Agenda&Status 082908

SECOND MEETING IN SECOND LIFE

Testing Infrastructure

• Testing voice communication
• Testing chat
• Joining the group "Insight Toolkit"
  • Testing group voice
  • Testing group chat
• Testing web portals (cube in the ground)
  • Dashboard
  • Wiki
  • ViewCVS
• Distributing ITK & CMake T-Shirts

Project Management

• ITK 3.10 versus ITK 4.0
  • http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_Schedule#Release_3.10_Schedule

Technical Topics

• ImageIO support for GUI
  • ImageIO classes should report
    • The extensions that they support
    • A description for each extension
    • A generic name for the file format ?
    • Currently the ImageIO classes have methods
      • ArrayOfExtensionsType GetSupportedWriteExtensions() const
      • ArrayOfExtensionsType GetSupportedReadExtensions() const
      • void AddSupportedWriteExtension( const char * extension )
      • void AddSupportedReadExtension( const char * extension )
  • Questions
    • How to deal with Analyze and Nifti
    • How to deal with DICOM (no specific extension)
  • Proposals
    • Proposal 1
      • Change the GetSupportedWriteExtensions() and GetSupportedReadExtensions() to return an array of pairs (extension, description)
      • Add a method to return a generic description of the ImageIO (e.g. NIFTI, Analyze, MetaImage)
    • Proposal 2
      • Change the GetSupportedWriteExtensions() and GetSupportedReadExtensions() to return an array of triplets (extension, description,generic description)
• Oriented Images
• Lesion Sizing Toolkit
  • http://public.kitware.com/LesionSizingKit