ANTs feature requests

[ntustison]

This is an open issue soliciting possible feature requests for ANTs. I'll put together a corresponding wiki page where we can flush out some ideas further. Here are some current requests from @stnava and Jim Gee.

Notes from Jim

• massive image registration (histology/microscopy, lung CT)
  • sparse
  • patch based
• lesions/pathology
  • marc/UNC collaborator
  • GUI
• uncertainty
• computing
  • GPU - massive image registration
    • marc/UNC collaborator
  • HPC
• GUI
  • to accommodate processing of lesioned/diseased structures/organs

Notes from Brian

• sparse registration formulation(s)
• piecewise affine / invertible mesh / image deformation ( there is a very efficient implementation used in graphics that would be cool to have )
• improvement, generally and probably with above two points, of feature/point set registration with or w/o images
• sift etc worked out better ....
• efficient timeseries/longitudinal maps ( very expensive to do this now ) - i could really use this here but it's too time / memory consuming
• Similarity metric speed-up with Charlie Epstein

[stnava]

biros has a nice solution : https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03630

i would also note that some of our prior work ( remember that old miccai submission? ) would probably resolve many of these but would have to make clean / fast implementation

[hjmjohnson]

@ntustison FYI: Using task-based parallelliization (rather than thread based paradigm) is an area that I have been recently playing with. Identifying techinques with intel's threaded building blocks and C++11 have been particularly benificial. I recently gained access to 128CPU linux computer, and purchased a P100 GPU and several large memory cluster nodes with the explicit intent of addressing the performance bottle necks in ANTs.

[stnava]

Hans, that is great I also have a similar machine to play around with and can help with testing or possibly coding.

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[ntustison]

Another thought is that all the suggestions and discussions so far have exclusively centered around registration. I wonder if there are other features for the toolkit, as a whole, we should consider. For example, I think the recently introduced denoiser has been a great addition.

[stnava]

yes - i very much appreciate the denoiser.

but probably need to fit all proposed ideas into a unifying theme.

do you have a proposed theme for the grant yet?

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Nick Tustison notifications@github.com wrote:

Another thought is that all the suggestions and discussions so far have exclusively centered around registration. I wonder if there are other features for the toolkit, as a whole, we should consider. For example, I think the recently introduced denoiser has been a great addition.

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[ntustison]

Not yet. I'm meeting with Jim tomorrow and I would assume that he'd have some good input for a unifying theme.

[gdevenyi]

This might be a place for new Github projects https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-announcing-new-tools-forums-and-features