Agenda&Status 101210

How to Join the Tcon

Number to Call

• 1-800-728-9607 (in the US) or
• +1 9139049873 (international)
• access code 6815251

Webex

• Meeting link
• https://emeetings.webex.com/emeetings/j.php?ED=138191182&UID=482060457&PW=NNzJiNDk1ZGU3

Project Management

November Meeting

• Date of next meeting:
  • November 2010
  • Location: Iowa
• Fall ITKv4 2010 Meeting
  • Draft Agenda:
    • Fall ITKv4 2010 Meeting#Meeting_Agenda
    • Note Suggested Gerrit hands-on Workshop

February Meeting

• PIs to send calendar conflicts to Terry

Technical Topics

Previous Meeting Action Items

• Minutes_100510
• All Done !!

LICENSING Changes

• Stephen was right last tcon, the licensing changes have not been applied yet to ITK's source tree.
• The changes were applied on Wednesday
• Licensing
• LICENSE file: has the Apache 2.0 license
• NOTICE file: has the copyright notice and a manifesto of all other third party pieces of code that ITK carries.
  • Please review to see if anything is missing. This was taken from the Debian distribution of ITK 3.16.
• Copyright headers in all ITK files must be changed now
  • Proposal is here : File Header Changes
• PENDING:
  • Change the license in the Web site:
    • http://www.itk.org/ITK/project/license.html

Patented Code Removed

• Files related to patented methods were removed on Friday.
  • YEAH !!
• Patented methods are welcome as long as the patent assignee provides a license compatible with the terms of the Apache 2.0 license:
  • Patent Licensing:

...a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work...

Dashboard

• Dashboard Status - Today's Dashboard
• Mathieu and Luis to report on openjpeg & gdcm
• Freezing until clean

Failing Tests

• itkGDCMImageIOTest5
• itkImageFileWriterStreamingPastingCompressingTest_DCM
• itkJPEG2000Test05 # FIXED
• itkJPEG2000Test06
• itkOptImageToImageMetricsTest04

Open Gerrit Reviews

The number of open reviews is growing. Currently open

ITKv4-A02

• • openjpeg related

Level Set

• Refactoring page
  • Refactoring Level-Set framework - V4
• Tcon Happened
  • Tcon 2010-09-10
  • Arnaud/Kishore organizing local meeting in Boston/Cambridge

Modularization

• Xiaoxiao Liu (at Kitware) to start working on partitioning the toolkit

TIFF Update

• TIFF 4.0 has been added to github branch:
  • http://github.com/luisibanez/ITK/tree/libtiff4beta6
• libtiff4.0
  • CMakeified
  • Available in github at:
    • http://github.com/arnaudgelas/libtiff-4.0
    • http://github.com/luisibanez/libtiff-4.0
• Dashboard at:
  • http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=libtiff
  • Target Date September 15th
  • Remaining issues:
    • Multi-platform configuration
      • Particularly: Definition of Integer types.

Image Registration Revision

• Mailing list was created:
  • http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/insight-registration
  • and announced:
  • http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2010-September/038232.html

• Discussion at MICCAI

• • Maybe resume on October ? 10am EST ?
• Past tcon:
  • Tcon 2010-09-07

Registration Topic Page

• Enhancing Image Registration Framework

Related Discussions

• Ziv Yaniv to summarize
• Is the | refactoring of the optimization framework going to be considered for itkv4?

Simple ITK

• Time to wrap-up the survey.
• Your last chance to send it to target communities.
• Take the survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SimpleITKCommunitySurvey
• Survey results - http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=7s_2f_2baOS0Pe06OO2dWBU_2btf8RPSPzgi8HGlud9B0ILsg_3d

DICOM

Dan and Mathieu to report

• Beginnings of a requirements document. Comments welcome.
• Proposed TConf

Gerrit Code Review

• Details in the ITK Gerrit Wiki page
• URL: http://review.source.kitware.com/
• Are all developers registered?
  • You only need an OpenID
• Phases

CDash @ Home

• Zach Mullen to report
• cdash@home progress
• Prototype will be ready by Nov meeting.

Doxygen

(Arnaud)

Recent version of doxygen (>= 1.7.0) runs multiple instances of dot in parallel!!!

Tests with doxygen 1.7.1, on a 6 cores machine 12Gb RAM

• with unmodified doxygen.config.in 330 min
• by changing cache size (and tweaking few parameters) 311 min
• Could it be improved?

Sequestered Reference Applications

We have already made significant changes, and they are not being recorded yet. It is time to setup these reference applications.

Ongoing

• V3D Plugins
• Slicer
• VV

Development Versions following ITKv4

• OTB
  • http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/buildSummary.php?buildid=29602
• GoFigure2
  • Nightly build use the current ITKv4.
  • http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=GoFigure2

Pending

• IGSTK
• Insight Applications (ITKApps from v3.20)
• ITK tests from v3.20

Wrapping

• Status (Alex)
• Wrapping

ITK Readers for Microscopy formats

• There's a need for readers in the microscopy community in order to be able to use ITK
  • Zeiss (LSM and ZVI)
  • Leica (LIF)
  • Olympus (OIB)
  • Nikon ()
• BioFormats has readers and example files for these. It is Java with C++ bindings for ITK, BUT it's GPL.

Coding Style

ITKv4_StyleChangeProposal

• Fixing KWStyle/CDash/CTest for Git : Brad Davis report

• The Google C+++ Style Guide is a good example of a style guide. Although the specifics may differ, the format and coverage of this guide is very nice. We may consider producing a similar Guide for ITKv4.

Uncrustify Code Cleanup (Hans)

• Status?

Software Process

Migration to Git

• Migration Completed
  • Procedure for contributing Patches: http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Git#Contributing_Patches
• Updating Dashboard Machines to Git
• Contractors to send information to Kitware about the developers who should receive Git write access.
  • (include email and public SSH key)

Clean up Releases

Release Tag	Date	Major Changes
Alpha-01	August 7	VS6,BCC55, SunCC (5.7?), Metrowerks Removal (based on compiler features), Remove large Images
Alpha-02	August 14	CMake Variables configuration cleanup
Alpha-03	August 21	GDCM 2.0, OpenJpeg-v2, +JPEG2000
Alpha-04	August 28	Third party libraries update: TIFF, JPEG, PNG

• Phases

Unit testing framework

A tutorial has been drafted using the Google Testing framework.