November 2024 Cycle Report

Published 5 Nov. 2024

Workshop preparation

This Thursday (November 7th), we’re hosting our first challenge-oriented workshop. The RSE team has been hard at work preparing for this session, including planning and conducting a test run, to ensure a smooth experience for all participants. The workshop is designed to give potential challenge organizers hands-on experience with hosting a challenge on our platform. Although this session has reached maximum capacity, you can still sign up to be notified about future workshops.

Algorithm Template Feature

In this cycle, we’re introducing a new feature that enables algorithm developers to download a ZIP archive containing templates customized for their algorithms. This archive includes essential resources to streamline the development of algorithm images, such as:

  • Bash scripts and Dockerfiles for setting up a local development environment.
  • Python code demonstrating input and output handling.
  • Guidelines for accessing PyTorch CUDA features.

This functionality is designed to support algorithm developers with pre-built components and examples, allowing them to focus on core logic development rather than setup details.

Algorithm developers can find the templates via Templates -> Download Algorithm Image Template:

Markdown editor improvements

When editing challenge pages, the (markdown) text editor and the preview of the page are now shown side by side. This makes it easier to edit a page - especially when it contains a lot of content. The preview updates live and can be aligned manually, so the preview of the part that is being edited can be shown right next to it. Updating the page title, permissions, visibility and rank can be done in the new Update metadata section, which can be reached with the following button:

PS All markdown editors on the site now display the text in monospace, making indentations a whole lot easier to see, manage and adjust.

Add multiple overlays to a single viewport and switch between them in reader studies

We've extended the overlay support in reader studies. Multiple overlays can now be added to a single viewport by adding them as display items to the display set and then linking them to the viewport by defining them in the view content. When more than one overlay is available for any viewport, the OverlayPlugin will be shown in the sidebar. The user can switch between overlays by using the dropdown in the plugin. The overlay alpha and LUT can also be set separately for each viewport in the plugin.

MeVisLab updated to version 4.0.2

We updated our development MeVisLab version to 4.0.2 so that can stay up to date and use the latest and greatest features. One highlight is the switch to webp image compression which should lead to increased performance of CIRRUS for everyone.

Cover photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash

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