[Insight-developers] Agenda and directions...

[Terry S. Yoo]

For those of you not on my PI mailing list, here's a cross-posting
of my notice to Insight Developers.

Here's the tentative agenda for the 2nd meeting of the Insight
Software Consortium.

For directions to NLM, check the web page, url:

    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/visitor.html

See some of you next week!

Mee

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Insight Software Developers Meeting
22-23 June 2000
NLM, Board of Regents Room
Building 38
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD  20894


Thursday 22 June

830am  Coffee 'n Danish

9am  Welcome (Ackerman and Yoo)
    Status Report (state of the project)
    Upcoming Fall site visits
    CVS Repository
    Change in the list-server
    Logo Ideas

    Subcommittee Reports
       Architecture Subcommittee
       Validation Subcommittee

10:00am Break

10:15am Fifteen Minute Progress Reports

    10:15 GE-CRD (Lorensen)
    10:35 Harvard BWH (Ratiu)
    11:55 Kitware (Schroeder)
    11:15 Mathsoft (Chalana)

11:35am Lunch

12:40pm  Fifteen Minute Progress Reports (continued)

    12:40 UPenn GRASP (Gee)
     1:00 UNC-CH (Aylward)
     1:20 Pittsburgh (Stetten)
     1:40 U-Penn VAST (Metaxas)
     2:00 U-Penn Radiology (Udupa)
     2:20 Columbia (Imielinska) 
     2:40 UTK (Whitaker)

3:00pm  Break

3:15pm  Architecture (Lorensen and Schroeder)

     3:15 Architecture Overview
     4:00 Example programs, user experiences
	 4:00 UNC-CH (Aylward and Ibanez)
	 4:10 Pittsburgh (Stetten)
	 4:20 UTK (Whitaker and Cates)
     4:30 Open Discussion

5:30pm Recess



Friday 23 June

830am  Coffee 'n Danish

9am  NLM - Perspective
    9:00 Recap Architecture Discussion (Yoo)

    9:10 NLM Position statement (Yoo):
	   Target Audience for Insight
	   Design Goals
	   Success Criteria
	   Target Data (beyond VHP)
	   Validation Target User
	   Validation Algorithm developer perspective
	   Validation Anatomist perspective

    9:30 Discussion  (Moderator: Lorensen)


10:00am Break

10:15am Architectural Issues  (Moderator: Lorensen)

    How well does the architecture fit the target audience?
    What can we do to better meet the needs of the target audience?
    Generic programming principles are intended to better
       serve the target user.  Are they doing that?
    Ideas for future work assignments.

    Generation of action items.

11:45am Lunch

1:00pm  Validation Issues  (Moderator: Lorensen)

    What can we do to better meet the needs of the target audience?
    How can the anatomy and imaging experts provide validation
	assistance for the algorithm designers?
    How can the algorithm designers provide programming
	assistance for the anatomy and imaging experts?
    Ideas for future work assignments.

    Generation of action items.

3:00pm  Action Items, Issues, and Summary (Yoo)

3:30pm Recess





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Terry S. Yoo, Ph.D.
National Library of Medicine                    National Institutes of Health
High Performance Computing and Communications                 yoo at nlm.nih.gov
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