EngineeringRetreat2010/Isomics

Isomics Overall Goals for namic years 7-10:

• Support DBPs and collaborations

• "Finish" slicer4 Core
  • Fast, usable, base for extension development
  • Easily extended (C++, Python, WebKit/JavaScript)
    • Logical extension workflow interfaces
    • Bundles of extensions to support topic areas
  • Flexible data I/O and solid MRML representation
  • Customized visualization and annotation for medical imaging
    • longitudinal, cross-subject, multi-modal, interactive...
    • clean interfaces

• Coding goals
  • Move everything non-core to extensions
  • Have the Core be well documented, tested, modular, etc...
  • Everything script accessible for extension and debugging
  • Put much of the general purpose code in CTK
  • Develop topic branches to fix toolkits rather than workarounds in slicer code
  • Improve communication among distributed developer team (how?)
  • State of the Art Look and Feel
    • GPU rendering and analysis
    • Publication quality rendering
    • Nice looking, smooth interaction

• Strong DICOM support
  • dcmtk networking (track ITKv4)
  • local storage that represents image acquisition (Not an abstract image type that throws away all the metadata - rather a rich representation that is perhaps only partly specified for non-dicom types.).
  • ctkDICOM GUI
  • DICOM RT I/O