[Insight-developers] Re: integrating the new algorithms for existing filters in ITK (preparing ITK 3.2)

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Gaetan,

Thanks for suggesting the list.

This will be very useful for the tcon on Friday.


   Regards,


      Luis


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Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:16:03 +0100, Luis Ibanez 
> <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>  wrote:
> 
>> If you have a chance, please take a look at list that Julien put
>> together and list the papers that you see have already enough
>> reviews and that, in your opinion, will be very useful if put
>> in the toolkit. It will be great if you can participate on the
>> tcon this Friday, but if not, at least, we will appreciate to
>> have your list of suggested papers to integrate in ITK 3.2.
>>
> 
> I'll try to be there.
> In any case, here is my list:
> 
> Very useful, clean, well tested, and well known (by me) contributions:
> 
>   The watershed transform in ITK - discussion and new developments
>   MinimaImpositionImageFilter
>   Image projections along an axis
>   Label overlay
>   Finding regional extrema - methods and performance
>   Binary morphological closing and opening image filters
>   FFTShift
> 
> Well, that's Richard's contributions and mine, but that's the one I 
> know  the best, so I'm pretty sure about their quality.
> 
> 
> 
> Very useful, clean, well tested, and well known (by me) existing code  
> enhancement:
> 
>   Improving performance of morphological reconstruction
>   Optimization of connected component labelling
>   Improving features and performance of binary erode and dilate filters
> 
> Still Richard's contributions and one of mine - we must do a very good 
> job  :-)
> 
> 
> 
> The contributions I have done and shouldn't be included (yet) - no need 
> to  spend time on these ones:
> 
>   Slice by slice filtering with ITK - still some work to do
>   Robust Automatic Threshold Selection - need some reviews
>   Kappa Sigma Clipping - lot of non published changes already done, 
> need  more explanations, need some reviews
>   Consolidated morphology - not fully ready
> 
> 
> 
> Contributions I would argue against their integration, despite their  
> quality:
> 
>   Parallel 3D Exact Signed Euclidean Distance Transform, for its 3D  
> limitation
>   Digital Topology, because the connectivity framework need some extra  
> work to support iterators, and to remove the connectivity option from 
> the  template parameter
> 
> 
> 
> For Julien: The following ones are already in the toolkit:
> 
>   itkConnectedComponentFunctorImageFilter
>   N-D Linear Time Exact Signed Euclidean Distance Transform
> 
> 
> Gaetan
>