CTSC:ARRA.090710

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Agenda

• Update on Phase 2/3 mi2b2 software
• ACRIN presentation (not actually discussed - notes here to guide next week's discussion)

Harvard Catalyst Medical Informatics group Meeting Minutes September 07, 2010

In attendance:

• Bill Wang
• Ron Kikinis
• Mark Anderson
• Wendy Plesniak
• Chris Herrick
• Shawn Murphy
• Yong Gao
• Steve Pieper
• Randy Gollub
• Bill Tellier
• Paul Lamonica (phone)
• Dan Marcus (phone)
• Alex Zeitsev
• Darren Sack
• Jesse Wei
• Vincent Roch (new member)

• Charles McGow
• Jon Bickel

Meeting Minutes

Introduce Vincent Roch

Vincent is a master's student at the EPFL in Lusanne, Switzerland. He is doing his thesis project with Randy Gollub on a mi2b2 enabled project. He will be assisting this team in doing QA for medical images in the next phase of development.

mi2b2 software update

• Chris reports that Phase 3 programming continues to progress steadily. He and Bill are currently working on "throttling" issues- controls for regulating image movement. Can set implementation time window (chose time when the request can be made) and checks work queue and can limit requests if system is busy. In parallel they are also working on Phase 2 problems regarding issues about the status of the "test" images available at the sites which were coming back flagged as "off line" will be addressed in parallel using a list supplied by Randy of MRNs and associated image data sets that can be used for testing at BWH and MGH. And in parallel, i2b2 programmer is writing the code for the GUI. It is a highly complex interface from a programming standpoint.

ACRIN presentation

• Chris Herrick will be presenting our mi2b2 project as part of the national CTSA Imaging Working Group activities on Wednesday September 29th at the ACRIN meeting being held at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City in Arlington, VA. The agenda is not yet final, but currently the session as planned will run from 11:30 am-2:45 pm (Lunch available starting at 11:15 am) and is entitled "CTSA IWG working lunch: Image Sharing Strategies and Infrastructure Update". The organizing questions to presenters are:
  

1. What kinds of translational research projects will be enabled or facilitated by an improved imaging informatics infrastructure?
2. What are the gap areas in research imaging informatics infrastructure, tools or systems to accomplish the first point?
   

Dan Sullivan will moderate the session, beginning with his welcome. Brad Erickson will give a ~15 minute introduction to informatics for medical imaging. That will be followed by a series of Case Studies with presentations from Harvard Catalyst Group (Christopher Herrick), caBIG (Eliot Siegel), ADNI (Brad Erickson), Osteoarthritis (Cecil Charles), COPDGene (David Lynch), Cardiology (TBD). That will be followed by a Summary of Imaging Informatics White Papers that the national CTSC IWG is developing with best practice recommendations (Brad Erickson) and a final 30 minute open discussion period.