Events:Computational Methods for Radiation Oncology
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Date and Location
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011
Location: Surgery Education Office, Room CA-034, Carrie Hall, 15 Francis Street. (Directions)
The following information is useful for first time visitors to the hospital:
- http://www.brighamandwomens.org/about_bwh/locations/directions/default.aspx
- On the "Pike map" PDF link (bottom of page), the Carrie Hall building is closest to the 15 Francis St entrance -- enter through the columns.
- On Google Street View/Map, the Carrie Hall building is near the label "Howard Hughes Medical Institute".
Agenda
To brainstorm computational methods for radiation oncology between UNC, NA-MIC, BWH.
- 8am: Breakfast
- 8:30-10:30am: UNC -presentations about capabilities of current projects, short term and longer term plans
- Julian Rosenman PLUNC 18 minutes
- Gregg Tracton Software for PLUNC, segmentation, registration 10 minutes
- Stephen Pizer Registration by regression (2 methods), Segmentation via posterior optimization, training probability distributions on s reps and quantile functions, segmentation via correspondence-preserving warps, ant aliasing 23 minutes
- Sha Chang Nanotube imaging, incl. for IGRT 10 minutes
- Brandon Frederick Iterative tomographic reconstruction, CTs at treatment time, gpu’s 15 minutes
- Derek Merck 3D visualization via model-guided rendering, 3D visualization in PLUNC for RTP 15 minutes
- Ilknur Kabul Texturing of surfaces, onion skins, and cut planes; interpolation of textures 10 minutes
- Hina Shah Registration of endoscopic cine and CT of throat,fused displays of these two registered sources 8 minutes
- Ron Alterovitz Planning for brachytherapy with curved needles, FEM software 12 minutes
- 10:30 am: Break
- 10:50am-12pm: NA-MIC/Harvard presentations about capabilities of current projects, short term and longer term plans
- Slicer3 to Slicer 4, Radiation Therapy support today, and plans for the next year (Steve Pieper) (15 minutes)
- SPARKit, Canadian grant for providing open source software platform for radiotherapy, potentially based on NA-MIC Kit (Andras Lasso) (10minutes)
- Head and Neck Cancer NA-MIC DBP (Greg Sharp) (15 minutes)
- Gynecologic Cancer Brachytherapy Plans (Tina Kapur) (15 minutes)
- Shadie, shading language for volume visualization(Hanspeter Pfister, Milos Hasan, George Chen, John Wolfgang) (15 minutes)
- 12pm pm: Lunch
- 1pm: Intro of afternoon objectives (Julian Rosenman)
- 1:10pm: What UNC/Boston system combinations ought to be developed -- the Boston perspective (Tina Kapur)
- 1:30pm: What Boston/UNC system combinations ought to be developed -- the UNC perspective (Steve Pizer)
- 2:00-2:30pm: Comments from Kitware about their capabilities relevant to proposed combinations (Brad Davis)
- 2:30pm: Break and subgroup formation (e.g., merging surgical and radiation treatment planning system; 3D visualization software for treatment planning; image analysis software for treatment planning)
- 3:00-4pm: Subgroups sketch out mechanics for collaborations
- 4:00-5:0pm: Summary: what we do next?
Confirmed Participants
- Julian Rosenman
- Gregg Tracton
- Stephen Pizer
- Sha Chang
- Brandon Frederick
- Derek Merck
- Ilknur Kabul
- Hina Shah
- Ron Alterovitz
- Ron Kikinis
- Sandy Wells
- Steve Pieper
- Andras Lasso
- Greg Sharp
- Tina Kapur
- Hanspeter Pfister
- Milos Hasan
- George Chen
- John Wolfgang
- Petter Risholm
- Andrey Fedorov
- James Balter