ITK/Release Schedule

Schedule of upcoming ITK releases

Release Number	Date
2.2	August 30 2005
2.4	November 30 2005
2.6	February 28 2006
2.8	May 30 2006
3.0	October 30 2006
3.2	February 28 2007
3.4	Jun 30 2007
3.6	Sept 30 2007

Release Life Cycle

Last period for adding classes and features

• New classes will be selected from good reviews from the Insight Journal
• New features and new methods can be added during this period.

Feature Freeze

• Increase code coverage
  • address any UNTESTED files
  • address files with code coverage lower than 80%
• Address Run-time memory issues
  • Purify reports
  • Valgrind reports

CVS Tagging

The repository is tagged by using two tags, one for the reference, and another for the branch.

Posting Tarballs

• Tarballs are posted to SourceForge
• Tarballs are linked from the ITK Download

Release 2.4 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Last period for adding classes	October 15 2005	November 11 2005
Feature freeze	November 12 2005	November 28 2005
CVS Tagging	November 29 2005	November 29 2005
Posting tarballs	November 30 2005	November 30 2005

Release 2.6 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Last period for adding classes	January 15 2006	February 11 2006
Feature freeze	February 12 2006	February 26 2006
CVS Tagging	February 26 2006	February 26 2006
Testing tarballs	February 26 2006	February 28 2006
Posting tarballs	February 28 2006	February 28 2006

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Contributions

Contributions from the Insight Journal being considered for inclusion in this Release. We will follow the procedures outlined here.

Deadline for having 3 reviews : January 31

Except for submission taken from MICCAI Workshop, for which only a code review is needed.

Paper	Reviewer 1	Done	Reviewer 2	Done	Reviewer 3	Done	Shepherd	Recommendation	Committed
Unsupervised Segmentation of Miofibers (from MICCAI Workshop)	Luis	X					Luis	Include AutomaticThresholdImageFilter (rename class and methods, fix coding style)	Not yet
Tetrahedral Meshing (from MICCAI Workshop)	Vincent		Sylvain	X				Not include in 2.6, it has Licensing issues	Will not
Open Topology Toolkit (from MICCAI Workshop)	Bill							Do not include in itk 2.6	Will not
Local Maxima Image Filter	Karthik	X	Andinet		Dan	X	Luis	include in 2.6	Not Yet
B-Spline Scattered Data Approximation	Luis		Lydia				Lydia	Defer for ITK 2.8	Will not
Binary Morphological opening and closing	Luis		Jim		Sylvain	X	Jim	Waiting for Author revisions. Defer for ITK 2.8	Will not
Invert Intensity Image Filter	Luis	X	Bill	X	Sylvain	X	Bill	Include with minor coding style changes	Yes
Morphological Gradient	Karthik	X	Jim	X	Bill	X	Bill	Include with minor coding changes	Yes
Modulus Image Filter	Luis	X	Jim	X	Bill	X	Bill	Include with minor coding changes	Yes
Minimal Imposition Image Filter	Luis		Sylvain	X			Luis	Include with minor coding changes	Not yet
MINC 2.0 IO Support for ITK	Luis		Mathieu	X	Sylvain	X		Defer for ITK 2.8. Concerns about library dependencies.	Will not
Finding regional extrema	Luis				Jim		Luis	Include with minor coding changes (name)	Not tet
Extending MATLAB with ITK	Karthik		Dan				Karthik	Include in Insight Applications	Yes
Image Calculator	Luis		Vincent		Bill		Hans	hold on for the reviews	Yes
Probability Distributions for the Insight Journal	Karthik	X	Luis	X	Stephen	X	Jim	Include (finish the reviews)	Not Yet
Updating GDCM + adding JPEG 2000							Mathieu	Mathieu to write a report for the IJ	Yes
ITK Filter for Bayesian Segmentation	Karthik		Andinet		Luis		Karthik	Include (still finish the reviews)	Yes

Release 2.8 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Reviewing Insight Journal	April 1 2006	May 1 2006
Last period for adding classes	May 1 2006	May 12 2006
Feature freeze	May 12 2006	May 26 2006
CVS Tagging	May 27, 2006	May 27, 2006
Testing tarballs	May 28, 2006	May 29, 2006
Posting tarballs	May 29 2006	May 30 2006

Contributions

Contributions from the Insight Journal being considered for inclusion in this Release. We will follow the procedures outlined here.

Deadline for having 3 reviews : May 1st 2006

Paper	Reviewer 1	Done	Reviewer 2	Done	Reviewer 3	Done	Shepherd	Recommendation	Committed
WrapITK: Enhanced languages support for the Insight Toolkit	Luis
Incorporating Metric Flows and Sparse Jacobian Transformations in ITK
Optimized Image Iterators	Jim		Luis		Gaetan	X
Improving features and performance of binary erode and dilate filters	Jim
Label Overlay	Julien	X	Bill
A small rework for the Gaussian Derivative Image Function	Julien
N-D Linear Time Exact Signed Euclidean Distance Transform	Vamsi	X	Luis	X	Gaetan	X	Luis
Improving performance of morphological reconstruction	Jim
Optimization of connected component labelling	Jim		Luis
Changes to itk::PathToImageFilter
ContourExtractor2DImageFilter: A subpixel-precision image isocontour extraction filter	Bill		Julien
Image projections along an axis	Jim

Release 3.0 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ)	Sept 1 2006	Sept 20 2006
Selecting best IJ papers	Sept 20 2006	Sept 30 2006
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory	Oct 1 2006	Oct 14 2006
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage	Oct 15 2006	Oct 27 2006
CVS Tagging	Oct 27, 2006	Oct 27, 2006
Testing tarballs	Oct 28, 2006	Oct 29, 2006
Posting tarballs	Oct 29 2006	Oct 30 2006

Contributions

Contributions from the Insight Journal being considered for inclusion in this Release. We will follow the procedures outlined here.

Deadline for having 3 reviews by ITK developers : September 20 2006

Paper	Reviewer 1	Done	Reviewer 2	Done	Reviewer 3	Done	Shepherd	Recommendation	Put in Review	Committed
WrapITK: Enhanced languages support for the Insight Toolkit

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Release 3.2 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ)	Dec 5 2006	Dec 15 2006
Selecting best IJ papers	Dec 5 2006	Dec 30 2006
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory	Jan 1 2007	Jan 30 2007
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage	Feb 1 2007	Feb 27 2007
CVS Tagging	Feb 28, 2007	Feb 28, 2007
Testing tarballs	Mar 1, 2007	Mar 3, 2007
Posting tarballs	Mar 3 2007	Mar 5 2007

Contributions

Contributions from the Insight Journal being considered for inclusion in this Release.

We will follow the procedures outlined here.

High Priority

1. Improving features binary erode and dilate [1] (Shepherd: Gaetan Lehman) [now in CVS]
2. An ITK Filter for Bayesian Segmentation: itkBayesianClassifierImageFilter [2] (Shepherd: Karthik Krishnan)
3. Watershed transform [3] (Shepherd: Gaetan Lehman)
4. Label Overlay [4] (Shepherd: Andinet Enquobahrie) [now in CVS Review]
5. Finding regional extrema - methods and performance [5] (Shepherd: Andinet Enquobahrie) [now in CVS Review]
6. Neural Networks IO [6] (Shepherd: Stephen Aylward) [now in CVS Review]
7. Probability Distributions for the Insight Toolkit [7] (Shepherd: Stephen Aylward) [now in CVS Review]
8. Contour Extractor 2D [8] (Shepherd: Andinet Enquobahrie) [now in CVS Review]
9. Image projections along an axis [9] (Shepherd: Andinet Enquobahrie) [now in CVS Review]
10. itk Quad Mesh [10] (Shepherd: Sylvain Jaume) [data structures now in CVS Review]
11. Using a mask to decrease computation for Spatial Object to image [11] (Shepherd: Julien Jomier)
12. Conformal Flattening ITK Filter [12] (Shepherd: Sylvain Jaume) [now in CVS Review]

Medium Priority

1. A Generalized Squared Euclidean Distance Transform with Voronoi Maps [13] (Shepherd: Luis Ibanez)
2. I-DO: A Deformable Organisms framework for ITK [14] (Shepherd: Luis Ibanez)
3. Incorporating Metric Flows and Sparse Jacobian Transorm in ITK [15] (Shepherd: Stephen Aylward)
4. Minimal Imposition Image Filter [16] (Shepherd: Julien Jomier)
5. Implementing the Automatic Generation of 3D Statistical Shape Models with ITK [17] (Shepherd: Vincent Magnotta)
6. itkEllipseBoundaryToImageFilter [18] (Shepherd: Hans Johnson)
7. itkLocalMaximaImageFilter [19] (Shepherd: Gaetan Lehmann)
8. Binary morphological closing and opening image filter [20] (Shepherd: Stephen Aylward)
9. Computational Geometry Computation and KNN Segmentation in ITK [21] (Shepherd: Stephen Aylward)
10. FFT Complex to Complex filters and helper classes [22] (Shepherd: Gaetan Lehmann)
11. FFT Shift [23] (Shepherd: Julien Jomier)
12. Parallel 3D Exact Signed Euclidean Distance Transform [24] (Shepherd: Sayan Pathak)

Low Priority

1. MINC2.0 IO Support for ITK [25]
2. Optimized image iterators [26]
3. Support for "cub" image format [27]
4. Cumulative Gaussian Curve Fitter for Boundary Parameterization [28]

Release 3.4 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ)	-	-
Selecting best IJ papers	-	-
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory	-	-
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage	Sep 1 2007	Sept 15 2007
CVS Tagging	Sept 16, 2007	Sept 16, 2007
Testing tarballs	Sept 16, 2007	Sept 16, 2007
Posting tarballs	Sept 17 2007	Sept 17 2007

Contributions

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High Priority

1. Using a Mask to Decrease Computation Time for SpatialObject to Image Conversions [29] (Shepherd: Julien Jomier)
2. Digital Topology [30] (Shepherd: ??)
3. Computational Geometry Computation and KNN Segmentation in ITK [31] (Shepherd: ??)
4. itkEllipseBoundaryToImageFilter [32] (Shepherd: Hans Johnson)
5. Implementing the Automatic Generation of 3D Statistical Shape Models with ITK [33] (Shepherd: Vincent Magnotta)
6. I-DO: A Deformable Organisms framework for ITK [34] (Shepherd: Luis Ibanez)
7. Minimal Imposition Image Filter [35] (Shepherd: Julien Jomier)
8. Binary morphological closing and opening image filter [36] (Shepherd: Luis Ibanez)
9. Support for "cub" image format [37] (Shepherd: Luis Ibanez)

Release 3.6 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Moving code from ITK Review Directory to final destination	Jan 5 2008	Jan 25 2008
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ)	Jan 5 2008	Jan 18 2008
Selecting best IJ papers	Jan 18 2008	Jan 18 2008
Bug triage	Jan 18 2008	Jan 18 2008
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory	Jan 19 2008	Jan 31 2008
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage	Feb 1 2008	Feb 27 2008
CVS Tagging	Feb 28, 2008	Feb 28, 2008
Testing tarballs	Feb 28, 2008	Feb 28, 2008
Posting tarballs	Feb 29 2008	Feb 29 2008

Deprecated code to be removed

• Alpha parameter from the Kernel Transforms

Code to be moved from Review to final destination

• Transform Readers Writers
  • Pick a filename extension
  • Do code reviews
• VTKPolyData Reader Writer (Not Yet: doesn't support QMesh)
  • Check tests
• Label filters
  • Label Overlay
  • Labet RGB
• NeuralNetworks
• Morphology Filters
• ConformalFlattening
• ContourExtractor
• FlatStructuringElement
• ProjectionFilters
• MINC ImageIO support

Contributions from IJ

High Priority

1. Digital Topology [38] (Shepherd: )
2. vtkINRIA3D: A VTK Extension for Spatiotemporal Data Synchronization, Visualization and Management [39] (Shepherd: )
3. Using a Mask to Decrease Computation Time for SpatialObject to Image Conversions [40] (Shepherd: )
4. FFT Complex to Complex filters and helper classes [41] (Shepherd: )
5. itkEllipseBoundaryToImageFilter [42] ( Shepherd: )
6. Implementing the Automatic Generation of 3D Statistical Shape Models with ITK [43] (Shepherd: )
7. Optimizing ITK’s Registration Methods for Multi-processor, Shared-Memory Systems [44] (Shepherd: )
8. I-DO: A Deformable Organisms framework for ITK [45] (Shepherd: )
9. Diffeomorphic Demons Using ITK's Finite Difference Solver Hierarchy [46] (Shepherd: )
10. Multidimensional Arrays and the nArray Package [47] (Shepherd: )
11. A Generalized Squared Euclidean Distance Transform with Voronoi Maps [48] (Shepherd: )
12. A support for "cub" image format [49] (Shepherd: )
13. Binary morphological closing and opening image filters [50] (Shepherd: )
14. MinimaImpositionImageFilter [51] (Shepherd: )

Low Priority

1. Non-rigid Groupwise Registration using B-Spline Deformation Model [52] (Shepherd: )
2. Generalizing vesselness with respect to dimensionality and shape [53] (Shepherd: )
3. Incorporating Metric Flows and Sparse Jacobian Transformations in ITK [54] (Shepherd: )
4. Class for Serial Transformations [55] (Shepherd: )
5. Kappa Sigma Clipping [56] (Shepherd: )
6. Radial Thickness Calculation and Visualization for Volumetric Layers [57] (Shepherd: )
7. Label object representation and manipulation with ITK [58] (Shepherd: )
8. Cumulative Gaussian Curve Fitter for Boundary Parameterization [59] (Shepherd: )
9. Optimized image iterators [60] (Shepherd: )
10. Slice by slice filtering with ITK [61] (Shepherd: )
11. Consolidated morphology [62] (Shepherd: )
12. Reader/Writer for Analyze Object Maps for ITK [63] (Shepherd: )
13. A small rework for the Gaussian Derivative Image Function [64] (Shepherd: )

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