[Insight-developers] Announcement..

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Folks-

I've gotten the green light for the announcement regarding next weeks 
(public) portion of the meeting. Please send it to whom you believe may be 
interested.

Will
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ANNOUNCING

ITK: The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
When: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:00-5:00pm
Where: Auditorium 250, Second Floor Tosteson Medical Education Center
Info: www.itk.org

The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) is an open source
software system supporting the Visible Human Project. ITK was developed by
six principal firms (three academic-UNC,U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Utah; and
three commercial-GE Research, Insightful, Kitware) and funded through The
National Library of Medicine at NIH. ITK employs a variety of leading edge
segmentation and registration algorithms in 2D, 3D, and more dimensions, and
is being developed using advanced, distributed software processes. This
presentation marks the first formal introduction of ITK to the public.  We
will provide a brief history of and motivation for the software, a survey of
available registration and segmentation algorithms, live demonstrations, and
an overview of the development environment. We will also discuss some early
reviews from the ITK community and plans for the future. Developers,
Principal Investigators, and NLM project officers will be available for
questions after the presentation.


Thursday June 13, 2002
Schedule of Presentations
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2:00 - 3:00 An Introduction to ITK
    + Introduction
            Goals, objectives, team, relationship to VHP (Visible Human 
Project)
            Validation Effort

    + Overview
            Architecture, major design decisions, major subsystems
            Use of templates/generic programming
            Image representation
            Mesh Representation

    + Registration Algorithms & Framework
            Various algorithms and results

    + Segmentation Algorithms & Framework
            Various algorithms and results

    + Future
            Upcoming releases, etc.
            Annoucement of the Beta2.

3:00 - 4:20 Demonstrations
     + Live demos

4:00 - 5:00 Developing with ITK
     + Development Environment

     + Architectural Features
            Memory management (smart pointers, object factories, etc.)
            Events (command/observer)
            Image Processing (Image, iterators, etc.)
            Mesh
            Data flow
            Image IO

5:00 - Informal Meetings