ITK Release 4/ReleaseSchedules

Plan

Projects missing from ITK-v4.0

• DICOM/DCMTK (March 2012?)
• GPU (March 2012?)
• Documentation?
• Registration (March 2012)
• Level Sets with Meshes (March 2012)
• H&E microscopy classes (March 2012)

Projects delivered at the end of ITK-v4/ITK-A2D2-2010

• Education curriculum (CMU, June 2012)
• Documentation (June 2012)
• SCORE, SCORE++ (June 2012)
• Cardiac modeling (June 2012)
• Brain shift (June 2012)
• Lung Lesion Sizing Toolkit (June 2012)
• Accelerated registration? (June 2012)
• Accelerated level sets? (June 2012)

Freeze November 1, 2011

• Time for 2 two-week sprints in October
• Propose 4 one-week sprints?
• More hackathons?

ITK-v4.0

• One week to clean the dashboard
• Tag ITK-v4.0-release-candidate-1, November 8, 2011
• Tag ITK-v4.0-release-candidate-2, November 15, 2011
• Tag ITK-v4.0-release-candidate-3, November 22, 2011
• Tag ITK-v4.0-release-candidate-4, December 6, 2011
• Tag ITK-v4.0-release-candidate-5, December 13, 2011
• Tag ITK-v4.0, December 20, 2011

ITK-v4.0.1

• January 20, 2012 -- cancelled -- lack of release branch commits

ITK-v4.1

• March 2012
• Freeze February 3, 2012?
  • One week to clean the dashboard
  • Cycle of 5 or 6 release candidates.

ITK-v4.2

• June 2012
• All New Code should be in Gerrit by May 21th, preferable before, to allow time to review and revise.
  • Reviewers should plan time to review this week
• Feature Freeze May 28, 2012
• Weekly Release candidates only to address bug and clean dashboard
  • ITKv4.2.0rc1 June 1st, 2012
  • ITKv4.2.0rc2 June 15st, 2012
  • ITKv4.2.0rc3 June 22nd, 2012

* ITKv4.2.0 release July 6th, 2012

API Freeze

Moratorium on ITK-v4 API changes - June 2012?

• Freeze API June 2012
• Manage expectations with documentation
  • Methods refactored from ITK 3.20 are unlikely to change
  • Methods new to ITK-v4 are subject to change until June 2012

Subsequent Numbering

Proposed Numbering

• 4.3 September
• 4.4 December

Alpha 6/15/2011

To be in the Alpha release that will be tagged on 6/15/2011, items must be in the main repository on 6/13/2011.

GPU

In the main repository

• GPUContextManager, GPUDataManager, GPUImage, GPUImageDataManager, GPUImageToImageFilter, GPUKernelManager, GPUMeanImageFilter

On Gerrit

• GPUInPlaceImageFilter, GPUFiniteDifferenceImageFilter, GPUDenseFiniteDifferenceImageFilter, GPUAnisotropicDiffusionImageFilter, GPUUnaryFunctorImageFilter, GPUFiniteDifferenceFunction, GPUBinaryThresholdImageFilter, GPUGradientAnistropicDIffusionImageFilter, GPUGradientNDAnisotropicDiffusionImageFilter, GPUPDEDeformableRegistrationFilter, GPUDemonsRegistrationFilter

SimpleITK

In the main repository

The SimpleITK repository is hosted by Kitware, independent of ITK. https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK is the public repo, with development hosted http://itk.org/SimpleITK.git.

• Many BasicFilters, including support for morphology, filtering, label maps
• Infrastructure for processing the product of 2D, 3D & scalar, vector & signed, unsigned & char, short, int, float, double, complex float, complex double
  • 19 pixel types, 2D and 3D images

On Gerrit

See Jira for details.

Almost ready

• Registration
• C++, Python, Java packaging

Review

On Gerrit

• Review/refactoring/reconciling of Statistics/DecisionRules
• Review/refactoring of Statistics/MembershipFunctions
• Review of BioCell
• Review of Classifiers
• Review of Common
• Review of Edge Detection
• Review of Eigen methods
• Review of ImageAdaptors
• Review of ImageFilterBase
• Review of MetaSpatialObjects
• Review of Neural Networks
• Review of Smoothing

Release Candidate 11/2011

Dates TBD

GPU

Almost ready

• GaussianFilter, MedianFilter