[Insight-developers] SimpleITK Community Survey Draft

[Gabe Hart]

Hi Wes and Alex (and everyone else),

This is an interesting question indeed.  I went ahead and removed the 
"Medical Image Analysis" option from the survey.  Wes, I also made a 
number of the other changes you suggested earlier.  Please let me know 
if you see anything else that should be changed.

Thanks for all the feedback,
-Gabe

On 09/16/2010 03:48 PM, Wes Turner wrote:
> Man not my day to write ... Yes, I meant Alex!  Thanks for being kind! 
> :-)
>
> - Wes
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Alexandre GOUAILLARD 
> <agouaillard at gmail.com <mailto:agouaillard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     he he,
>
>     you meant alex right, not andre?
>
>     anyway, I love this question, because I spent few years wit med.
>     doctors (in hospitals) and then few more years with biologists, and
>     seeing the gap (that I only poorly illustrate in my e-mail before) in
>     their answers always puzzled me.
>
>     I agree with you that it should not be that complicated and just be
>     medical imaging, or bioimaging, or whatever they want it to be as long
>     as they leave the processing to us.
>
>     :)
>
>     alex.
>
>
>     On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Wes Turner
>     <wes.turner at kitware.com <mailto:wes.turner at kitware.com>> wrote:
>     > Andre,
>     > First, very nice note.  I think it lays out the differences
>     nicely.  My
>     > question was more narrowly focused.  What I was saying (poorly)
>     was that we
>     > should jettison Medical Image since both radiology and
>     microscopy can be
>     > medical images and it does not add much additional information
>     to the mix.
>     >  Either that or we could remove both  Medical Imaging and
>     Radiology entirely
>     > and replace them with CT/MRI, PET/SPECT/Nuclear Imaging,
>     X-Ray/Fluoroscopy,
>     > and Ultrasound while leaving microscopy.  Or we can just leave
>     it all the
>     > way it is.
>     > Anyway, thanks again for the response, I promise not to use it in a
>     > religious war.
>     > - Wes
>     >
>     > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Alexandre GOUAILLARD
>     > <agouaillard at gmail.com <mailto:agouaillard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> hi wes,
>     >>
>     >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Wes Turner
>     <wes.turner at kitware.com <mailto:wes.turner at kitware.com>>
>     >> wrote:
>     >> > Gabe,
>     >> > Background Questinos:
>     >> > Question 1:
>     >> > I'm not sure how Microscopy and Radiology differ from Medical
>     Image
>     >> > Analysis
>     >> > ...
>     >>
>     >> Here some point of views on what the answer can be. Be carefull
>     some
>     >> of those answer can start religious wars :-)
>     >>
>     >> - microscopy would mainly be used by biologists / radiology by
>     Med. Dr
>     >> (not the same community of users).  "BioImaging" would englobe both
>     >> fields, while Medical Imaging would only refer to the latest.
>     >>
>     >> - microscopy images are made by microscopes | radiology use
>     scanners
>     >> (different hardware)
>     >>
>     >> - medical images are usually relatively small images, greyscale
>     >> (pixeltype), and in majority do not have time (exception here:
>     cardiac
>     >> CT, ultrasound, ...) whereas microscopy can be 2D, 3D, 2D+t,
>     3D+t, and
>     >> each image can be an image of vectors (pixeltype). up to
>     terabyte per
>     >> experiment. that makes the question of the types very relevant, as
>     >> well as the question of the images fitting into ram.
>     >>
>     >> - objects contained in medical images tends to come in small number
>     >> (usually one organ) and are relatively big compared to the size
>     of the
>     >> image. Microscopy images usually contains numerous targets, small
>     >> compared to the size of the images (cells, colonies of e-coli,
>     ...).
>     >> Algorithms are/should be different.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > Wesley D. Turner, Ph.D.
>     > Kitware, Inc.
>     > Technical Leader
>     > 28 Corporate Drive
>     > Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>     > Phone: 518-881-4920
>     >
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Wesley D. Turner, Ph.D.
> Kitware, Inc.
> Technical Leader
> 28 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4920

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