Engineering:TCON 05 26 2005

Agenda

• Welcome back to Bill Lorensen
• Administrivia ( Bill, et. al. )
• Updates to programming week projects (Tina, Jim, Xiaodong,...)
• Data management system for population studies ( Dan, Jim )
• Pipeline has a new build v3.0.alpha3.3
  • mike is unavailable to attend the tcon today,

Attendees

• Bill Lorensen
• Dan Blezek
• Jim Miller
• Rick Avila
• Luis Ibanez
• Andy Cedilnik
• Jason Gerk
• Jagadeeswaran Rajendiran (Jags)

Minutes

• Update by Jim on the project with Martin Styner at UNC for modeling populations of shapes .
  • Find an object among a set.
  • Decompose an object shaphe on sub-parts.
  • Identify when there are differences that are statistically significant.
  • Proposed to implement a set of command line tools. Using the LONI pipeline for this purpose.
    • How to involve DataBase management ?
    • Facilitates to perform nightly regression testing on real data.
• LONI Pipeline new release
  • Jim reported some problems while running this new version.
  • Jim will get help from the LONI team.
• Update by Andy on CVS access to ITK
  • New rules and mechanisms for maintaining the list of developers with names and emails.
  • New password for rolling up the ITK Dashboard.
• Book recomendations from GE
  • "The world is flat"
  • The fourth chapter of this book talks about Open Source (in good terms).
  • At Amazon
• ITK update
  • adding support for images of pixel type std::complex<>
  • now supporting reading and writing of complex images.