CTSC:TTIC.031709

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Agenda

1. Imaging Consultation (update on Dodson-lingual nerve imaging and Freedman-inflammation imaging)
2. Hiring of the XNAT engineer (special guest, Shawn Murphy)
3. Update on i2b2 project
4. Catalyst deputies meeting
5. Consultation tracking system
6. Update on installation of physiological monitoring systems for fMRI.
7. Imaging boot camp

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes March 17, 2009

In attendance:

• Gordon Williams
• Randy Gollub
• Gordon Harris
• Clare Tempany
• Bill Hanlon
• Valerie Humblet
• Stephan Voss
• Bob Lenkinski
• Simon Warfield
• Neil Rofsky
• Bruce Rosen
• Ron Kikinis
• Shawn Murphy (Associate Director of the Laboratory of Computer Science at MGH)

1. Consultation requests submitted through the Catalyst website

• Valerie gave the group an update on the two on-going imaging consultations.
  • Bob will coordinate the imaging of the lingual nerve at BIDMC
  • Neil will continue to research technique to image liver inflammation and will keep the investigator updated.

2. Hiring of the XNAT engineer

• Gordon Williams stressed the importance of hiring someone quickly, before the end of year one. That leaves us until April 1st to get this person on the payroll.
• All the interviewers were present during the t-con and discussed the strengths of the candidates. The Imaging Consortium agreed that all the candidates have tremendous expertise and would be strong addition to the team.
• The engineer will be hired through Children's Hospital with Simon as supervisor. Randy offered to take care of the logistics related to the position (weekly meetings, ...).

3. Update on i2b2 program

• Shawn Murphy, Associate Director of the Laboratory of Computer Science at MGH was a special guest on the t-con. He was invited to give his feedback on the candidates interviewed for the XNAT engineer position.
• During the meeting, he also gave a brief presentation of the i2b2 project and its implication for the integration of imaging data. The XNAT platform will be tied into the i2b2 infrastructure of the CTSC through web services typically available in the i2b2 Hive. This will allow the images and image data of XNAT to be merged with the phenotype and genotype data of the CTSC i2b2 Hive, thereby creating a complete and cohesive clinical research chart. A further benefit, enabled by the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), is to supply the clinical translational community with robust, open source solutions for medical image analysis, visualization and management software tools by the creation of a “desktop” version of XNAT. The desktop XNAT data management software will provide a state of the art management of medical image data for the individual clinical translational research scientist. It is being developed to integrate and interoperate with a number of the key image analysis software tools, including Slicer 3 and Freesurfer, in use by the Harvard CTSC community.