CTSC:TTIC.120908 - Revision history

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CarolynZyloney at 23:03, 11 December 2008

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 * Sarah McMordie
 * Stephan Voss
 * Karl Helmer was a special guest at the t-con this week. He is project manager for the morphometry BIRN project and helped draft the proposal for the new BIRN coordinating center. He will help make the BIRN group aware of Harvard Catalyst's goals.

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 * The Tuesday evening RSNA sponsored National CTSC meeting was attended by Annick, Randy, Bill Hanlon, Dan Marcus, Jeff Yap, and Gordon Harris.
 ** Three sites -- Mayo Clinic, Cornell, and Duke -- made presentations about medical imaging within their CTSCs and the goals they are working to accomplish. All three sites have developed plans to support medical imaging but are still working to acquire resources to support their proposals (flier with agenda).
-** Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the [[Collaboration:TransCTSC.Imaging.Nov.2008 | November 7th meeting], to try to advance the details of the [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal] in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
+** Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the [[CTSC:TransCTSC.Imaging.Nov.2008|November 7th meeting]], to try to advance the details of the [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal] in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
 * The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our current medical imaging informatics plans as outline previously in the [[Media:XNAT4CTSC-i2b2.doc |5 page proposal]].

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 * The Tuesday evening RSNA sponsored National CTSC meeting was attended by Annick, Randy, Bill Hanlon, Dan Marcus, Jeff Yap, and Gordon Harris.
 ** Three sites -- Mayo Clinic, Cornell, and Duke -- made presentations about medical imaging within their CTSCs and the goals they are working to accomplish. All three sites have developed plans to support medical imaging but are still working to acquire resources to support their proposals (flier with agenda).
-** Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the [[CTSC:TransCTSC.Imaging.Nov.2008 | November 7th meeting], to try to advance the details of the [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal] in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
+** Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the [[Collaboration:TransCTSC.Imaging.Nov.2008 | November 7th meeting], to try to advance the details of the [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal] in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
 * The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our current medical imaging informatics plans as outline previously in the [[Media:XNAT4CTSC-i2b2.doc |5 page proposal]].

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 * The Tuesday evening RSNA sponsored National CTSC meeting was attended by Annick, Randy, Bill Hanlon, Dan Marcus, Jeff Yap, and Gordon Harris.
 ** Three sites -- Mayo Clinic, Cornell, and Duke -- made presentations about medical imaging within their CTSCs and the goals they are working to accomplish. All three sites have developed plans to support medical imaging but are still working to acquire resources to support their proposals (flier with agenda).
-** Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the [[CTSC:TransCTSC.Imaging.Nov.2008 |November 7th meeting], to try to advance the details of the [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal] in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
+** Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the [[CTSC:TransCTSC.Imaging.Nov.2008 | November 7th meeting], to try to advance the details of the [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal] in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
 * The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our current medical imaging informatics plans as outline previously in the [[Media:XNAT4CTSC-i2b2.doc |5 page proposal]].

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 ** The PET working group is involved in several projects: co-variates in SUV calculations, scanner qualifications and quality control in the scanner, IHE framework, structured reporting, and annotation of images.
-* Randy reported on the medical information software developed in collaboration with [https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/overview/ caBIG] and noted that many efforts were synergistic or easily brought in harmony with the Imaging Consortium's informatics plans.
+* Randy reported on the medical information software developed in collaboration with [https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/overview/ caBIG] and noted that many efforts were synergistic or easily brought in harmony with the Imaging Consortium's informatics plans. <br> She described the following projects:
 ** Randy, Ron Kikinis, and Dan Marcus met with Dan Rubin, the PI of the NCBC [http://bmir.stanford.edu/projects/view.php/annotation_and_image_markup_aim_project Annotation and Image Markup (AIM)] project. AIM is interoperable with [http://www.rsna.org/RadLex/ RadLex] (Radiology Lexicon). Dan Marcus and Dan Rubin developed a plan to integrate AIM into XNAT.
 ** Randy, Ron, and Dan also met with Tony Pan, colleague of Joel Saltz who is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), Ashish Sharma from OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics, John Paul Mulhern and Mark Adams, Project Manager on the caBIG project at Booz | Allen | Hamilton. They learned about the features of [https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid/ caGRID], including caPortal and the work tools included in the de-identification toolkit. caGrid's tools and underlying technologies, based on the globus toolkit, have the potential for future applications for layering on top of Harvard Catalytst's informatics efforts.

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 * The Imaging Consortium discussed setting up a policy for the CTSC review of Imaging protocols
 ** Stephan mentioned that at another CTSC, their imaging staff looks through every protocol that involves imaging in order to help researchers work most efficiently within the system.
-** Under the CRC system, all high risk protocols (such as those involving the use of a contrast agent) underwent review from the CRC and GAC.
+** Currently at the Martinos Center, studies with high risk designs cannot use the scanners.
 ** The Imaging Consortium has volunteered to serve as an Imaging consultant in the CTSC's scientific committee that will review those grants that are not NIH or peer-reviewed. This committee is replacing the GACs.
-** The Imaging Consortium agreed that we should review all high risk protocols. The Consortium will advertise its services to all investigators but not require lower risk studies to use our services.
+** The Imaging Consortium agreed that we should continue this policy of reviewing all high risk protocols, but that there was no reason for increasing the level of oversite via review from the Imaging group members. Each Consortium member can propigate this policy at his or her own institution.
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 ** The Imaging Consortium unanimously decided to offer an interview to the most recent candidate.
 ** The CTSC Diversity Group has volunteered to assist the Imaging Consortium in finding additional qualified candidates for the position.
-** There will be a special t-con on Friday December 19th at 9:30 am to discuss the candidates and make a decision to hire the most qualified applicant.
+** There will be a special t-con on Friday December 19th at 9:30 am to discuss the candidates and make a decision to hire the most qualified applicant. Consortium members are requested to post their evaluations of the candidates and a rank ordering of these applicants on the xythos site in advance of the t-con.
 * Randy Gollub accepted the role of being in charge of the Imaging Liaison when he or she is hired.
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 ** organizing a standard language for IRB submissions that include imaging
 ** setting up and training people to use the physiological monitoring system
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 * The Imaging Consortium received one consultation request and discussed it during the t-con.
 ** In the request, a researcher asked for assistance with a pathology and biochemistry imaging project.
-** The Consortium unanimously agreed that questions concerning biochemical and pathological laboratory techniques do not fall into the domain of the CTSC Imaging Group. These kinds of requests will be forwarded to the CTSC Navigators, who can help direct researchers to the appropriate resources such as Pathology or one of the other Core labs.
+** The Consortium unanimously agreed that questions concerning biochemical and pathological laboratory techniques do not fall into the domain of the CTSC Imaging Group. These kinds of misdirected requests will be forwarded to the CTSC Navigators, who can help direct researchers to the appropriate resources such as Pathology or one of the other Core labs.
-** The Consortium and CTSC Central staff agreed that the boundaries between consultation requests that fall inside and outside of the Imaging Consortium's domain should be defined in order to increase the efficiency with which consultation requests can be directed to the appropriate service.
+** Randy and CTSC Central staff agreed that the boundary between the kinds of consultation requests that fall inside and outside of the Imaging Consortium's domain should be defined in order to increase the efficiency with which consultation requests can be directed to the appropriate service. Additionally, Randy proposed creating an interface through which CTSC Navigators can easily communicate with the Imaging Liaison regarding consultation requests. Additionally, CTSC Central's web development team will be asked to develop electronic tools to help direct consultation requests to the appropriate consulting group.
 * Annick received an additional consultation request concerning the resources at the NMR Center.
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 * The Imaging Consortium discussed setting up a policy for the CTSC review of Imaging protocols
-** Stephan mentioned that at another CTSC, their staff looks through every protocol in order to help researchers work most efficiently within the system.
+** Stephan mentioned that at another CTSC, their imaging staff looks through every protocol that involves imaging in order to help researchers work most efficiently within the system.
-** Under the GCRC system, all high risk protocols (such as those involving the use of a contrast agent) underwent review from the GCRC and GAC.
+** Under the CRC system, all high risk protocols (such as those involving the use of a contrast agent) underwent review from the CRC and GAC.
 ** The Imaging Consortium has volunteered to serve as an Imaging consultant in the CTSC's scientific committee that will review those grants that are not NIH or peer-reviewed. This committee is replacing the GACs.
 ** The Imaging Consortium agreed that we should review all high risk protocols. The Consortium will advertise its services to all investigators but not require lower risk studies to use our services.
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 * Randy Gollub accepted the role of being in charge of the Imaging Liaison when he or she is hired.
 ** Randy will serve as the connection between the Liaison and the Imaging Consortium. She will be the person primarily in charge of training the Imaging Liaison in conjunction with Carolyn, assigning tasks for the new employee to complete, and supervising the Imaging Liaison.
-** The Imaging Liaison job description will be edited to reflect Randy's role as a mentor.
+** The Imaging Liaison job description will be edited to reflect Randy's role as a manager.
 * When hired, the Imaging Liaison will assume the following responsibilities: