[Insight-users] Announcement: ITK Public Meeting

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Asad-

No fees, just the cost of getting there. I have no idea if it will be 
crowded. I'll vouch for you if you come and make sure that you get a seat :-)

Will

At 05:20 PM 6/8/2002 -0400, Asad A. Abu-Tarif wrote:
>Hi,
>Is there any registration or fees? I might be able to go but
>don't want to drive to Boston and not be able to get in :-)
>
>Thanks,
>Asad
>***************************************************************************
>*  Asad A. Abu-Tarif
>*  Computer Engineering.
>*  PhD Candidate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
>*  Web-site: http://asad.ods.org/Professional/
>*  Registration Toolkit: http://asad.ods.org/RegMagicTKDoc/
>*  tarifa@rpi.edu
>***************************************************************************
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Will Schroeder" <will.schroeder@kitware.com>
>To: <insight-users@public.kitware.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:55 PM
>Subject: [Insight-users] Announcement: ITK Public Meeting
>
>
> >
> > ANNOUNCING
> >
> > ITK: The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit Public Presentation
> > When: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:00-5:00pm
> > Where: Auditorium 250, Second Floor Tosteson Medical Education Center
> >              Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
> > Info: www.itk.org
> >
> > The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) is an open source
> > software system supporting the Visible Human Project. ITK was developed by
> > six principal firms (three academic-UNC,U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Utah;
>and
> > three commercial-GE Research, Insightful, Kitware) and funded through The
> > National Library of Medicine at NIH. ITK employs a variety of leading edge
> > segmentation and registration algorithms in 2D, 3D, and more dimensions,
>and
> > is being developed using advanced, distributed software processes. This
> > presentation marks the first formal introduction of ITK to the public.  We
> > will provide a brief history of and motivation for the software, a survey
>of
> > available registration and segmentation algorithms, live demonstrations,
>and
> > an overview of the development environment. We will also discuss some
>early
> > reviews from the ITK community and plans for the future. Developers,
> > Principal Investigators, and NLM project officers will be available for
> > questions after the presentation.
> >
> >
> > Thursday June 13, 2002
> > Schedule of Presentations
> > =========================
> >
> > 2:00 - 3:00 An Introduction to ITK
> >      + Introduction
> >              Goals, objectives, team, relationship to VHP (Visible Human
> > Project)
> >              Validation Effort
> >
> >      + Overview
> >              Architecture, major design decisions, major subsystems
> >              Use of templates/generic programming
> >              Image representation
> >              Mesh Representation
> >
> >      + Registration Algorithms & Framework
> >              Various algorithms and results
> >
> >      + Segmentation Algorithms & Framework
> >              Various algorithms and results
> >
> >      + Future
> >              Upcoming releases, etc.
> >              Annoucement of the Beta2.
> >
> > 3:00 - 4:20 Demonstrations
> >       + Live demos
> >
> > 4:00 - 5:00 Developing with ITK
> >       + Development Environment
> >
> >       + Architectural Features
> >              Memory management (smart pointers, object factories, etc.)
> >              Events (command/observer)
> >              Image Processing (Image, iterators, etc.)
> >              Mesh
> >              Data flow
> >              Image IO
> >
> > 5:00 - Informal Meetings
> >
> > Directions
> >
> > The address is:
> >
> > Tosteson Medical Medical Education Center (T-MEC)
> > 260 Longwood Ave
> > Boston, MA 02115
> >
> > General map and direction information about Harvard Medical School can
> > be found at http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/mapsdir.html .
> >
> > T-MEC is located in Harvard Medical School Quadrangle
> > (http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/maps/quadmap.html) at the intersection
> > of Longwood Ave and Ave Louis Pasteur, at Longwood Medical Area
> > (http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/maps/lmamap.html).
> >
> > By MBTA subway or bus or by car:
> >
> > Subway Green Line (E line Longwood Medical Area stop or D line Longwood
> > stop), bus routes 47, CT2 and 8A will all take you there. For more
> > information on public transportation, and for DRIVING DIRECTIONS, please
> > check http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/direction.html .
> >
> > By M2 shuttle
> >
> > M2 shuttle bus runs between Harvard Yard (Quincy Street outside Lamont
> > Library Gate) and Longwood Medical Area (T-MEC is right across the street
> > from shuttle stop). Harvard GSAS students can take M2 for free. The
> > shuttle also makes stops on the way, including one at MBTA bus stop of
> > MIT's main entrance. The shuttle leaving at 7pm from Harvard Yard will
> > take you there on time. For more information, please check
> > http://www.masco.org/transit/ptsM2.htm .
> >
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