CTK-Roadmap
This page contains the roadmap for the core CTK effort. It is intended as a guideline for participants to decide whether their intended contributions fit into the CTK core. Beginning in 2012, CTK events are open to all who are willing to comply with the following two conditions:
- Participate for the entire event (no one-day stands)
- Qualifications and intent to write code for the CTK core roadmap (code writers only).
2011
- This roadmap was developed during the Sophia Antipolis 2011 Hackfest
- The roadmap is based on an earlier version which can be found here and ideas for an overview which can be found here.
Overview
The goal of CTK is to support biomedical image computing. Other application areas can benefit from CTK, but needs of other domains will not guide the selection of CTK priorities (efforts to sway development in support of more generalized goals will be resisted).
The tools used in CTK are Qt, DCMTK, CMake, C++, and Python. Other relevant technologies will be considered but are unlikely to be included. Some support for ITK, VTK, OpenInventor, and related toolkits is supported in terms of adapters and interfaces but CTK is not a place to house, for example, a set of algorithms implemented in ITK.
CTK code is licensed under Apache 2.0. Absolutely no GPL code belongs in CTK.
CTK works on topics that are not covered by existing toolkits that support the mutual interest and needs of the CTK community. The scope of current CTK efforts includes:
- Medical and visualization customizations of Qt in the form of widgets, testing, and support code
- DICOM Networking including Qt wrappers around DCMTK
- DICOM Application Hosting
- Build system to support CTK
- PythonQt and related support
- Plugin Framework
- EventBus
Topics other than those listed above may be considered in the future if they meet the 'mutual interest and need' criterion -- anything that is too specialized or application specific does not belong in CTK.
The scope of CTK does not include:
- CTK does not do GPU computing
- CTK does not implement image processing algorithms
- CTK only supports the technologies explicitly called out above -- some of us may love ObjectiveC or Lua, but they have no place in CTK
Short Term Action Items
The community can expect the following from CTK:
CTK will deliver an integrated set of DICOM Networking and Application Hosting widgets, libraries, demo programs and related support to developers of biomedical image computer applications using tools that are compatible with the CT.
During 2012, CTK expects to deliver ___________.
Note: See milestone page on github: https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/milestones
