[Insight-developers] Proposed KernelTransform API Change

[Vincent A. Magnotta]

Stephen,

My original proposal was to change the API for SetParameters() to return
both the source and target landmarks. However, maybe a better solution
would be to make the  Get and Set methods for the FixedParameters to
return the the target landmarks. Since these functions do not currently
exist for the Kernel Transform, no API changes would be required. This
would also allow the Kernel Transform to support the TransformFileReader
and TransformFileWriter I/O mechanism. 

Vince



On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:14, Stephen R. Aylward wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We need to talk about this a bit.   We use these classes heavily in 
> several of our applications.   We have already developed IO methods for 
> them.
> 
> Can you provide more details on what you would like to do?   Where will 
> the API changes be?   What will be the changes to parameter ordering etc?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stephen
> 
> Vincent A. Magnotta wrote:
> > I am looking into making the KernelTransform classes work with the
> > Transform I/O mechanism. Currently, these functions only set the source
> > landmarks as the parameters. This does not completely specify the
> > transform. I would propose that the parameters specify both the source
> > and target landmarks. The current approach seems to done to support
> > optimizers in the registration process. I have looked and could not find
> > any use of this functionality. If anyone has any thoughts on this, feel
> > free to let me know. I will make this change by Wednesday unless there
> > are objections.
> > 
> > Vince
> > 
> > 
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