2008 Engineering review at Utah

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The date is now set at: March 24-26, 2008. Begin: Morning of Monday, March 24. End: Noon on Wednesday, March 26.

Suggested Hotel: Hotel Monaco.

Engineering Attendees: Jim Miller, Xiaodong Tao, Steve Pieper, Will Schroeder, Marco Ruiz (Full list of attendees in the end of page)

  • Slicer3 Plugins Presentation [ppt]

Proposed discussion items:

Discussion of the 3 major Utah projects DTI Analysis, Shape Analysis, Segmentation including Pathology

Draft Schedule

  • Monday 24
    • 12pm to 1.30pm: Lunch / Possibility to attend SCI distinguished lecture by Andy van Dam titled When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard? [1]
  • Tuesday 25
    • Noon to 1.30pm: Lunch / SCI presentation by Will Schroeder
  • Wednesday 26

Project-specific details to be discussed

  • DTI processing modules/pipeline
    • Infrastructure for DWI/DTI data types
      • How to handle coordinate frames
    • Preprocessing pipeline for DWI->DTI->analysis
      • Filtering
      • Registration
      • Estimation
      • White mater mask
      • User interfaces/interaction
    • Analysis of DTI data
      • Tractography
      • Atlases
      • Derived quantities
      • Hypothesis testing
  • Shape analysis pipeline
    • How to organize data
    • How to break pipeline in to steps
      • Segmentation, preprocessing, parameterization, visualization
    • How to accommodate new modules/techniques
  • The general problem of registration and atlases
    • Status of spline-based methods
    • Intertability
    • How to incorporate registration/atlases/atlas building in to slicer3
  • General architecture issues
    • How to provide coherent user interfaces for specific tasks
      • Pipelines for specific data or analyses
      • E.g. see Siemens workstation software with modules/pages
    • Command-line vs built in modules
      • Policies for supporting one versus the other
  • Attendees
    • Ross Whitaker
    • Tom Fletcher
    • Josh Cates
    • Guido Gerig
    • Marcel Prastawa
    • Sylvain Gouttard
    • Casey Goodlett
    • C-F Westin
    • Will Schroeder
    • Steve Pieper
    • Jim Miller
    • Xiaodong Tao
    • Marco Ruiz