Engineering:TCON 2010
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2010-05-06
Attendees: Jim, Steve, Curt, Tina, Xiaodong, Nicole, Vince, Harini, Dominik, Ron
Agenda:
- http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2010_Summer_Project_Week
- Supplemental Information needed: latest software releases
- Slicer 3.6
- ITK 3.18 (fixing DICOM parsing)
- VTK 5.6 (integration of GPU ray casting)
- XNAT 1.4 (webservices API)
2010-04-27
Attendees: Jim, Tina, Xiadong, Steve, Nicole, Ron, Wendy, Dan, Katie
Agenda:
- Please note that there will be two project-week specific tcons:
- May 13th - Sonia will lead the tutorial contest rules+discussion (http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Summer_2010_Tutorial_Contest)
- May 27th -- Junichi will lead OpenIGTLink discussion
- Discussion of help text of command line modules.
- Review of slicer3.6 release plans and bug tracker.
2010-04-22
Attendees: Wendy, Nicole, Steve, Sonia, Ron, Dan, Dominik, Adam, J2, Jean-Christophe.
Agenda:
- QT tutorials/discussion with Adam Weinrich, Nokia.
- Review of Slicer tutorial structure (Sonia)
- Adam works on strategic accounts (advanced development for new applications) and on university outreach to encourage creation of new developers
- Kitware is a key account for Nokia
- Review of current state of Qt with Slicer (Steve, Jc, Julien)
- Best to stick with first hands on session on Monday afternoon (Adam).
- Topics to cover:
- Adam: Motivation (examples of other applications), Designer, available widgets, signals&slots, coding style, implicit representation
- J2/Jc: how to make a simple module, working with the rest of the slicer application (Tuesday afternoon).
- Qt Q&A lunch on Tuesday. Adam will check with Boston-based Qt developer group about attending.
- TODO: get a lecture hall for Monday afternoon? Tina will check with Donna.
- Note: May 27th is the OpenIGTLink discussion, led by Junichi Tokuda.
2010-04-15
Attendees: Xiadong, Harini, Tina, Steve, Dan Marcus, Vince, Ron, Dominik, Luis, Dave P, Katie, Alex Z, Marco
Agenda:
- Project Week Kickoff Call for Engineering
- 2010_Summer_Project_Week
- Start listing Engineering Projects
- Project Page Template: Add Delivery Mechanism (Extension-cmdline or loadable, Built-in)
- Ideas for handling Project Week Planning/calls
2010-04-08
Attendees: Jim, Dan, Nicole, Tina, Wendy, Ron, Stephen Aylward
Agenda:
- Slicer Training Course in Iowa city tomorrow.
- Added breakout sessions/talks for the project week
2010-04-01
Attendees: Curt, Nicole, Katie, Wendy, Tina, Dominik, Vince, Steve, Dan Marcus, Luis
- Slicer 3.6 Feature freeze
- Project Week breakout session: QT, ITK, git,...
2010-03-25
Attendees: wendy, nicole, dominik, vince, tina, jim, dave, luis, katie, steve, ron, xiaodong, stephen, jj, jc, j2
- MIDAS Feedback from John M./Tina
- Slicer 3.6
- Documentation
- testing and code coverage
- VTK status
- Slicer 4.0
- Community process (Stephen Aylward)
- Superbuild status (Dave)
- qt status (Julien)
- Module acceptance process
- From Nitrc
- With Slicer
- Educating the community about the benefits of Qt (Steve Pieper)
- Community process (Stephen Aylward)
Notes
- Slicer Extensions
- Reuse Statistics functionalities from MIDAS to report on downloads from
- http://ext.slicer.org/ext/trunk/
- Building Slicer extensions and submit them to the Slicer Dashboard
- Where are they located ? (it is described in the .s3ext files:)
- Maybe build them only when their source code is actually modified ?
- Label extensions by a level of compliance with NAMIC practices ?
- E.g. Gold, Silver, Bronze,... Coal.
- Gold: have > 80% coverage, 0 Valgrind errors, documentation and tutorial
- Silver: have > 70% coverage, < 10 Valgrind errors, and tutorial
- Bronze: have > 60% coverage, < 50 Valgrind errors, and tutorial
- Coal: have < 10% coverage, > 1000 Valgrind errors, no documentation, no tutorial
- E.g. Gold, Silver, Bronze,... Coal.
- Web of trust
- Have gatekeepers who review the extension and label them accordingly.
- Define a Testing procedure for Slicer 4.0. (Check lists)
- Community Support
- Provide User Ratings (based on the Insight Journal / MIDAS functionality)
- Use current MIDAS C++ API to Upload/Download data.
- Create MIDAS Plugins to manage data / code for Slicer extensions
- Slicer Release 3.6
- VTK Release 5.6 : March 26th 2010
- Immediately after, switching Slicer to use VTK 5.6.
- Sorting out KWWidget issues on Windows 7 with VTK 5.6 (VTK CVS HEAD).
- Slicer Release 4.0
- Git: Conversion of CMake, VTK, Paraview
- Moving Slicer to Git ?
- ITK 4.0 will move to a clean Git repository (full reset of the history)
- Moving only Slicer modules that satisfy the Gold criteria.
- A2D2 Idea : port CLI modules to ITK 4.0
- Question about CLI modules in CTK for Slicer 4.0: Discovery process; making it cleaner by using Qt methods. But raise the concern of forcing a dependency on Qt (that not everybody may want).
- Have specific mechanisms of discovery based on : Python, Qt, C++.
- MRML Refactoring ?
- Jim suggests to add a dictionary-like organization to be able to query MRML nodes {by type,...}.
- Slicer Superbuild
- Dave reported on progress
- Dealing with patches that getbuildtest.tcl applies to the third party libraries.
- Difficulty of applying patches. Need for a multi-platform way of applying patches
- Hosting git repositories with the patched versions of the third party libraries.
- Use github ? create a "Slicer" user-account ?
- CMake-ifying Python source tree ?
- Dealing with patches that getbuildtest.tcl applies to the third party libraries.
- Dave reported on progress
- Testing Modules and Extensions
- Hosting them in MIDAS
- Setting up Dashboard configuration to test modules as Slicer sub-projects
- Some CDash/CTest work is needed.
- Currently, sub-projects must be run from a common CTest script (the same of the host project).
- Needs to manage dependencies between extensions. (this can be done today with an XML file on CDash).
- Testing Submission Grouping
- Grouping {configure/build/test} submissions by Library and / or subdirectory
- Using CMake for generating labels that can be used later for grouping
2010-03-18
Attendees: Andriy (ran out of the room before he could take notes) Nicole, Dominik Wendy, Steve, Stephen, Jim, Katie
- Andriy question about plots coming back from command line modules.
- Updated Download page
- Images have been added.
- Lesion data still missing.
- Tracking downloads of extensions
- Use publication database? We can ask Julien next week.
- (See http://ext.slicer.org/ext/ for current layout - look in the trunk directory).
- Jim could use this functionality for renewal proposal
- DICOM Discussion
- http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/DICOM:Database
- Drag and Drop image files?
- DICOM sorter (osirix is useful for this)
- Slicer3.6 release planning
- Next release of ITK (3.18) should be in a couple of weeks
- http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:3.6Release
2010-03-11
Attendees: Dan, Tina, Vince, Xiaodong, Wendy, Nicole, Katie, Kurt, Dominic, John
- Updated Download page
- Do we want to add images?
- Yes, please. And also to format this into a table. Thanks.
- Do we want to add images?
- XNAT Workshop (June 28-30)
- Include a NAMIC presentation? TBD
- http://nrg.wikispaces.com/2010+XNAT+Workshop
- OpenIGT and Medtronic Navigation
- Consider a joint grant to fund the development
- Ron can kill 18 birds with one stone.
2010-03-04
Attendees: jim, ron, nicole, vince, dan, katie, wendy, dominic, tina
- GetNodesByName leaking the collection from Tcl ( set foo [$::slicer3::MRMLScene GetNodesByName bar] )
- VTK GPU Mapper - Mac driver issue. But otherwise is working well with compositing. Dual 3D issue tabled for now.
- Store the Collapse of the SliceController in the Layout node?
- Should the layout of the modules (left verses right) be stored in the scene? Not for now.
- DICOM databases. See discussion on mailing list.
- DICOM Schemas. Jim tried searching for Osirix's schema. What about the XNAT schema? What about ClearCanvas?
- Extend Schemas for MRML, Project views, NRRD, VTK files, etc.
2010-02-25
Attendees: john, marco, dominik jim, steve, wendy, tina, nicole, ron, vince, dan, katie
- MIDAS handles - fixed
- GWE's RSE ("Record Set Explorer") version 0.6.1.alpha released:
- Slicer Release 3.6 Feature Freeze on April 1
- Japanese Slicer workshop in 2 weeks
- CTK workshop last week - went well
2010-02-18
Attendees: Jim, Steve, Wendy, Dan, Dominik, Katie, Nicole
- Discussion of whole body CT/MR data (Dan)
- Discussion of the "Spit Kidney"
- Dominik's registration case library data for download
- Discussion of download data for each module (like in ChangeTracker currently)
- Tutorials and Datasets
- Discussion of slicer 3.6 release schedule.
2010-02-11
Attendees: Jim, Katie, Curt, Casey, Tina, Xiaodong, Steve, Wendy, Dan, John, Dominik, Nicole
Agenda:
- NA-MIC data migration is complete and the Downloads page has been brought out to the Wiki sidebar (http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Downloads)
- Feedback is requested on the sidebar
- Feedback is requested on the Downloads page
- Feature request to track the downloads like it is done on the publication database. (Julien reports it is already available to administrators).
- Curt will work with John to add Meshing Module tutorial.
- Dominik will try putting some data in midas to see how much context can be added.
- John will check with Marek about Harvard data that had been on BIRN.
- Review of DBP2 webpages, which need updating
- Ron has contacted the parties directly
- Dan: XNAT workshop this summer (possibly June 28, 29, 30 in St. Louis)?
- Discussion of entry behavior on
- New Volume features from Xiaodong for viewing image sets in a directory (cool!)
2010-02-04
Attendees: Xiaodong, Tina, Casey, John, Dan, Vince, Stephen, Nicole
Agenda:
DBP Tutorials should be listed at the top. Software should point to Slicer and the NA-MIC Kit. Data hosting is available on XNAT and Midas.
2010-01-28
Attendees: Xiaodong, Tina, John M, Katie, Nicole, Dominik, Vince, Casey
Agenda
- data update (john m): Discussion of Data & Tutorials on the following page. Discussion of where to put the data (XNAT or Midas).
- example downloadable resources page: http://www.ncigt.org/pages/Downloads
- Iowa Data
- Visible Human Datasets https://mri.radiology.uiowa.edu//visible_human_datasets.html
- Project Sikuli from CSAIL
- Scripted UI interaction -- GUI testing http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/
2010-01-21
Attendees: Jim, Katie, Nicole, Wendy, Curt, Ron, Dominic, Steve, Dan
- Update wiki pages in preparation for the review of the NA-MIC renewal
2010-01-14
Attendees: Katie Ben Casey Yin Tina Vince Jim Satra Nicole Lauren Hiro Fernando Chris Brian Dominik Ron
- Discussion of parallel processing using ipython for use with NA-MIC CT Colonography collaboration project. (confirmed).
- As a follow up people may be interested in the Enthought webinar on this topic 3pm eastern on Jan 22, 2010.
- Need real time processing speed. 10 fps for volume rendering. 5 minutes of image processing (down from 30 minutes)
- 512x512x1000 voxels
- GPU solutions or ipython solutions
- Python package for accessing to Slicer internals in a headless mode, i.e. run Slicer internals from Python instead of running Python from within Slicer
- iPython distinct from MPI (meet different needs)
- Microsoft interest in iPython
- Jim fell on the sword to take minutes
- Follow up information from Fernando about the new version of ipython in development:
- the docs for the in-testing ipython are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/bzr.r1321/
- and downloads in various formats are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/
- Note: the files with .bzr.r1321 in the names are the relevant ones for today's call, NOT the 'nightly' ones.