The Insight Journal

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NAMIC and

The Insight Journal

NAMIC Software Process

Algorithm Developer

SoftwareEngineer

Insight Journal Paper

Programming Week

Phone / IMCollaboration

Subversion/CVSSandbox

Bottomless Pit ofUseless Research

ITK / VTKSlicer

Wiki ProjectPage

The Insight Journal

In Traditional Journals…

What You See

is What You Get

In fact…

That is the ONLY

thing you get

Last time we tried to share

image data in a Journal…

We were told, that the

only file formats they

could distribute were:

PowerPoint, Word and Excel…

First we laughed…

Then we cried

Does somebody here

has a Floppy ?

Does somebody here

has a USB Key ?

Intellectual

Property

OPEN

ACCESS

Success Story

C. R. Maurer, Jr., R. Qi, and V. Raghavan

"A Linear Time Algorithm for Computing Exact Euclidean Distance Transforms of Binary Images in Arbitrary Dimensions“

IEEE - Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

25(2): 265-270, 2003

2002-2003

Success Story

2006

– University of Iowa

– Hans Johnson & Vamsi Jammalamadaka

– Atlas-Based Segmentation

– Bottle neck: Distance map computation

– Future work: try Maurer’s published method

Success Story

February 17 2006

9:26 email about new Insight Journal submission

12:30 print and read documentation while

12:45 download source code, replace method in their

application and compile it

13:00 run on one dataset

Success Story

February 17 2006

13:03 curse because it could not have possible

be computed in only 3 minutes

13:10 Compare with previous results: Do dance of joy

because new results are nearly the same as the old ones

16:00 Write an Insight Journal review

40 minutes of IJ

has more impact than

3 years of IEEE-PAMI

The Insight Journal

Technical work must be reproducible

Papers should be publicly accessible

Fully Electronic publishing

Not limited to ITK

Brought to you by ISC

The Insight Journal

Reproducibility requires sharing

– Source code

– Images

– Parameters

Open source

– Existing algorithms provide services

– New algorithms should be made available to others

Image Processing Method

AlgorithmInput

Image(s)

Parameters

OutputImage(s)

Submission for the IJ

Code

InputData

JournalRepository

WebSite

ResultsData

Author

BuildMachines

PDF doc

Insight JournalManager

Author

SubmitsProject

DSpace

StoresProject

AutomaticTesting

Environment

PostsResults

Dashboard

SubmitsEntry

Reviewer

ReviewsProject

Process Flow

SendsCode

Benefits of the Insight Journal Allows sharing your Source Code

– Faster and larger impact on the community

Immediate feedback from Readers and Reviewers

– Open Dialog / Forum

No Limitations

– No page limitations

– No limit or charges for color figures

– Accepting additional electronic material

Benefits of the Insight Journal Indexed by Google

Post revisions of papers and code

Richer readers experience

– Source code available

– Original parameters and images available

– Reader can try on their own data

Accepts practical contributions

– complimentary to full Journal Papers

Benefits of the Insight Journal No Time Constraints

– Continuous submission process

– Continuous peer-review

– Continuous submission of revision (paper/code)

Thanks to not using Paper !

http://www.Insight-Journal.org

• Comparison of output images

• Publicly available

• Tests for non-trivial images

• Reviewers and readers can use it as a first view of the paper.

Results Verification