Agenda&Status 031408

Project Management

• ITK 3.6 on March 2008
  • http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_Schedule#Release_3.6_Schedule
• ITK License being changed to OSI-approved BSD license
  • Expected announcement date: March 20th 2008: Spring Equinox
  • CMake, VTK, ParaView and IGSTK (among others) will change their licenses to OSI-approved BSD too.

Technical Topics

• Recent changes to Mattes Mutual Information Metric
  • PDF Derivatives Computation
    • Memory reduction controlled by a boolean flag
    • Trade-off for Transform with small number of parameters
  • Caching of BSPline Weights
    • Memory reduction controlled by a boolean flag
    • Trade-off 2~5 times speed up with caching, but memory allocations may grow up to 1Gb for a 256^3 image.
• Adding tests for
  • 3D Rigid registration
  • 2D BSpline warping
  • 2D BSpline deformable registration
  • 3D BSpline warping
  • 3D BSpline deformable registration
  • 3D Tests are conditioned to enabling the BRAINWEB CMake flag at configuration time.
• Facilitating 3D tests
  • Use CMake Curl for downloading the BrainWeb datasets when needed.