[Insight-developers] FW: itkRobustAutomaticThresholdCalculator

[Stephen Aylward]

The terms "robust" and "automated" are overused in the field - I've learned
to ignore those terms :)

I'd rather use the author's name (like Otsu and ViolaWell and Mattes)

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:19 AM, <M.Staring at lumc.nl> wrote:

> Hi developers,
>
> See the email below on how to name a new class for thresholding.
>
> My preference would still be to have a name that describes what a class is
> doing, without being too general.
>
> What's your opinion?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marius
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gaëtan Lehmann [mailto:gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:13 PM
> > To: Staring, M. (LKEB)
> > Subject: Re: itkRobustAutomaticThresholdCalculator
> >
> >
> > Le 18 févr. 09 à 16:19, <M.Staring at lumc.nl> <M.Staring at lumc.nl> a
> > écrit :
> >
> > > Hi Gaetan,
> > >
> > > I saw you checked in the itk::RobustAutomaticThresholdCalculator.
> > > That seems like a very general name. Maybe it is better to rename
> > > these classes to
> > > itk::GradientWeightedMeanIntensityThresholdCalculator ?
> > >
> > > Otherwise I can never come up with another automatic threshold
> > > selection technique that I find robust :-)
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > You're right, that's a very general name, but that's also a
> > name very
> > close to the name used by the author, and that name seems to be used
> > elsewhere since the first publication in 1985. Several publications
> > refers to that algorithm with that name.
> >
> > My feeling is that we should keep that name, but I have no certitude.
> >
> > There is no hurry, because the classes in Review can be renamed, but
> > if you believe that name can be a problem, can you bring that
> > discussion to the developer mailing list, to have more reactions?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gaëtan
> >
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