2012 Summer Project Week:Reporting

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• BWH: Andrey Fedorov, Nicole Aucoin, Steve Pieper, Ron Kikinis, Fiona Fennessy
• Northwestern U: Pat Mongklowat
• Kitware: JC

Objective

As part of BWH QIN project, we are working on implementing support for

• organizing Slicer markup and annotations into hierarchies to maintain their relationship with the original volumes
• export these hierarchies and Slicer internal data structures into other formats (e.g., AIM)

This development is currently happening within Reporting module (available on github).

Approach, Plan

• present the capabilities of the Reporting module to the interested groups
• discuss the missing features and roadmap for future development
• cross-check with the AIM experts (Pat) that the AIM output is correct
• discuss the possibility of integrating Reporting module with the native AIM API, which is currently under development by Pat Mongklowat's group
• consider integrating Reporting as an extension
• discuss how support of DICOM SEG should be integrated into Slicer
• connection/extension of DICOM SEG and the lookup table concept of Slicer

Progress

• we worked on integrating the Reporting module as a Slicer extension
  • work is taking place in the git branch here: https://github.com/fedorov/Reporting/tree/extension
  • application key has been obtained following the guidelines
  • Reporting extension ExperimentalUpload build has been accomplished and the packaged extension has been uploaded: http://slicer.cdash.org/buildSummary.php?buildid=25213; issue has been identified in testing infrastructure that causes unit test to crash, JC is working on it
  • it was identified that loading DICOM scalar volumes leads to a crash, preventing the use of Reporting module, but submitted: http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2241
• integration of DICOM SEG support has been discussed as part of DICOM breakout (see notes here: 2012_Summer_Project_Week_Breakout_Session:Slicer_DICOM)
• we worked on compiling AIM 3.0 API on Mac, but not succeeded
• discussed with the AIM experts the details of saving annotations: only one annotation and image reference should be saved per AIM file, if the AIM format is to be followed precisely

Delivery Mechanism

Reporting module is available as a Slicer4 loadable module, source code available on github: https://github.com/fedorov/Reporting

References

• Slicer AIM integration project: AIM_Annotations_integration_with_3DSlicer
• Reporting module source code: https://github.com/fedorov/Reporting