AHM2010:NA-MIC Kit Update

Goals

Information about NA-MIC Kit component developments over the past year so that developers will have an idea of what new features are available for their use.

ITK

• Label image classes
• QuadEdgeMesh spherical registration
  • Rigid
  • Deformable (Diffeomorphic Demons)
• Region based Level Sets
• Pixel coordinates consistency
• Multi-threaded registration framework
  • multi-threaded metrics
  • thread-safe transforms

VTK

• vtkWidgets

GWE

• Interactive experiments' results browser.
• CSV and generated commands dumps and preview.
• Support for LSF and Lava cluster DRMs.
• Ability to override auto-discovered DRMs with configured ones.
• Ability to override default database installation location.
• Function to extract experiments' parameters from text files.
• Operations to delete, pause and resume experiments.
• Recommended to watch: 5 minutes demo video.

BatchMake

• Improvement in the integration of grid computing using condor.
• Semi-Automatic conversion of Slicer modules for batch processing
• Parameter exploration is now possible
• Execution of algorithms are faster

CMake/CPack/CTest/CDash

• parallel ctest (ctest -j)
• cpack
• conversion to cmake in-progress
• linkage between CTest and MIDAS in progress
  • Host large datasets for algorithm validation and performance testing
    • Demonstrated using RegisterImages

3D Slicer

• List of new modules and features (TBD)
• 3.4/3.4.1 release information
• Extension Architecture and Extension Modules
• ARRA Supplement Projects
• Qt Port (lead in to Julien's 8:30 session)
  • Co-existence of KWWidgets and Qt
  • Creation of a subset of the needed Qt widgets
  • Full port in Qt of first modules
  • Design of the core architecture in Qt (plugin mechanism, Command line modules, widget libraries...)
  • Tutorials for the slicer developer community to port modules
  • Gallery and Tutorials
• More info on the Slicer wiki News Page
• multi-camera view in Slicer (endoscopy application)

Other Topics

• Common Toolkit