[Insight-developers] ITK Coursework

[Hans Johnson]

Luis,

Thanks.  Could this go in the ITK WIKI page along with a link to the
materials by Damion Shelton (or better yet a permanent replication of of
Damion's presentations in InsightDocuments, Damion Shelton's lectures are
at  http://www.vialab.org/methods_course/index_old.html).  These are such
great resources, and I think that developing and advertising a repository of
teaching materials would be helpful to the group.

In this case, several Biomedical and Electrical engineering professors came
to me for advice on how to incorporate ITK into their classes.  I provided
them with the InsightDocuments repsitory right away, but it needs an index
like you provided below.  I looked around for a few hours, and resorted to
sending e-mails to you.

>From the ITK wiki, I did searches for "Teaching", "Courses", "Class
Materials", and even "InsightDocuments", but did not find anything that
seemed appropriate for getting started.

If you make a page on the WIKI, I will start collecting information that
will help someone generating a college course in Medical Image Processing
pull the correct resources together.

Hans
    


On 12/8/07 5:22 PM, "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Hans,
> 
> 
> I would suggest you to use the following material:
> 
>    InsightDocuments/CourseWare/Training
> 
>      GettingStarted-I.ppt
>      GettingStarted-II.ppt
>      GettingStarted-III.ppt
>      GettingStarted-IV.ppt
>      GettingStarted-VI.ppt
>      GettingStarted-VI.ppt
>      GettingStarted-VII.ppt
>      GettingStarted-VIII.ppt
> 
> 
> I have updated them recently... (October 2007).
> 
> (The PDFs may be outdated, try to use the PPT files directly.
>   Also, the PPT files have a lot of animations, so try to look
>   at them in presentation mode).
> 
> 
> 
> then complement this with the material of the ITK Advanced course
> that we gave at EPFL. This material is available in the NAMIC Sandbox:
> 
>    http://www.na-mic.org/svn/NAMICSandBox/trunk/ITKAdvancedCourse/
> 
> The "src" directory contains simple exercises that are
> referred from the presentations in the "doc" directory.
> 
> This included deformable registration, how to create
> new filtes, multi-threading and ITK patterns.
> 
> 
> Combnining these presentations, there is enough material here
> for about 40 to 50 hours of seesions, depending on how detailed
> you teach the exercises. (There are 37 exercises).
> 
> 
> Also, I would *suggest* to include a bit of teaching about
> copyright laws, licensing and open source principles.
> 
> You could reuse the material we created for the Open Source Course
> at RPI:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> See the course notes:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Course_notes
> 
> 
>  From the Image Registration course that we presented at RPI with
> Charles Stewart, we have additional specialized material for
> Deformable registration.  Part of this material already percolated
> into the advanced course that we presented at EPFL.
> 
> 
> It will be great to include student projects in your course,
> and to have those projects posted to the Insight Journal.
> 
> We did this for the RPI open source course. It is a great way
> of getting "feature requests" implemented and to give students
> a taste of real image processing work, including the joy of
> finding parameters.  :-)
> 
> 
> For the RPI course we created a special issue in the Insight
> Journal.
> 
> See the first entry in:
> http://www.insight-journal.org/InsightJournalManager/journals.php
> 
> Students submitted their projects, and other students performed
> peer-review, by actually replicating the results.
> 
> 
> This exercise also teaches students about *real* peer-review
> and the correct practice of *reproducibility*. That may save
> your students from being corrupted with the "publish or perish"
> decadent mentality of our field, and will give them an opportunity
> of understanding how the *real scientific method* works.
> 
> 
> Please let me know if you have difficulties finding any of
> the material.
> 
> 
>      Thanks
> 
> 
>         Luis
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------
> Hans Johnson wrote:
>> Hello ITK Developers,
>> 
>> The University of Iowa Biomedical Engineering department is working on
>> modifications to their medical imaging course to be taught next spring.
>> There is a good possibility that they will switch to using ITK for the basis
>> of their projects.
>> 
>> I know that there were course materials generated during one of the A2D2
>> projects by CMU a few years ago, but I can not find any of the materials.  I
>> know that I saw the power point presentations and other class materials at
>> one point, additionally there is reference to the materials being in
>> InsightDocuments in the publication " Teaching medical image analysis with
>> the Insight Toolkit, Damion Shelton, George Stetten, Stephen Aylward, Luis
>> Ibanez, Aaron Cois and Charles Stewart"
>> 
>> Any assistance on finding these (or similar) materials would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> Hans
>> 
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