[Insight-developers] Re: Submission of a filter not using ImageToImageFilter as base class

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Sonali,

The Quad Mesh taking longer than expected to be introduced
in the toolkit.

It will be great to see an alternative implementation of
Dijkstras algorithm. Please consider submitting this to the
Insight Journal.

Are you refering to the itkGraph that was submitted along
with the graph cuts paper to the IJ ?

If so, please note that there are also some intellectual
property issues that are preventing us to include that code
in the ITK toolkit.


   Regards,


       Luis


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Sonali Barua wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had developed a Dijkstras algorithm using itkGraph structure but I
> noticed that there is a submission for a quad tree Mesh class using
> Dijkstra;s algorithm. I was wondering if that would be considered as a
> repetition of code?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Sonali Barua.
> 
> On 5/13/07, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Sonali
>>
>> It is not a requirement that the submissions to
>> the Insight Journal must read an image and write
>> an image.
>>
>> The fundamental point is that the submissions
>>
>>       *MUST demonstrate reproducibility*.
>>
>> That is, for example, if your contribution takes
>> as input two images and one XML file, in order to
>> compute as output a histogram and a vector. What
>> we want to verify is that if we compile and run
>> your source code, passing to it your same input,
>> we will obtain the same output histogram and vector.
>>
>> Applications can be submitted to the Journal, we
>> have already received several applications. The
>> point again is that your submission must have
>> instructions on how any reader could *REPEAT*
>> exactly what you are reporting.
>>
>> The ideal mechanism could be something like a
>> step by step list of instructions saying:
>>
>> 1) start the application
>> 2) Load input image X1
>> 3) Load input image X2
>> 4) In the menu XX, set the parameter YY to 3.5
>> 5) Select the checkbox TTT to the value KK
>> ...
>> 6) Click on the button "compute"
>> 7) Save the histogram using the menu "file"
>>
>>
>> With such a clear list of instruction we could
>> expect readers (and reviewers) to *REPEAT EXACTLY*
>> what you have done on your side.
>>
>>
>> In some cases, it is possible to automate this
>> sequence of steps by providing scripts that run
>> the application. I don't know if your application
>> can be run in this way.
>>
>>
>> In you keep in mind that the final goal of the
>> Insight Journal is to resuscitate the practice of
>> verifying reproducibility, then, it should be
>> clear what the content of a submission might be.
>>
>> In the ideal case, we would prefer to have applications
>> that allow to run an automatic session to verify
>> reproducibility, but, if that's not possible, we
>> will be happy to see a clear list of instructions
>> on how to manually re-run such session.
>>
>>
>> Please let us know if you have further questions
>>
>>
>>      Thanks
>>
>>
>>         Luis
>>
>>
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>> Sonali Barua wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have developed some graph classes for itk and I noticed in your
>> > submission criterions that the classes have to read in an image and
>> > output an image or rather have real world application. I will be
>> > submitting one application to ITK and it will use just one of the
>> > classes. The others however I just have small examples written that
>> > aren't real world. When you say real world, do you expect the
>> > application to be on medical data alone?
>> >
>> > I appreciate your time in considering my queries,
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > Sonali Barua.
>> >
>>
>