ITK/Release 4 Planning

ITK Version 4

This work is supported by ARRA funding from the NLM. The kick-off meeting for this project took place from June 28-July 2 2010 in Bethesda. A beta version of the software will be available by the end of March 2011. Bug fixes will continue to be contributed to the ITK version 3 code.

LICENSE Change

Starting with ITKv4-Alpha-01, the ITK toolkit is distributed under the Apache 2.0 License.

More details here:

• Licensing

Revision Control

• Adopt a modern revision control system
  • Move from cvs to git for distributed source code management

Code Review

• Adopt a code review system
  • Gerrit
  • Gerrit primer
  • powered by gerrit

Modern C++

• Take advantage of advances in C++
  • Target popular compilers that are compatible with the C++98 and/or C++03 standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B03#Language_standard).
  • Specifically remove support for Visual Studio prior to 7.1 (e.g., 6 and 7.0), Borland version 5.5, Sun Studio compilers prior to 5.9, IRIX compilers, MWORKS compilers, and gcc prior to 3.4

Wrapping

• Improved ITK Wrapping at the class level (WrapITK)
  • Wrapping
  • Particularly for Python 2.x, Python 3, Java and C#

Simplify

• Addition of Simple ITK Layer

Modularize

• Refactor for Modularity
  • ITKCore, ITKRegistrationModule, and Optional Modules

Improve Software Process

• Enhanced project management tools and software processes

Data Management

• Better management for Testing Data

Distributed Testing (cdash@home)

• Testing On Demand cdash@home

Testing Framework

• New unit testing framework based on Google Test
  • Particularly to support module development, testing, and maintenance

Revise

FEM

• Refactoring itk::FEM framework - V4

Level Sets

• Refactoring Level-Set framework - V4

DICOM

• Improved DICOM support
  • DICOM
  • Including communications with PACS
  • Support Streaming interface
  • Add filter to support Siemens MOSAIC images
  • Information Object Definition verification

Image Registration Framework

• Enhancing Image Registration Framework

Spatial Objects

• Spatial Object Refactoring project page

Accelerate

GPU

• GPU Acceleration - V4
  • With support for distributed computing in the future

• GPU Acceleration - V4 (deprecated link)

The Team

The Team

Wish List

Wish List

Migration Plan (Developers)

Migration Plan

Migration Guide (for Users)

Users Migration Guide

Software Guide (Update)

Software Guide Update

A2D2 Projects

A2D2 Projects

New Fields

ITKv4 will provide improved support for

• Video
• Microscopy
• Remote Sensing

Discussion Points

Discussion Points

Outreach

Outreach