[Insight-developers] Fast distance transform - how do I get it into ITK?

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Benjamin,

This is great news.

Thanks for your willingness to share your improved code
with the ITK community.

The decision on whether to submit it as a new paper
or as a revision to your current paper comes down
to how much the code changed.

If the changes are optimizations in the internal
implementation, I will suggest to post it as a revision
of you current paper.

One advantage of this option versus posting a new paper,
is that your current paper already got good reviews, so
you won't have to wait for a new paper to be reviewed.


       Regards,


             Luis


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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Benjamin King <benjaminking at web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Apologies first: After submitting a paper on a fast and general distance
> transform to the Insight Journal (http://hdl.handle.net/1926/196), I have
> left the field of medical image processing.  I took a look at the promising
> reviews from time to time but didn't really have the resources to adress
> them properly. So my apologies to all reviewers who waited for feedback. I
> didn't mean to be rude.
>
> This summer, however, I have spent some time to revisit the code. Among
> other things, the new version uses L1 cache more efficiently and uses
> multiple processors when compiled with OpenMP support.
>
> The filter is now 20 to 30 times faster than
> DanielssonDistanceMapImageFilter on an Intel Core2 CPU. Without using OpenMP
> it still achieves a speedup of 12 to 17 times.
>
> I have measured this for image sizes ranging from 136x136x121 to
> 512x512x348, so there is no degradation in performance for large images any
> more.
>
> Given the current efforts to support microscopy image analysis with ITK4, I
> see also a possibility that more users might have use for the group
> morphology filter that becomes possible (see section 4.5 in the original
> paper).
>
> I'd really by happy if this code would make it into ITK, but I wonder on
> how to proceed.
>
> Should I submit a new paper to InsightJournal?
> Or rather post the new code as a revision to the old one?
> Or just post it here to the developers list for further inspection?
>
> I'd be happy if anyone could give me some advice on this.
>
>
> Cheers,
>  Benjamin
>
> PS: I'm now developing software for railway companies, and I'm not
> affiliated with Hannover Medical School any more.
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