[Insight-developers] LSQR Conversion Status (ITK 3.18)

[Luis Ibanez]

A quick update on the status of the LSQR code issue.


1) We contacted Professor Michael Saunders (Stanford)
    regarding the lsqr method currently available in vxl,
    that was taken from the netlib.org site.

    He indicated that a BSD-licensed version of this code
    is available in the web site:

    http://www.stanford.edu/group/SOL/software.html

    (Just as Tom Vercauteren had pointed out).


2) We have not received any answer from the editor of
    ACM TOMS, nor from the contact person at ACM on
    licensing issues.


3) Following the advice of Professor Saunders, we are
    adopting the Fortran90 (2) version of the lsqr solver
    available at the SOL web site.


4) We are currently converting this code to C++.
    This is being done in the following NAMICSandbox
    directory:

http://svn.na-mic.org/NAMICSandBox/trunk/SparseLinearSolverConversion/



The current plan is

   A) To finish this conversion to C++
   B) Integrate the resulting class as a linear solver in ITK
   C) Cut the release ITK 3.18.


All comments are welcome,


    Thanks


         Luis