SimpleITK/Survey 1

Survey Questions

Questions

• Opening Statement
  • What is ITK: The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis. Developed through extreme programming methodologies over the past 10+ years, ITK employs leading-edge algorithms for registering and segmenting multi-dimensional data. See http://www.itk.org for more details.
  • Why SimpleITK: The Insight community wants to make the toolkit easier to learn and use. With this in mind a working group has been formed to create "SimpleITK": a layer of abstraction around core ITK functionality accessible from your favorite programming/scripting language(s).
  • Why we need you to answer these questions: Please answer the following survey to help make SimpleITK what you -- and other professionals -- really need.

• Introductory questions
  • In what domain do you work? (eg. radiology, surgery, astronomy, manufacturing)
  • Have you previously used ITK? yes/no. If yes, for how many years?
    • Have you used the pipeline feature of ITK (how useful? Easy to use? How understandable?)
    • Have you used the streaming feature of ITK (how useful? Easy to use? How understandable?)
  • What is your preferred programming language(s)
    • python
    • java
    • C#
    • R
    • Lua
    • Ruby
    • Perl
    • Other
  • What programming tools do you use
    • Matlab
    • OpenCV
    • VTK
    • ImageJ
    • Image Magick
    • Boost Generic Image Library (GIL)
  • What type of programmer are you (EDIT)
    • Script
    • Small App
    • Large App

• Body Questions
  • Do you need to process images that are larger than RAM
  • How many dimensions do you need for your images (eg. 1, 2, 3, 3+t, etc)
  • How important are color images to you
  • How important are these pixel types to you
    • ... options ...
    • Make sure to include RGB
  • What other tools / APIs would you want adapters for [simple example]
    • R
    • OpenCV
    • NumPy
    • Java
    • Matlab
    • VTK
  • How important is:
    • One line registration calls
    • Customize registration options (metric, optimizer, interpolation...)
  • What functions of ITK are you most interested in?
    • Registration (deformable, image-to-image, model-to-image)
    • Segmentation (level sets, etc...)
    • Convert images
    • Simple image manipulation (filtering)
  • What programming style do you prefer
    • procedural [simple Gaussian filter example]
    • object oriented
    • both
  • How important is it to have a pipeline system?
  • Simplicity -vs- Performance relative importance
  • Target devices
    • Netbook
    • Laptop
    • Desktop
    • Workstation
  • Preferred operating system
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
  • How long it takes to build SimpleITK (how important)
  • Comfort with compiling
  • Binary distribution (careful phrasing... ready-to-use download vs source code compilation)

• Closing Questions
  • What image processing functionality do you find most important in a toolkit (future wishlist)?

Target Audience

Ask someone from each community to forward the survey. Host on Insight Software Consortium

• ITK Users list
• VTK Users List
• SIM [Jesus]
• OpenCV
• vxl
• Osyrix
• Slicer
• Microscopy [Sean Megason]
• SPIE
• MICCAI workshop
• NITRC
• Orfeo (remote sensing)
• UNC MIDAG group
• IEEE medical image list (biomedical image society, image processing society) [Stephen]
• LinkedIn groups

[SENT TO]

• ITK Users List
• Xenios Papademetris - Yale University
• v3d-workgroup
• Orfeo toolbox
• C++ Users on LinkedIn
• R imaging group
• Slicer

Older Surveys

• http://www.itk.org/Wiki/2006_Survey_Summary
• http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Survey_of_Toolkit_Impact