[Insight-developers] ITK Coursework

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Hans,


Done !


A new Wiki page is now available at:

      http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Course_Ware

It is linked from the "Academic Corner" of the main ITK Wiki page.


Please feel free to add to it or to reorganize it.


   Thanks


      Luis

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Hans Johnson wrote:
> 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(The PDFs may be outdated, try to use the PPT files directly.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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