Release 3.14

Release 3.14 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Moving code from ITK Review Directory to final destination	March 15 2009	May 24 2009
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ)	March 15 2009	May 15 2009
Selecting IJ papers	April 1 2009	May 15 2009
Bug triage	April 1 2009	April 7 2009
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory	April 1 2009	May 24 2009
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage	May 25 2009	May 29 2009
CVS Tagging	May 30 2009	May 30, 2009
Testing tarballs	May 30 2009	May 30 2009
Posting tarballs	May 31 2009	May 31 2009

Insight Journal Papers to move to Review

Current suggested list:

Part A

• These two papers provide similar functionalities:
  • A Generalized Squared Euclidean Distance Transform with Voronoi Maps
  • Morphology with parabolic structuring elements
• A Novel Information-Theoretic Point-Set Measure Based on the Jensen-Havrda-Charvat-Tsallis Divergence(related to paper 317)
• Automatic Junction Detection for Tubular Structures
• Combining labeled images with ITK
  • Lorensen has started on this one.
• Computational Geometry Computation and KNN Segmentation in ITK
• Digital Topology
  • Lots of comments from Gaetan. He has already addressed many issues with the code. Be sure to use his updated code.
  • Sadely, I found some quite important problems while working on this code, like some non thread safe methods. Richard has started some similar work which may be less problematic. Glehmann 20:09, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
• Direct Fourier Tomographic Reconstruction Image-To-Image Filter
  • Wes Turner has downloaded this and is preparing it for addition to review.
• Exporting Contours to DICOM-RT Structure Set
• Fast BlockMatching Registration with Entropy-based Similarity
• Fast Marching Minimal Path Extraction in ITK
• Flux driven medial curve extraction
• Generating a Deformation Field from a Transform
  • Needs copyright clarification
  • This class has already been moved to review in July 2008 (cvs log)
• Go-Go Gabor Gadgetry
  • Lorensen has already downloaded this and is preparing for addition to Review
• Graph Cuts, Caveat Utilitor, and Euler's Bridges of Konigsberg(Verify Patent Status)(Siemens Patent)
• Gridding Graphic Graticules
  • Lorensen has already downloaded this and is preparing for addition to Review
• Add a combination of these two helper classes:
  • Helper class for initializing the grid parameters of a BSpline,Helper class for initializing the grid parameters of a BSpline deformable transform by using an image as reference
  • Helper classes for the BSplineDeformableTransform
• ITK Implementation Of The Minimum Error Image Thresholding Algorithm
• ITK Order K Distance Transform
• Image registration using the Morphon algorithm: an ITK implementation

Part B

• ImageNetworkReader: an ITK Class for Loading Images Across a Network
• Implementation of a 3D thinning algorithm
• Implementation of weighted Dijkstra’s shortest-path algorithm for n-D images
• Implementing the Automatic Generation of 3D Statistical Shape Models with ITK
• Improvements to the itk::KernelTransform and Subclasses(almost a bug fix)
• Incorporating Metric Flows and Sparse Jacobian Transformations in ITK
• Information-Theoretic Directly Manipulated Free-Form Deformation Labeled Point-Set Registration(Postpone for next release to allow for modification).(related to paper 304)
• Label object representation and manipulation with ITK (65 classes). Provides most of the features of A Label Geometry Image Filter for Multiple Object Measurement, but there are still a few ones not covered.
• Level Set Segmentation: Active Contours without edge (10~20 classes)(combine with paper 323) (Karthik)(Alex & Arnaud have newer code)
• Live-Wire-ing the Insight Toolkit with Intelligent Scissors (1~2 classes)
• LookAt Transform Initializer and Oblique Section Image Filter (1 class)
• Meeting Andy Warhol Somewhere Over the Rainbow: RGB Colormapping and ITK (1~2)(**)(Michel Audette)
• Microscopy Image Analysis: Blob Segmentation using Geodesic Active Contours (Check if it can be merged with the Lesion Sizing Toolkit).(Wes Turner)
• Non-negative matrix factorization framework for dimensionality reduction and unsupervised clustering(3 classes) (Wes Turner)
• Non-rigid Groupwise Registration using B-Spline Deformation Model
• Phase Correlation Method for ITK(~10 classes) (Wes Turner)
• Polar Transforms for ITK(1 class)
• Reader/Writer for Analyze Object Maps for ITK(4 classes)
• Run-Length Matrices For Texture Analysis
• Stochastic Fractal Dimension Image(~2 classes) (Michel Audette/Luis Ibanez)(DONE)
• itkEllipseBoundaryToImageFilter(1 class)(Michel Audette)
• level set segmentation using coupled active surfaces(Relates to paper 322) (Karthik)(Alex and Arnaud have newer code)
• Some extra image logical operations