ITK/Survey of Toolkit Impact

The ISC is interested in measuring the impact that ITK has had in the community. For this purpose we are drafting a survey to be sent to the developers and users list. The current proposed questions are listed below.

Please send any suggestions for additional survey questions to the developers list.

1. How many people in your institution use ITK ?
2. For how long have you used ITK ?
3. How many publications have benefited from your use of ITK ?
4. Have you contributed code to ITK ?
5. Have ITK make possible for you to undertake specific projects that you wouldn't have done if ITK wasn't available ?
6. Have you made use of the Insight Software Guide ?
7. Have you made use of the ITK online tutorials ?
8. Have you attended ITK courses ?
9. Have you used ITK in commercial applications ?
10. How many algorithms have you used from ITK
11. How many segmentation tasks have you solved with the help of ITK?
12. How many registration tasks have you solved with the help of ITK?
13. Have you integrated ITK into existing solutions?
14. Have you written new solutions using ITK?
15. Have you cited the role/utility of ITK during talks / presentations?
16. Have you recommended ITK to others?
17. Have you used ITK for basic research?
18. Have you used ITK for applied (yet non-clinical) research?
19. Have you used ITK in clinical research?
20. Have you used ITK in applications you have given to others?
21. Have you used ITK to develop preliminary data for grant proposals?
22. Have you used ITK in NIH funded work?
23. Have you used ITK in NSF funded work?
24. Has ITK enabled you to get new/additional funding for your research?
25. Has the time spent learning ITK cost more or less than your benefits from ITK?
26. When considering a new problem, what percentage of the time do you consider the use of methods in ITK for the solution?
27. When considering a new problem, what percentage of the time do you think ITK would be able to contribute to the solution?
28. How many times have you posted questions to the users' list?
29. What percent of your questions posted to the users' list have been answered?
30. What is your favorite color?