ITK Release 4/Microscopy/File Formats/Hackathon August 2011

Goals

TIFF Update

• Background
  • TIFF 4.0
  • ITK-159
• Tasks
  • Complete update of TIFF 4.0 library
  • Verify usage for TIFF files larger than 4Gb
  • Verify usage for TIFF streaming
  • Verify usage for TIFF extra resolutions

JPEG2000 Review

• Verify usage for JPEG2000 files larger than 4Gb
• Verify usage for JPEG2000 streaming
• Verify usage for JPEG2000 extra resolutions

ITK IO API

• Propose API for managing multi-resolution files
• Image Interpretation layer
  • ODP
  • PDF

TIFF Microscopy Units

• What to do about lack of units in ITK spacing ?
  • mm ?
  • Introduce an enum type ? a class ?
  • Introduce a units conversion class ?
    • To centralize the computation and prevent inconsistent units conversion.
      • Think of the Mars Rover...

Bioformats Patch

• Review Gaetan's patch to interface to Bioformats ?

Participants

On Site

• Brad Lowekamp
• Curtis Lisle
• Matt McCormick
• Luis Ibanez
• Andinet Enquobahrie

Remote

• Arnaud Gelas
• Kishore Mosilaganti

Venue

• NLM - Bethesda
  • NIH Campus

UnAgenda

Day 1

• 9:30 Computers / Network setup
• 10:00 Live Code Review of TIFF Gerrit patch
• 12:00 Merge of TIFF Gerrit patch
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Tests of 6Gb files
• 3:30 Streaming tests on TIFF files
• 5:30 Adjourn

Day 2

• 9:30am Image interpretation layer (database ?)(Channels/Resolutions/Size)
• 10:30am Managing files with internal multi-resolution
• 11:30am Managing TIFF files with J2K compression
• 12:30pm Lunch
• 1:30pm Tests of JPEG2000 streaming
• 3:30pm Tests of JPEG2000 multi-resolution
• 4:00pm Adjourn