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: 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.

A week before the event, a teleconference 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
• 3:30-5pm: Start Working

Tuesday

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

• 9-5: Work

Wednesday

• 9-5: Work

Thursday

• 9-5: Work

Friday

• 10am: Review of Progress
• 12pm: lunch and adjourn

Projects

This is a working list of projects for this week.

1. Fast Imaging Library (Scott Hoge, Bruno Madore, Bob Kraft)
2. Nonrigid MR-ULS Registration Algorithms development for neurosurgery (Sandy Wells, Stephen Aylward, Tina Kapur, Matt Toews, Louis Collins)
3. Nonrigid registration methods for tracking targets during Prostate MRgFUS (Nathan McDannold, Ben Schwartz?, Sandy Wells, Steve Haker, Nicu Archip)
4. Dynamic control of the MRI acquisition based on US-based signals. This would be to apply existing technologies developed for IGT (such as optical-based tracking of a biopsy or ablation probe). (Nathan McDannold, Ben Schwartz?, Ehud Schmidt?, Others?)
5. Analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced imaging for (Team TBD)
   1. Developing models of BBB disruption to optimize drug delivery;
   2. Mapping of tissue perfusion for modeling tissue parameters for treatment planning for MRgFUS;
   3. Distinguishing between residual tumor and the edge of the ablated region after MRgFUS.
6. RF Ablation System (Ziv Yaniv Georgetown, Noby Hata)
7. Volume Rendering for IGT using CUDA (Xenios Papademeteris, Noby Hata)
8. Realtime Tractography for Neurosurgery? (Noby Hata, Haiying Liu, Alex Golby?, Isaiah Norton?)
9. Prostate Robotics (Junichi Tokuda, Noby Hata, ?)
10. Work-flow based Slicer Module for IGT application (Andinet Enquobahrie, Stephen Aylward, Sebastien Barre, Noby Hata, Peter Kazanzides )

Confirmed Attendees

  1. Ziv Yaniv, Georgetown - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  2. Andinet Enquobahrie, Kitware- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  3. Michel Audette michel.audette@kitware.com- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  4. Xenios Papademetris, Yale- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  5. Sandy Wells, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  6. Louis Collins, MNI- Tuesday 9am -Wednesday 5pm
  7. Tina Kapur, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  8. Matt Towes, 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. Ron Kikinis, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 15. Clare Tempany, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-3:30pm, Friday 10am-noon
 16. Ferenc Jolesz, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-3:30pm, Friday 10am-noon
 17. Junichi Tokuda, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 18. Haiying Liu, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 19. Greg Fischer, WPI- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 20. Clif Burdette, AcousticMed Systems- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 21. Jack Blevins, AcousticMed Systems- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 22. Iulian Iordachita, JHU- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 23. Sam Song, JHU- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 24. Andriy Fedorov, BWH/W&M- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 25. Haytham Elhawary, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 26. Bob Kraft, Wake Forest Univ- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
 27. James Balter, U Michigan- Wednesday 9am-Thursday 5pm