OpenIGTLink/Discussion

<< OpenIGTLink

Requests, TODOs

• [IGTL]Broadcasting (The Open IGT Link Library)
• [Slicer]Fix problem in transform matrix

Project Week 2008 @ MIT

• The main page for this project is 2008_Summer_Project_Week

Attendee

• Junichi Tokuda
• Haiying Liu

Agenda

Open IGT Link -- new requirements

• requirements for new software
  • BrainLab VVLink
  • Prostate
  • Neuro

Slicer 3 Open IGT Link Module -- What is next?

• Outgoing data via MRML
• GUI Interface Design
• API Design to use OpenIGTLink module from other modules

New commands

Discussion page about new commands based on version 1 of OpenIGTLink. It is not clear yet, if (parts of) these commands are integrated to a the next official interface version.

Open questions

1. What if the application receives hundreds of "position" packets?
   Should we have packet types?
   -keep only the last (position)
   - all important (command)
   - high priority (emergency)
   
2. Priority
3. Authentication (other than Unique Name) -- SSL
4. Compression?
5. Duplicate messages
6. What about the check of the header ?? -- by Dr. Gregory Fischer @ WPI

Other Resources

• BioImage Suite VVLink Tool (uses TCL/TK object streaming)
• Meetings concerning Open IGT Link