[Insight-developers] ITK Coursework

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Hans,


I would suggest you to use the following material:

   InsightDocuments/CourseWare/Training

     GettingStarted-I.ppt
     GettingStarted-II.ppt
     GettingStarted-III.ppt
     GettingStarted-IV.ppt
     GettingStarted-VI.ppt
     GettingStarted-VI.ppt
     GettingStarted-VII.ppt
     GettingStarted-VIII.ppt


I have updated them recently... (October 2007).

(The PDFs may be outdated, try to use the PPT files directly.
  Also, the PPT files have a lot of animations, so try to look
  at them in presentation mode).



then complement this with the material of the ITK Advanced course
that we gave at EPFL. This material is available in the NAMIC Sandbox:

   http://www.na-mic.org/svn/NAMICSandBox/trunk/ITKAdvancedCourse/

The "src" directory contains simple exercises that are
referred from the presentations in the "doc" directory.

This included deformable registration, how to create
new filtes, multi-threading and ITK patterns.


Combnining these presentations, there is enough material here
for about 40 to 50 hours of seesions, depending on how detailed
you teach the exercises. (There are 37 exercises).


Also, I would *suggest* to include a bit of teaching about
copyright laws, licensing and open source principles.

You could reuse the material we created for the Open Source Course
at RPI:

http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Main_Page

See the course notes:

http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Course_notes


 From the Image Registration course that we presented at RPI with
Charles Stewart, we have additional specialized material for
Deformable registration.  Part of this material already percolated
into the advanced course that we presented at EPFL.


It will be great to include student projects in your course,
and to have those projects posted to the Insight Journal.

We did this for the RPI open source course. It is a great way
of getting "feature requests" implemented and to give students
a taste of real image processing work, including the joy of
finding parameters.  :-)


For the RPI course we created a special issue in the Insight
Journal.

See the first entry in:
http://www.insight-journal.org/InsightJournalManager/journals.php

Students submitted their projects, and other students performed
peer-review, by actually replicating the results.


This exercise also teaches students about *real* peer-review
and the correct practice of *reproducibility*. That may save
your students from being corrupted with the "publish or perish"
decadent mentality of our field, and will give them an opportunity
of understanding how the *real scientific method* works.


Please let me know if you have difficulties finding any of
the material.


     Thanks


        Luis



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Hans Johnson wrote:
> Hello ITK Developers,
> 
> The University of Iowa Biomedical Engineering department is working on
> modifications to their medical imaging course to be taught next spring.
> There is a good possibility that they will switch to using ITK for the basis
> of their projects.
> 
> I know that there were course materials generated during one of the A2D2
> projects by CMU a few years ago, but I can not find any of the materials.  I
> know that I saw the power point presentations and other class materials at
> one point, additionally there is reference to the materials being in
> InsightDocuments in the publication " Teaching medical image analysis with
> the Insight Toolkit, Damion Shelton, George Stetten, Stephen Aylward, Luis
> Ibanez, Aaron Cois and Charles Stewart"
> 
> Any assistance on finding these (or similar) materials would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Hans
> 
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