ITK Release 4/Software Guide Update

Software Guide Update

This page is intended to coordinate the effort of updating the ITK Software Guide

Revision of Existing Content

• Statistics Chapter must be revised to match the new framework
• IO Chapter
  • should list new ImageIO classes
  • Streaming must be described : how to use it.

• Describe how memory management works -- Most people want to use a minimal amount of memory, but by default, and following the examples uses tremendously more memory.

• Describe the pipeline behavior with more pictures

• The software guide should use its "soap box" more effectively in promoting best practices.

Addition of New Content

The following chapters will be added to the ITK Software Guide

FEM

• New FEM framework

Refactored Image Registration

• New capabilities
• Improving users experience

Modularization

• How to use modules
• Selecting modules
• Managing dependencies
• Creating a new module
• Searching for the module that contains a given class

Level Sets

• Generalized Level Sets

DICOM =

• GDCM 2.0
• DICOM Query / Retrieve

Simple ITK

• Should Simply ITK have its own book, customized to a different audience ?