SimpleITK/Tcon 2010 07 15

Tcon topics 7/15/2010

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Thursday, July 15th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT
(2:30-4:00pm Central).

• General architecture
• Wrapping efficiency
• Should SimpleITK be mixable with normal ITK ?
  • At C++ level ?
  • At WrapITK (Python, Tcl ) level ?
  • Provide access to the underlying ITK image ?
• SimpleImage class
  • Include casting to other image types.
  • Introduce in ITK an itk::ImageBase class that is not templated over Dimension.
• Use Pointer semantics ?
  • image->getDepth() vs image.getDepth()

• What kind of flexibility to provide for Users to add functionalities to SimpleITK
  • It should be easy to write (even if the class is conceptually complex).
  • User says : "I need this data type X..."
    • Then, how hard is for the developer of SimpleITK classes to satisfy the user's request.

• Design a Simple calling convention
  • Procedural-like notation...
  • out = Gaussian().setSigma(2).execute(image)
  • out = Gaussian( image, 2 )
  • Gaussian gaussian( 2 ) // sigma as argument to the constructor
  • gaussian( "Sigma",2, "Width", 2 ); // arguments packed as key,value pair
  • Add introspection to ITK proper
    • All filters provide a list of "Key, Type" pairs
    • SetParameter( "parameterName", parameterValue );