Announcement

From IGSTK

One Year Project Review Board Meeting and ITK Course at Georgetown

Kevin Cleary Updated 2 November 2005

The project review and board meeting is fast approaching. The schedule is:

• November 8 and 9 (Tues/Wed): ITK course at Georgetown
• November 10 and 11 (Thurs/Fri): board meeting and follow-up

Those participating in the course (Luis, Andinet, Julien) should plan to fly in by Monday night. Those participating in the board meeting and follow-up (above plus Kevin Gary, Stephen, David, and Rick) should plan to fly in by Wednesday night and can leave anytime after 2 pm on Friday. Those participating just in the board meeting (Will and some others) just need to be there on Thursday.

Hotels. Unfortunately DC hotels are very expensive and unless you go way out to the suburbs there are no cheap hotels nearby. The most convenient is the Georgetown Holiday Inn right next door. The rate on the web as of today was $149 a night plus tax which is actually about as low as it goes for that hotel. I do have a list of other hotels if anyone is interested. The only other hotel within walking distance is the Savoy Suites and it tends to be even a little more expensive.

Schedule for Thursday/Friday. The general schedule will be to have the board meeting on Thursday and then a project follow-up meeting on Friday. Here is a strawman schedule for Thursday:

• 10 am: introduction to project and goals/objectives: Kevin Cleary
• 10:30 am: demonstration of example applications
  • Image-guided system for lung biopsy using optical tracking (Polaris): Patrick Cheng
  • Image-guided system for spine using electromagnetic tracking (Aurora): James Zhang
• 11 am: IGSTK architecture: Luis Ibanez
• 11:30 am: IGSTK software development process: Kevin Gary
• 11:50 am: IGSTK project management and process: Rick Avila
• 12:10: lunch break to serve food (food to be brought in)
• 1:00 pm: IGSTK state machine and state machine discussion
  • First hour: twenty minute presentations by Luis, David, and Kevin
  • Second hour: discussion
• 3:00 pm: Error handling
• 3:30 pm: IGSTK components
  • Communications / tracking: David Gobbi
  • Reader/writer: Andinet
  • Visualization: Rick
  • Spatial objects: Julien / Stephen
• 4:30 pm: Wrap-up and summary

Thursday evening: dinner at ISIS to continue discussion of state machines, start planning for next year

Friday schedule: meet at 10 am to continue planning discussion, finish by 2 pm for those who need to catch flights

List of IGSTK project attendees:

• Kevin Cleary, Georgetown
• Luis Ibanez, Kitware
• Rick Avila, Kitware
• Andinet, Kitware
• Kevin Gary, Arizona State University
• Patrick Cheng, Georgetown
• Brian Blake, Georgetown
• James Zhang, Georgetown
• Stephen Aylward, UNC
• Julien Jomier, UNC

List of advisory board members and other possible attendees:

• Will Schroeder, Kitware
• Terry Yoo, NLM
• John Haller, NIBIB
• Matt McAulifee, NIH
• Ivo Wolf, Heidelberg, teleconference
• Peter Kazanzides, Johns Hopkins
• Anton Deguet, Johns Hopkins