Luis and others:
I think this paper is looking pretty good
Some comments:
1) In the header let us make sure that Julien's name is spelled as Jomier
2) In the abstract I would write the first sentence as
The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) is an Open Source software project
being developed under NIH/NIBIB funding. The toolkit will provide a common
platform for implementing image-guided surgery applications and for
fostering research in the field.
3) Note that I always like to include the hyphen on "image-guided"
4) for the last paragraph of the introduction I have the same comments as I
had on Brian's paper which I pasted below my signature for reference
Otherwise it looks pretty good so let's go ahead and submit and see how we
do in the reviews
Kevin
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2) I also agree that we should say in the last paragraph of the introduction
that the software is still in beta form and evolving and we expect a stable
release toward the end of the year. You guys know better than me, but I am
not sure how useful the software is in its current form, although I have no
problem with people checking it out. But I don't want to get people
frustrated with it early in the project.
3) The web site www.igstk.org is not that good right now so I would prefer
to say "Basic information related to igstk can be found at the web site
www.igstk.org and the Wiki pages http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI/".
Sohan originally maintained the web site but he is gone now and I intend to
have the new programmer Patrick Cheng take it over(he starts on Monday but
will need some time to get up to speed).
-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez at kitware.com]
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:42 AM
To: Kevin Cleary; Rick Avila; Julien Jomier; Stephen Aylward; Brian Blake
Cc: igstk-developers at public.kitware.com
Subject: MICCAI - Software Architecture Paper
Hi Kevin,
Here is attached the almost-ready version of the
IGSTK Software Architecture paper for MICCAI.
* The loggin section was updated by
reworking the material from Hee-Su.
* The description of Spatial Objects
and Viewers was added.
* References to FDA documents, VTK, ITK,
FLTK manuals, and to Software Licensing
where also added.
Any comments are welcome,
Thanks
Luis