[IGSTK-Developers] HSMDSS Position Paper for Review

[Stephen R. Aylward]

Hi Brian

I am reading over the paper - one quick note: Julien and I are in the 
Department of Radiology at UNC - not comp sci.

What about including a organization paragraph at the start of or just 
before section 2?
Something the introduces the major software challenges and/or themes of 
the paper and provides an outline to the paper.

Section 2.2 and 2.3 are weak.   I am not certain what is the goal of 
these sections.  DICOM is the medical image/data communication standard. 
   Various extensions support overlays, CAD results, patient data 
including medical exams being requested, pathology results, etc. 
Tracker data communication isn't part of this standard - but I am not 
certain if this was your focus.   Seems like you need a problem domain: 
for intra-operative guidance there is a need for maintaining a scene, 
spatial relationship between objects, etc - that isn't well addressed by 
existing standards.   Perhaps that can be the focus.   That should then 
reference SpatialObjects and Scene graph theory - The Insight 
SoftwareGuide has a chapter on spatial objects and could be referenced. 
  XML is a file format (kind of) that could be used to transfer a scene...

To me, the major contribution is section 3.   Presents challenges to 
software design, logging, and perhaps goes a bit against norms of reuse 
(you don't necessarily want to make code general - it should be specific 
to ensure validation/verification - but then it isn't good for re-use). 
  etc.

Just my thoughts...   I think you write very well and that there is a 
huge need to document this experience as you are doing!

THANKS!
Stephen


M. Brian Blake wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have attached a draft of the HSMDSS position paper that I put together (very rough still). Please read and add comments. Send it back to me and I will merge for submission on Monday. So please try to get me comments by this weekend.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Brian
> 
> M. Brian Blake, Ph.D
> Assistant Professor
> Georgetown University
> Washington, DC 20057
> mb7 at georgetown.edu
> http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~blakeb/
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