[IGSTK-Developers] Agenda for Thursday 1pm tcon

[Hui Zhang]

Hi,

A question is, whether we need an ultrasound calibration class for the 
ultrasound RF application.
I have implemented an ultrasound calibration class and put the description 
in the wiki,
http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI/index.php/Calibration_classes
but there has some questions:

1. Whether we need this class?
Ultrasound calibration should be done before the application, just like 
tracker calibration. But in the application, those preset calibration matrix 
can be written directly inside the code without using this class.

2. This class will introduce affine registration or similarity registration 
into IGSTK, so do we need make risk to bring similarity transform and affine 
transform inside IGSTK which means more work?
In my current code, I temporally use vtk classes to get affine and 
similarity transform. Those extended factors (scale) are caused by that the 
input information in the class from ultrasound image is the landmark point's 
index, not the real coordinate. If we switch the input from index to real 
coordinate, we only need rigid-body transform. But can we get spacing 
information from ultrasound video input?

Although I have finished this class, IGSTK should be a tight and elegant 
toolkit. So I am not sure whether we need this utility class or not. Please 
feel free to comment on this.

Regards,
James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gobbi" <dgobbi at atamai.com>
To: "IGSTK-developers" <igstk-developers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: [IGSTK-Developers] Agenda for Thursday 1pm tcon


> The preliminary agenda for the T-con is up:
> http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI/index.php/Agenda%26Status_022306
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> We will revisit last weeks discussion on applications following
> the suggestions from our fearless leader in the non-contiguous
> state (Hawaii).
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> The other main areas of discussion will be the status and deadlines
> for upcoming proposals, and identification of any additional
> components we will need in order to be able to write the needle
> driver, guidewire, and ultrasound RF applications.
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