2011 Winter Project Week:TubeTK VascularImageSegmentationAndAnalysis

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Kitware: Stephen Aylward, Danielle Pace
• SPL: Steve Pieper
• Luca Antiga, Daniel Haehn

Objective

TubeTK is a new open-source toolkit that hosts algorithms for applications involving images of tubes.

Two driving applications:

• Surgical guidance: registering pre-operative vascular models with intra-operative images (e.g., ultrasound)
• Characterizing vascular patters: using graph theory to distinguish clinical populations based on vascular patterns (e.g., benign -vs- malignant tumors via tortuosity)

Approach, Plan

• Python module in Slicer 4 for centerline and radius estimation of vasculature in brain MRA
  • Workflow: brain envelop segmentation, seeding, extraction
• Integration with VMTK

Progress

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a:

1. ITK Module
2. Slicer Module
   1. Built-in
   2. Extension -- commandline YES
   3. Extension -- loadable
3. Other YES

All software written during the project week will be contributed to TubeTK, and algorithms will be incorporated into 3D Slicer as CLI applications.