[IGSTK-Developers] Re: preliminary schedule for Jan 4-5 planning meeting for next phase of IGSTK

[Nobuhiko Hata]

Kevin and members of IGSTK core developers

Congratulation on your acceptance the IGSTK grant to NIH.
  I will try to attend the meeting by phone.

Nobuhiko Hata, PhD
National Center for Image Guided Therapy
Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Kevin Cleary wrote:

> Hi everyone:
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> As most of you know, we will have a planning meeting at Georgetown  
> on Jan 4-5 for the next phase of IGSTK. A start at the proposed  
> schedule is below my signature. We will discuss this at the tcon  
> this Thursday at 1 pm, and any feedback is welcome.
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> As far as the contract goes, I have been told by NIBIB that the  
> earliest start date for the new money is February 1st. It will then  
> take me up to a month to get subcontracts issued. So my guess is  
> that we will not start work again in any serious way until March or  
> later. For now we are in maintenance mode, trying to finish a few  
> things and the book before the SPIE Medical Imaging meeting in  
> February.
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> For the planning meeting, I suggest we have a core group of the key  
> developers come to Georgetown and others can teleconference in.  
> Right now, I am hoping that Luis, David, Kevin Gary, and perhaps  
> Andinet can come, while Julien, Stephen, Rick, and Will can be  
> available by teleconference for parts of the meeting. I am also  
> hoping that our Norway partners can come or teleconference in. And  
> I will invite Terry Yoo, Peter Kazanzides, and Noby Hata to join us  
> in person or by phone for parts of the meeting in an advisory  
> capacity (sorry, this may be the first you guys are hearing about  
> this;).
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> So please see the details below my signature and let me know if you  
> have any comments or suggestions. Once I clean this up some more, I  
> will post it on the Wiki.
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> Thanks
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> Kevin
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> Goal of Meeting: to set the strategic direction and general work  
> plan for the next three years of IGSTK development
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> Background:
> ·         First phase of project winding down (Small business  
> contract to Kitware)
> ·         Basic components of toolkit are in place
> ·         Three year NIH grant will start around February 1
> ·         Goal is to develop a robust toolkit that can be used in  
> FDA approved clinical applications as well as for prototyping of  
> new applications
> ·         State machine architecture is key feature
> Two day planning meeting:
> ·         Thursday Jan 4: review of project, discussion of issues,  
> strategic directions for future work
> ·         Friday Jan 5: planning for future work, management plan,  
> action plan and milestones
> Thursday Jan 4:
> ·         History of project, contracts, deliverables: Kevin Cleary
> ·         Core IGSTK
> o        State machines: Luis
> o        Tracker: David
> o        Building an application: Patrick
> ·         User perspective: Ziv Yaniv
> ·         Validation activities: Kevin Gary
> ·         Application builder / workflow: Stephen Alyward
> ·         Norway perspective: Jon Kasperson / Frank Lindseth
> ·         Relationship with Slicer: Kevin Cleary / Noby Hata
> ·         Hopkins perspective: Peter Kazanzides
> ·         NLM perspective: Terry Yoo
> ·         Followed by discussion of:
> o        Goals for next phase
> o        Discussion of issues
> o        Strategic directions
> Friday Jan 5:
> ·         Implementation plan including infrastructure, tools,  
> management
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> /// That’s all ////
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