[Insight-developers] [Fwd: [Insight-users] Thanks to ITK developers!]

[Bill Lorensen]

Steven,
I think this merits discussion on tomorrows tcon. Looks like good PR down the road...

Bill

At 06:16 PM 12/19/02 -0500, Stephen R. Aylward wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Are we interested in incorporating the changes suggested by this guy?
>
>Stephen
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: [Insight-users] Thanks to ITK developers!
>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:46:46 +0200
>From: Hannu Helminen <Hannu.Helminen.0001@dosetek.varian.com>
>To: insight-users@public.kitware.com
>
>
>We have succesfully deployed the mutual information registration algorithm
>of ITK into our application. It is possible that the algorithm appears in a
>future product. In our tests the algorithm has performed very well.
>
>I would like to express our gratitude to the ITK project, and especially
>Lydia Ng who has developed the package, and Luis Ibanez for his support in
>this mailing list.
>
>While deploying, we have developed some enhancements, and in true open
>source spirit we have offered two of them to be donated back to the ITK
>project:
>- major speed increase in the multi-resolution registration
>- increased exception safety in multithreaded algorithms
>
>There has been very little interest in these enhancements by the ITK staff.
>But they are nevertheless available in the mailing list archives, in case
>someone is interested in using them. See the threads on "speed
>optimizations" on 2002-05-22 and "thread safety" (sic) on 2002-10-02.
>
>Best regards,
>Hannu Helminen
>Varian Medical Systems Finland Oy
>Hannu Helminen
>Varian Medical Systems Finland Oy
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