[Insight-developers] ITK Meeting Game Plan

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Hans-

At 03:33 PM 9/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>ITK-Developers,
>
>I was unable to listen in on the conference call today.
>
>Has an agenda been set for the rapidly approaching ITK meeting?  If so,
>how much time does each site have to present what we have done?  Will
>there be an ITK powerpoint template so that we all look polished? What
>is the decided on theme that all presentations should focus on?

Great questions. Here is the tentative agenda. Everybody gets 15 minutes, 
and this will be enforced. I think that a common PPT template is a good 
idea in principle, but I don't think it will happen in practice and anyway, 
everybody probably want to do a little PR.

>Heads up folks...
>
>Here's the tentative schedule for the meeting a week-from-monday.
>I need titles for the talks, right away.  If you're not talking,
>please let me know who is talking (right away), and get a title
>from them.  Also please forward this agenda to anyone in your
>group who isn't on the list above.
>
>We're making the talks 15 minutes.  The purpose of this meeting
>is to show the future of ITK.  The talks will be less technical
>with more emphasis on applications.  Our hope is to engage the
>Federal funding officers with how ITK is affecting cancer,
>liver, heart, etc.  Or how well ITK integrates with established
>software systems.
>
>We're very limited in time.  No one will be allowed to go over
>time.  I will be on the sidelines with a hook.
>
>This is the time to show the demos, the great pictures, and to
>sell your work.  The audience is not your peers, but the funding
>agencies that we want to get more money.
>
>Terry
>
>--
>
>
>itk September Developers Meeting 9/22/2003-9/23/2003
>
>Lister Hill Auditorium
>
>September 22 ------------------------------------------------------
>Open Meeting
>
>9:00 Welcome & Project Overview (Terry / Ackerman / NLM high level guy?)
>      Important to talk about this new process of establishing open-source
>      community, thanking sponsors, etc..
>
>9:15 System Overview (GE)
>9:30 Technology Overview (Stephen)
>9:45 - Software Overview (Kitware)
>       + ITK Release 1.4
>       + ITK Software Guide
>       + CMake
>       + CableSwig
>       + Dart
>
>10:00 Break
>
>10:15 Features, Level Sets and PDEs
>     Utah - Level Sets, 4D Curvature Flow
>     Harvard BWH - Level Set Segmentation
>     UPenn Udupa - Active Shape Models
>     Insightful -
>         "Feature Extraction, Quantification and Tracking for Medical Imaging
>         Applications in ITK"
>     GE - Algorithms and Applications with ITK
>
>11:30 Break
>
>11:45 Brains, Deformable Registration, and Modeling
>     UIowa
>     UPenn Gee -
>         "Non-rigid registration and modeling using the finite element
>         method in ITK"
>
>12:15 - Q&A
>
>12:30 - Lunch
>
>1:30 ITK Integrated Systems
>     Mayo Clinic - Analyze
>     Kitware - Volview
>     Cognitica - SNAP
>     Utah - SCI Run
>
>2:30  Break
>
>2:45 ITK Clinical Development
>     Rutgers - Metaxas
>     UNC-CH - Aylward
>     ICON - Rueckert
>     Georgetown - Cleary
>
>3:45 Break
>
>4:00 Validation and Education
>     CMU/UPitt - Stetten
>     Utah - Whitaker
>     Columbia/UPenn - Imielinska
>     UPenn/Columbia - Udupa
>
>5:00 Q&A / Adjourn
>
>
>Tuesday September 23  ---------------------------------------------
>Closed Meeting
>
>9:00 - Four Year Summary - Yoo
>
>10:00 - Contractor experiences, lessons learned
>
>12:00 - Lunch (to celebrate a successful project) - TBD
>
>2:00 - Adjourn
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Terry S. Yoo, Ph.D.
>National Library of Medicine               National Institutes of Health
>High Performance Computing and Communications            yoo at nlm . nih . gov
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