2012 Winter Project Week:RTSS

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Background

Need to add RT support for Slicer. There were some preliminary work in Slicer3 (using Plastimatch) and new efforts (Plastimatch, DCMTK/DCMRT, SparKit).

Key Investigators

• MGH: Greg Sharp
• NA-MIC: Steve Pieper
• Queen's University: Andras Lasso

Objective

• Find a good representation of RT structure sets in Slicer.

Approach, Plan

• Specify requirements for representing structure sets in Slicer
• Decide on the design
• Implement the solution in Slicer4

Progress

• Preliminary discussions

Notes

• Requirements
  • Support up to 100 structures
  • Support overlapping structures
  • Display a name for each structure
  • Show/hide each structure
  • Manual editing of each structure
  • Rigid/deformable transform of the structures
  • DICOM-RT export
• Design options
  • Store each structure as one labelmap (lots of memory, data loss when converted from contours)
  • Store multiple structure in a labelmap as bitfield (limited to 32 structures, complicated editing, data loss when converted from contours)
  • Store as model or annotation contours (not the usual representation for segmented structures, models cannot be edited)

References

• SparKit project wiki
• DCMTK
• Plastimatch