ITK/Tcons/Agendas/2011 09 02

How to Join the Tcon

Number to Call

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

Webex

• Meeting link
• https://emeetings.webex.com/emeetings/e.php?AT=WMI&EventID=154207872&PW=NNmY3MzU1NTQz&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D

Project Management

• Developers Meeting September 27-28
  • NLM

THE END IS NEAR !!

• Closing on Beta Release
• Test, Fix, Merge, or Die !

FEM

• Memory leaks pending
  • Create Instance bug
    • Suggestion to remove the Register call from this method.

Level Sets

• Merged Gerrit Patches
  • 2519
  • 2520
  • 2523
  • 2524
  • 2525
  • 2598
• Pending
  • 2526
  • And a collection of JIRA tickets

Registration

• Merged
  • High Dimensional Optimizers
    • Gerrit 2569
• Transform Patch
  • Remaining JIRA Tickets (~10)
• MICCAI Tutorial
  • Tests / Examples ?

Simple ITK

• Image Buffer Access
• Packaging
• MICCAI Tutorial
• Web pages are up
  • http://www.kitware.com/SimpleITK/project/project.html
  • Need some retouches (soon...)
• Proposal to rename it as "QuickITK"
  • Codename "IQ"

WrapITK

• Many tickets closed by gaetan (6+)
• Wrapping working again
• New classes wrapped
• packaging being sync'ed with simpleITK (python currently)
• Next: finish wrapitk integration
• Next(2): C#
• infrastructure: set up a robot build with wrapping (mac)

DICOM

• Tcon with Slicer team.
• DICOM in ITK mainly serves Slicer
• slicer community go for DCMTK / CTK
• problem in syncing with ITK leading to double parsing
• GDCM to be replaced by DCMTK eventually
• PACS Support not to be done in ITK as it always involve a GUI or an individual/application in the middle.
• DICOM RT and Diffusion MRI *could* be priority now
• New roadmap and deliverable to be decided by Alex/steve/STephen very soon

GPU

• Status ?
  • Mac Compilation
  • Scope of filters to support ?
• Patch added today
  • http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2577

TIFF Update

• Hackathon August 2011
  • TIFF 4.0 Beta 7 updated. Merged:
    • http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2510
    • Support for BigTiff (>4Gb images)
    • Working on support for Aperio (.svs images)
    • Restored Large MetaImage tests:
      • http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2528

Numerical Libraries

• Refactor Numerical Libraries
  • Inventory of Numerical Libraries
  • Fourier Transforms
• Avoiding FORTRAN to C translation
• Removing "eispack and "linpack" to be replaced with "lapack" calls
  • provide "lapack" through "lapacke"
• Immediate Targets
  • FFT
  • Linear Solvers for large sparse matrices (for FEM)

Dashboard

• New Stronger Warning Settings
  • Problem: Hyper-Abundance of Warnings is killing the CDash Server.
  • Proposal: Activate the warning on selected modules and clean house-by-house...
    • This divide-and-conquer method proved to be successful when cleaning KWStyle issues.

Bug fix release

• ITK 3.20.1
• Fix Win64 Visual Studio compile issues
  • http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2142
• Fix GCC 4.6 issues
  • http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2187
• Pending patch on ImageIO issue raised by Slicer.
  • Bill Lorensen will look at it and potentially put a Gerrit patch.
• Stable release for Slicer to build against
• ITK First: Hold ground on quality control

Schedule

• Transition Plan
• ITKv4 Alpha-09 Tagged

BETA RELEASE

• New Date : September 15th
• SCRUM Process
  • Tools: (demo) https://itk.icts.uiowa.edu/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
    • Five Sprints (two weeks each).
      • Two Sprints Left.