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Welcome to the ISC!

Promoting open science and open-source, freely available software for medical image analysis.

The purpose of ISC is to educate, promote, and support open-source, medical image analysis software, data, and publications. This includes guiding the development of software tools such as ITK; promoting the use of such software in teaching, research, and commercial endeavors; and maintaining web pages and other resources as necessary to insure a vital community of users and developers.

Open Science - The practice of making available all material, software, data, and publications used in scientific research, design, and engineering with the intention of supporting the reuse and reproducibility of research, and to insure that the results of scientific research can be used for educational and commercial purposes.

Open-Source Software - Software that is freely available in source code form. The source code may be accessed, modified, and distributed by any person or organization, commercial or non-commercial.

Open Source Project Management Pitfalls

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An interesting view on the challenges faced by project managers when dealing with the open-source community:

"many Open Source projects fall apart before they see the light of day, mostly due to management reasons. You are receiving this directly from someone who has had an Open Source project disintegrate (by the name of HyperGet) and has had to pick up the pieces, so the common pitfalls listed below are frighteningly genuine and happen to the most motivated of project managers. They all, ultimately, result in developer dropout and thus the death or dormancy of the project."

http://wolphination.com/linux/2007/09/19/open-source-project-management-common-pitfalls/

Posted by aylward on Sunday, November 18 @ 19:56:02 EST (488 reads)
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Open-source Math

General open source news

Quoted from the recently release AMS opinion

"Mathematical software has greatly contributed to mathematical research, enabling exciting advances in mathematics and providing extensive data for conjectures. Perhaps three of the most well-known applications of computation to mathematical research are the resolution of the four-color conjecture by Appel and Haken in 1976 (though it is now reproven with less need for computer verification by N. Robertson, D. P. Sanders, P. D. Seymour and R. Thomas), Thomas Hales’s proof of Kepler’s conjecture, and the formulation of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, which grew out of extensive numerical computation.

Open source software, such as TEX, Mozilla Firefox, and Linux has had a profound effect on computing during the last decade, and we hope that open source mathematical software will have a similar positive impact on mathematics."

Read the full Opinion at:
http://www.ams.org/notices/200710/tx071001279p.pdf

Posted by aylward on Sunday, November 18 @ 14:06:04 EST (530 reads)
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NIH May Require Use of Open-Access Journals

General open source news

"Congress is expected to vote this week on a bill requiring investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to publish research papers only in journals that are made freely available within one year of publication. Until now, repeated efforts to legislate such a mandate have failed under pressure from the well-heeled journal publishing industry and some nonprofit scientific societies whose educational activities are supported by the profits from journals that they publish. Scientists assert that open access will speed innovation by making it easier for them to share and build on each other's findings. The measure is contained in a spending bill that boosts the biomedical agency's effective budget by 3.1%, to $29.8 billion in 2008. The open-access requirement in the bill would apply only during fiscal year 2008; it would need to be renewed in yearly spending bills in the future."
-- Posted on http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/07/2318208

Posted by aylward on Tuesday, November 13 @ 09:59:51 EST (444 reads)
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Open-source Warfare

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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov07/5668

In a rather "interesting" comparison, the author of this paper in IEEE Spectrum, speculates that the tactics used by insurgents in Iraq are similar to the ones used by the Open Source movement, and that the difficulties that the coalition forces are facing are similar to the challenges that monolithic companies like Microsoft are encountering for competing with a more creative and flexible opponent.

On the bright side, the author concludes the paper stating that adopting an "Open Source"-approach to warfare (such as Agile development mentality) may be an appropriate response.

Posted by aylward on Tuesday, November 13 @ 09:59:13 EST (445 reads)
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Luis Ibanez`s talk @ MICCAI Open-Source Workshop is Online

Insight Software Consortium

Title: "Principles and Practices of Scientific Originology"

This presentation is a satire of the current obsession with intellectual property, innovation and originality that plagues the field of medical image analysis.

The presentation makes the point that most Journals and Conferences focus on Originality and despise Reproducibility and Verification, demonstrating great disrespect for the essential elements of the scientific method. The practice of "peer-review" is offered in most cases as an insufficient substitute for the actual verification of reproducibility.

Posted by aylward on Tuesday, November 13 @ 09:58:46 EST (439 reads)
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