2008 IGT Project Week

Introduction

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  National Center for Image Guided therapy

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  National Alliance for Medical Image Computing

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  Neuroimage Analysis Center

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  CIMIT

Dates: Monday, December 8th to Friday, December 12th

Location: Monday's activities will take place in Room BC-4-004 F at the Ledge Building, located at 1 Brigham Circle, Boston MA. Rest of the week will be at the SPL facility at 1249 Boylston Street, Boston MA (Directions) (See here for information about area hotels.)

IGT Project Week is a hands-on event that will involve various scientific, clinical, and engineering activities that are part of building image-guided therapy systems. Please note that is not a week long session of lectures and/or slide presentations. Instead, active researchers in the field will gather for a week to get actual work done on projects that they have identified ahead of time. A fair amount of effort will be put into phone calls between the hosts and the participants in the month leading upto the event to ensure that every participant belongs to a project that makes sense to be pursued in such a collaborative setting. Depending on the needs of the projects, the hosts, NCIGT at Brigham and Women's Hospital, will reserve time at appropriate research imaging and therapy equipment.

Before the event, individual phone calls/meetings will be held with confirmed participants to review the scope of the work that they will collaboratively pursue during this week. The event itself will start with short presentation by each project team to allows all participants to be acquainted with others who are doing similar work. In the rest of the week, most of the time will be spent doing hands-on programming, imaging, algorithm design, phantom or animal experiments or other validation in small project teams. Given that this is the first stand-alone IGT event of this kind, we expect to have about 5-10 teams of size 3-4 each. To facilitate this work, a conference room will be setup with several tables, with internet and power access, to allow teams to either work on their own laptops. Based on the project requirements, times will also be reserved on the research imaging equipment and therapy equipment at Brigham and Women's Hospital. On the last day of the event, a closing presentation session will be held in which each project team will present a summary of what they accomplished during the week.

This event is modeled after the NA-MIC Project Week and its main goal is to foster a hand-on image-guided therapy systems community. The first event is being organized by NCIGT and several other NIH funded grants, and the outcome at this meeting will determine the format and frequency of future events. Unfortunately, no travel support is available from NCIGT for this event; it must be sponsored by their host institution/grant.

If you are interested in joining this event, please send an email to Tina Kapur: tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu

Agenda

Monday

Please note that Monday's session will be held at The Ledge Building located at One Brigham Circle Room BC-4-004 F

• 1:30-3:30pm: Presentation of all Projects by Project Leaders Using the descriptions below (#Projects)
• 3:30pm - 430pm: Prostate breakout session
• 3:30-5pm: Start Project Work

Tuesday

Please note that the rest of the week will be held at the 2nd floor conference room, 1249 Boylston Street.

• 9am: Breakfast
• 10am-noon: Non-rigid Registration Breakout Session
• noon: lunch
• 1-5pm: Work
• 3pm: coffee

Wednesday

• 9am: Breakfast
• 9am-noon: Work
• noon: lunch
• 1pm: Journal Club Talk: James Balter, University of Michigan: "Finding the truth: Surrogates and Sampling for Setup and monitoring of treatment" Abstract
• 2-5pm: Work
• 3pm: coffee

Thursday

• 9am: Breakfast
• 10am-noon: Tissue Characterization Breakout Session
• 9am-noon: Work
• noon: lunch
• 1-5pm: Work
• 3pm: coffee
• 720pm: Mockup MR-guided Prostate Biopsy (221 Longwood)

Friday

• 9am: Breakfast
• 10am: Review of Progress
• 12pm: adjourn

Projects

This is a working list of projects for this week.

1. Fast Imaging Library (Scott Hoge,Bob Kraft)
2. 2008 IGT Project Week Nonrigid MR-ULS Registration Algorithms for Neurosurgery, Prostate MRgFUS and Brachytherapy (Sandy Wells, Michel, Tina Kapur, Matt Toews, Louis Collins, Nathan McDannold, Ben Schwartz)
3. Dynamic control of the MRI acquisition(Nathan McDannold, Ben Schwartz, Ehud Schmidt, Scott Hoge)
4. Analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced imaging (Team TBD)
5. RF Ablation System (Ziv Yaniv Georgetown, Noby Hata)
6. Volume Rendering for IGT using CUDA (Xenios Papademeteris, John Onofrey, Noby Hata, Steve Pieper)
7. Realtime Tractography for Neurosurgery:VVLINK(Noby Hata, Xenios Papademeteris, Haiying Liu, Isaiah Norton, Jean-Jacques Lemaire, Madeline, Steve Pieper )
8. Realtime Tractography for Neurosurgery:Workflow(Isaiah Norton, Jean-Jacques Lemaire, Haiying Liu, Steve Pieper )
9. Prostate Robotics (Junichi Tokuda, Noby Hata, Clif Burdette, Jack Blevins, Clare Tempany,Sam Song, Bong Joon Cho)
10. Work-flow based Slicer Module for IGT application (Andinet Enquobahrie, Noby Hata, Steve Pieper)

Confirmed Attendees

1. Ziv Yaniv, Georgetown - Monday 11:00pm-Wednesday 3pm
2. Andinet Enquobahrie, Kitware- Monday 1:30pm-Tuesday 5pm
3. Michel Audette, Kitware - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
4. Xenios Papademetris, Yale- Monday 1:30pm-Tuesday 5pm.
5. John Onofrey, Yale-Monday 1:30pm-Tuesday 5pm
6. Sandy Wells, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
7. Tina Kapur, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
8. Matt Toews, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
9. Noby Hata, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
10. Steve Pieper, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
11. Katie Hayes, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
12. Scott Hoge, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
13. Nathan McDannold, BWH - Tuesday 9am -Friday noon
14. Ben Schwartz, BWH - Tuesday 9am -Friday noon
15. Ron Kikinis, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
16. Clare Tempany, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-3:30pm, Friday 10am-noon
17. Ferenc Jolesz, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-3:30pm, Friday 10am-noon
18. Junichi Tokuda, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
19. Haiying Liu, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
20. Greg Fischer, WPI- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
21. Clif Burdette, AcousticMed Systems- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
22. Jack Blevins, AcousticMed Systems- Monday 1:30pm-Thursday 5pm
23. Bong Joon Cho (Nathan), JHU- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
24. Sam Song, JHU- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
25. Andriy Fedorov, BWH/W&M- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
26. Haytham Elhawary, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
27. Bob Kraft, Wake Forest Univ- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
28. James Balter, U Michigan- Wednesday 9am-Thursday 5pm
29. Paul Morrison, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
30. Jayender, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
31. Madeline Seeland, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
32. Raul San Jose Estepar, BWH - Mon, Tue, Thursday
33. Yanmei Tei, BWH - Mon
34. Wentao Wu, BWH - Mon
35. Jean-Jacques Lemaire, BWH - Mon, Tue
36. Nikos Chrisochoides, W&M - Monday 1:30pm-Wednesday