View source for 2012 Summer Project Week Breakout Session:Ultrasound

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=Objective=

We discuss how to use 3D Slicer in ultrasound (US)-guided interventions. Our goal is to identify common functions in these applications and create a platform from them in 3D Slicer.

=Agenda (tentative)=

* Temporal and spatial calibration of tracked US probes using PLUS (Csaba)
* Real time US display in Slicer to guide interventions (Tamas)
* Perk Tutor: A configurable, Slicer-based training platform for ultrasound-guided needle insertions (Tamas)
* Low cost hardware. Capture and replay of experimental or clinical sessions (Kirby)
* Slicer CaseHub - Plans for capturing, organizing, and accessing multi-track procedure data (Steve)

=Topic suggestions=

* Improving Ultrasound imaging.  This involves acquiring RF level or other data from the mid-processor stage of the imager (see http://www.ti.com/lit/wp/sprab12/sprab12.pdf, Figure 2) with the intent to provide a more suitable image for  a particular application.
* Ultrasound post-processing, in which the image is processed to better enable, for example, registration to a CT data set.
** [[2012 Summer Project Week Breakout Session: Ultrasound: Denoising|Denoising with Ultrasound specific statistical filters]]
* Calibration, registration and display of ultrasound in 3D Slicer
* Real time (lag free) display of high quality US in Slicer for procedure guidance  and lag free registered display in 3D models. 
* The combination of 3 and 4 on low cost commodity hardware.
* The capture of all data to enable post procedure replay of  a experimental or clinical session, so that the various processing steps can be debugged and optimized.