will be doing them
  • Sonia looked at fmri tutorial, java applicatin, from matlab version - all client server, negates 100Gb download, web page to step you through
  • for MGH tutorial, more content on vtk FSRs
  • Slicer tutorial
    • was run on Mac power books for a group of Ob/Gyns
    • Apple provided the power books
    • Mike has key drive with X11, slicer and a shell script: rename file .command so can double click it and it will run in a terminal for easy installation on a Mac
• Lab to go to Macintosh workstations running OSX? Linux? We need to test build speeds, interactions with editing, benchmark vtkAG, EMSegment
• Building with Microsoft Visual Studio 7.1
  • vtkMinHeap.h - windows check in for MSVC 6
  • Karl has used #define so he can use French terms
  • also found ENDFOR defined as }
  • need to get these cleaned up
  • Sonia's version needs to work with 2.4 release code for training, but for development use she can use the head of the cvs tree
• Transform volume - Alex Guimond? checked in changes yesterday, works with hierarchical transform applications
• Freesurfer is going open source
• Qball in DTMRI under the ODF tab
• lsdi recon script - is only local, not working
• Release 2.5
  • Need ITK with the Nrrd reader with spacing
  • Need VTK with grid transform, and tcl wrapping around C exceptions
  • Get both repositories tagged with Slicer-2-5
  • Freeze check ins on the head until we stabilize it, then branch.
  • Use May 26th as our goal?
  • Sylvain is going to Portugal to install slicer April 25. Needs EM Segment, vtkAG, transform volume. Needs a windows binary.
  • MICCAI deadline is April 11
  • Freeze April 16-21, then branch
  • FMRI
    • moving from gsl to ITK's vnl, but that's longer term
    • checking in changes before the fBIRN meeting (end of March)
  • LGPL in level sets
    • include the cxx files in tarup.tcl?
    • module writer is responsible for meeting licensing requirements
• MBirn white matter atlases - Duke and CNI are providing them to the BIRN community DTI Morphometry Projects]
• Dave Kennedy - freesurfer cortical parcellation to define central and radiant white matter, labels white matter from landmarks automatically

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