<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Mona Wong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mona@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">mona@sdsc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div>Hi Michael:<div><br><div><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite">Please keep this list updated as to your progress/problems/design direction and we will do our best to assist you.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>Will do and thank you very much! Patrick has asked me to keep track of my questions (and answers, if I find them) during this process. I have 4 already and will continue to add to it.</div>
<div><div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite">Can you tell me a bit more about the Annotation functionality if it isn't too much trouble.</blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
Sure, it is a web-based application written in HTML5 & canvas to annotate images using an ontology. We would like this app to be launchable from Midas for authorized users and save their annotations ( saved in XML) back to Midas. We plan to post-process this XML so users can search for annotations.</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Here are a couple of screen shots:</div><div><br></div><div><img height="527" width="652" src="cid:2589F928-659C-421E-B850-7B5CF564221B@sdsc.edu"></div><div><br>
</div><div><img height="528" width="652" src="cid:47C4D330-49B1-460F-A5BA-D0D4D785C73E@sdsc.edu"></div><div><div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite">Will you be visualizing slices or 3D volumes?</blockquote><div><br></div>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>We have 3D volume data and also DICOM data files. The python script will convert the data in these files to encoded PNGs, slice by slice. Then annio will display the images and allow users to annotate.</div>
<div><div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite">What kind of annotations will you be adding (points, lines, planes, region of interest, etc) ?</blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>It currently can do point, circle, open and closed polygon annotations.</div>
<div><div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"> Has this application already be written/deployed?</blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>I am working on it right now and hoping to demo it in 3 weeks for our yearly meeting...with the Midas part working (:</div>
<div><div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>My first Midas question is about the HTML5/canvas application. Where do you see this being displayed? Is it something you would like to run in a separate tab/browser window that you'd link to via the annotate action, something you'd like to run within Midas but using the Midas default layout (so it would run in the central content pane within the Midas layout, the SubMainContent div, which is where the message was displayed in my example module), or within Midas but using a custom layout?</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>Hmm, I was originally thinking #1 but all your options sound good. I think from the users' point of view, running inside Midas will be more intuitive for them. From Midas' perspective, which way is best? Which way is easiest?</div>
<div><div class="im"><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This will create some new challenges, since we have never had a plugin that included non-Midas content before within Midas (at least that I am aware of). We will enjoy working through the options with you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My opinion is that you are best off launching your application in a separate tab/window, especially given that you have a 3 week deadline, as this is the easiest. Then after that is working, you could look to integrate it in with the Midas display, which would give your users a more coherent experience. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Just from a UI perspective, I'd suggest doing it in an overlay page launched from Midas, since Midas has a lot going on with the UI as does your application, so it might be confusing to present them both, one inside the other. You'll need to think through how to start Annio, pass control to it, exit (or at least stop displaying Annio), send messages back to Midas, and pass control back to Midas.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Good Luck,</div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Also, in case you weren't aware of this, we have a Python client library called Pydas for communicating with a Midas server instance.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
Thank you for the info. Brian, who wrote the python processing script, has been using your Pydas library (:</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Mona</div><div class="im"><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
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