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'''Action Items (details below)'''
 
'''Action Items (details below)'''
# There will be a special meeting to discuss the Imaging Liaison candidates on Friday December 19th at 9:30 am. Please schedule all interviews with the candidates and update the form sheet for evaluations on the xythos site after the interview no later than December 18th.  
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# There will be a special meeting to discuss the Imaging Liaison candidates on Friday December 19th at 9:30 am. Please schedule all interviews with the candidates and update the form sheet for evaluations, including a ranking of the candidates, on the xythos site after the interview no later than December 18th.  
  
 
== Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes December 9, 2008 ==
 
== Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes December 9, 2008 ==
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* Stephan Voss
 
* Stephan Voss
  
* Karl Helmer was a special guest at the t-con this week. He is  
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* Karl Helmer was a special guest at the t-con this week. He is project manager for the morphometry BIRN project and helped draft the proposal for the new BIRN coordinating center. He will help make the BIRN group aware of Harvard Catalyst's goals.
  
 
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'''1. CTSC Imaging Consultation Request'''<br>
 
'''1. CTSC Imaging Consultation Request'''<br>
 
* The Imaging Consortium received one consultation request and discussed it during the t-con.
 
* The Imaging Consortium received one consultation request and discussed it during the t-con.
* In the request, a researcher asked for assistance with a pathology and biochemistry imaging project.  
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** In the request, a researcher asked for assistance with a pathology and biochemistry imaging project.  
* The Consortium unanimously agreed that questions concerning biochemical and pathological laboratory techniques do not fall into the domain of the CTSC Imaging Group. These kinds of requests will be forwarded to the CTSC Navigators, who can help direct researchers to the appropriate resources.  
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** The Consortium unanimously agreed that questions concerning biochemical and pathological laboratory techniques do not fall into the domain of the CTSC Imaging Group. These kinds of misdirected requests will be forwarded to the CTSC Navigators, who can help direct researchers to the appropriate resources such as Pathology or one of the other Core labs.
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** Randy and CTSC Central staff agreed that the boundary between the kinds of consultation requests that fall inside and outside of the Imaging Consortium's domain should be defined in order to increase the efficiency with which consultation requests can be directed to the appropriate service. Additionally, Randy proposed creating an interface through which CTSC Navigators can easily communicate with the Imaging Liaison regarding consultation requests. Additionally, CTSC Central's web development team will be asked to develop electronic tools to help direct consultation requests to the appropriate consulting group.
  
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* Annick received an additional consultation request concerning the resources at the NMR Center.
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** Randy plans on requesting Greg Sorenson's assistance with consultation requests concerning MR/PET within the Martinos Center.
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** When hired, the Imaging Liaison will be in charge of creating a list of resources at each site and using this list to respond to consultation requests.
  
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* The Imaging Consortium discussed setting up a policy for the CTSC review of Imaging protocols
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** Stephan mentioned that at another CTSC, their imaging staff looks through every protocol that involves imaging in order to help researchers work most efficiently within the system.
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** Currently at the Martinos Center, studies with high risk designs cannot use the scanners.
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** Formerly, all high risk protocols (such as those involving the use of a contrast agent) underwent review from the GCRC and the GAC in order to get approval to use special equiptment such as the physiological monitoring system and drug infusion pumps.
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** The Imaging Consortium has volunteered to serve as an Imaging consultant in the CTSC's scientific committee that will review those grants that are not NIH or peer-reviewed. This committee is replacing the GACs.
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** The Imaging Consortium agreed that we should continue this policy of reviewing all high risk protocols, but that there was no reason for increasing the level of oversite via review from the Imaging group members. Each Consortium member can propigate this policy at his or her own institution. 
  
 
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'''2. Imaging Information and Acquisition Liaison Job Position'''<br>
 
'''2. Imaging Information and Acquisition Liaison Job Position'''<br>
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* The Imaging Consortium set December 18th as the deadline for members to complete interviewing the candidates and post their evaluations on the xythos site.
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** The Imaging Consortium members have already met with or have scheduled interviews with three qualified candidates for the position.
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** The Imaging Consortium unanimously decided to offer an interview to the most recent candidate.
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** The CTSC Diversity Group has volunteered to assist the Imaging Consortium in finding additional qualified candidates for the position.
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** There will be a special t-con on Friday December 19th at 9:30 am to discuss the candidates and make a decision to hire the most qualified applicant. Consortium members are requested to post their evaluations of the candidates and a rank ordering of these applicants on the xythos site in advance of the t-con.
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* Randy Gollub accepted the role of being in charge of the Imaging Liaison when he or she is hired.  
 
* Randy Gollub accepted the role of being in charge of the Imaging Liaison when he or she is hired.  
 
** Randy will serve as the connection between the Liaison and the Imaging Consortium. She will be the person primarily in charge of training the Imaging Liaison in conjunction with Carolyn, assigning tasks for the new employee to complete, and supervising the Imaging Liaison.  
 
** Randy will serve as the connection between the Liaison and the Imaging Consortium. She will be the person primarily in charge of training the Imaging Liaison in conjunction with Carolyn, assigning tasks for the new employee to complete, and supervising the Imaging Liaison.  
** The Imaging Liaison job description will be edited to reflect Randy's role as a mentor.
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** The Imaging Liaison job description will be edited to reflect Randy's role as a manager.
  
* The job description has been circulated through several outlets:  
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* When hired, the Imaging Liaison will assume the following responsibilities:
** MGH has been asked to post the position on the Partners careers site
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** triage of consultation requests
** An email with the job description was sent to the Martinos Center community via email.
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** organizing the educational program
** An ad for the position was posted on the RSNA web site starting in mid-November. It will be posted there for a month.
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** drafting a list of the resources at each site within the Harvard CTSC
** The ad has also been posted on numerous career websites.
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** organizing a standard language for IRB submissions that include imaging
** The ad will be featured in the December issue of Radiology (an RSNA publication).
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** setting up and training people to use the physiological monitoring system
** A short description of the position will be posted on a monitor at the Career Connection booth at the RSNA Conference in December.
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* This list to be further elaborated by Consortium members pending further discussion.
* Three promising candidates have been invited in for interviews with several members of the consortium.
 
** The candidates have been instructed to contact the interviewers and set up appointments.
 
** Several consortium members have confirmed that all three candidates have contacted them.
 
** Interviews will continue through the next few weeks.
 
* Most materials from the applicants is already posted on the Xythos file sharing website. Additional materials, such as notes from meetings with the candidate's references will be posted shortly.
 
* After interviewing the job applicants, all interviewers are requested to make comments on the "Form Sheet For Evaluation" located in each applicant's directory, and post an updated version of this document on the Xythos site.
 
  
 
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'''3. Report from RSNA'''<br>
* While the goals of the National CTSC Imaging Informatics working group are complementary to the goals of the Harvard CTSC Imaging Group, the national group has a different set of strategic goals than the Consortium.
 
** The time line over which the national goals will be carried out is unclear.
 
** The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our plan to connect the XNAT instances at each of the institutions within the Harvard CTSC.
 
**  In designing this first step for connecting the Harvard institutions, the Harvard CTSC Imaging Group will work to ensure that our system is interoperable with the national goals and systems.
 
  
* Establishing a connection between all sites within the Harvard CTSC is anticipated to be a large and difficult project.
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* Jeff Yap reported to the group a summary of the RSNA Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance [http://qibawiki.rsna.org/index.php?title=Main_Page (QIBA)] meeting and the breakout working groups in PET, MRI, and CT (held December 4th).
** Several hard lines already exist between BIDMC and Partners as well as Children's Hospital and Partners. The Consortium  plans on finding out more about the locations and technical details of these hard lines and if they can support the transfer of Imaging data.  
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** The CT group focused on the topics of defining volumetric CT data and the use of [http://www.ihe.net/About/ IHE] for informatics standards.  
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** The MR group is involved in a multi-site cross platform data acquisition and calibration project. IRAT developed a phantom for DCE. This phantom will be sent around to several sites and scanned in MRI machines from different vendors with the goal of measuring the degree of standardization among the different scanners. The consortium noted that this project has goals that overlap with the goals of the morphometry BIRN (mBIRN) project and has requested a list of the sites involved in this project in order to learn if there are places where BIRN can provide support for this QIBA initiative.
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** The PET working group is involved in several projects: co-variates in SUV calculations, scanner qualifications and quality control in the scanner, IHE framework, structured reporting, and annotation of images.  
  
* The Imaging Consortium agreed to try to connect with the heads of IT and Informatics at each site.
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* Randy reported on the medical information software developed in collaboration with [https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/overview/ caBIG] and noted that many efforts were synergistic or easily brought in harmony with the Imaging Consortium's informatics plans. <br> She described the following projects:
** Randy met with Shawn Murphy from Partners IT. Shawn Murphy has been making good progress in presenting the Imaging group's goals to the head of IT at Partners.
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** Randy, Ron Kikinis, and Dan Marcus met with Dan Rubin, the PI of the NCBC [http://bmir.stanford.edu/projects/view.php/annotation_and_image_markup_aim_project Annotation and Image Markup (AIM)] project. AIM is interoperable with [http://www.rsna.org/RadLex/ RadLex] (Radiology Lexicon). Dan Marcus and Dan Rubin developed a plan to integrate AIM into XNAT.  
** Randy will meet with Simon and Stephan to learn more about the IT department and Children's Hospital and the progress that the Consortium members from Children's Hospital have made in sharing the Informatics proposal.
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** Randy, Ron, and Dan also met with Tony Pan, colleague of Joel Saltz who is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), Ashish Sharma from OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics, John Paul Mulhern and Mark Adams, Project Manager on the caBIG project at Booz | Allen | Hamilton. They learned about the features of [https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid/ caGRID], including caPortal and the work tools included in the de-identification toolkit. caGrid's tools and underlying technologies, based on the globus toolkit, have the potential for future applications for layering on top of Harvard Catalytst's informatics efforts.
 
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*The developers of [http://www.cabigimaging.org/wiki/index.php?title=XIP-main&redirect=no XIP], including Larry Tarbox from Washington University in St. Loius, met with Randy Gollub and Ron Kikinis to explore the possibility of integrating the Slicer toolkit as a visualization tool within the XIP framework.
* The Imaging Consortium agreed to set up a follow up meeting with the CTSC Informatics Group to discuss the progress that has been made since last meeting with that working group.
 
 
 
* Randy suggested that the Consortium members consider preparing a manuscript on the issues of data sharing and the protection of human subjects as they relate to neuroinformatics. Randy plans on meeting with Pearl O'Rourke to discuss writing a manuscript for publication.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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'''5. RSNA'''<br>
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* The Tuesday evening RSNA sponsored National CTSC meeting was attended by Annick, Randy, Bill Hanlon, Dan Marcus, Jeff Yap, and Gordon Harris.  
* There are several events of interest during RSNA. The Imaging Consortium has discussed plans to attend these meetings:
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** Three sites -- Mayo Clinic, Cornell, and Duke -- made presentations about medical imaging within their CTSCs and the goals they are working to accomplish. All three sites have developed plans to support medical imaging but are still working to acquire resources to support their proposals (flier with agenda).
** An informational session on the activities of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA),  will be held Monday, December 1, 2008 from 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon (McCormick Convention Center, Room S103 C&D). Dan Sullivan is the host of this meeting. <br> The December 1, 2008 meeting will provide more information about QIBA’s history, process, and goals. In addition, each of the three QIBA Technical Committees will provide updates on their projects.  This meeting is open to all RSNA Annual Meeting attendees, so feel free to share this information with other interested persons.  If you are unable to attend, please be aware that an informational exhibit on QIBA’s goals and the work of the Technical Committees will also be displayed in the Learning Center during RSNA 2008.  <br> Annick has agreed to attend this session as a representative of the Imaging Consortium.
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** Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the [[CTSC:TransCTSC.Imaging.Nov.2008|November 7th meeting]], to try to advance the details of the [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal] in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
** The RSNA organized Imaging Working Group will meet on Tuesday December 2nd from 3 PM to 5 PM in room S104B to be led by Dan Sullivan and include break out sessions for Informatics, Education and Clinical Trials. This meeting is open to the community. Randy, Bill, Gordon Harris, Jeff and perhaps others will be in attendance.
 
** The PET, MRI, and CT working groups will be meeting on Thursday December 4th. These meetings provide an opportunity for pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, software groups, and clinical trials researchers to formulate guidelines. <br> Jeff Yap has agreed to attend these sessions if they are pertinent to the Imaging Consortium's goals.
 
  
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* The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our current medical imaging informatics plans as outline previously in the [[Media:XNAT4CTSC-i2b2.doc |5 page proposal]].
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** Randy Gollub shared Dan Marcus's opinion that the Imaging Consortium should commence with looking for a skilled IT person to start working on the development of this project, and the group unanimously agreed with this plan. Randy will circulate the job description for this CTSC XNAT engineer/IT expert.
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** There is currently one potential candidate for the position and others will be recruited when the job description is finalized.
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** Bill Hanlon has agreed to assist in interviewing candidates for this position.
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** Randy will invite Gabriele Fairello, the Head of Neuroinformatcs at the Harvard Center for Brain Science, to assist in the interview process.
  
 
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Action Items (details below)

  1. There will be a special meeting to discuss the Imaging Liaison candidates on Friday December 19th at 9:30 am. Please schedule all interviews with the candidates and update the form sheet for evaluations, including a ranking of the candidates, on the xythos site after the interview no later than December 18th.

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes December 9, 2008

In Attendance (via phone):

  • Randy Gollub
  • Carolyn Zyloney
  • Jeff Yap
  • Bill Hanlon
  • Clare Tempany
  • Annick D. Van den Abbeele
  • Laura Alice
  • Sarah McMordie
  • Stephan Voss
  • Karl Helmer was a special guest at the t-con this week. He is project manager for the morphometry BIRN project and helped draft the proposal for the new BIRN coordinating center. He will help make the BIRN group aware of Harvard Catalyst's goals.


1. CTSC Imaging Consultation Request

  • The Imaging Consortium received one consultation request and discussed it during the t-con.
    • In the request, a researcher asked for assistance with a pathology and biochemistry imaging project.
    • The Consortium unanimously agreed that questions concerning biochemical and pathological laboratory techniques do not fall into the domain of the CTSC Imaging Group. These kinds of misdirected requests will be forwarded to the CTSC Navigators, who can help direct researchers to the appropriate resources such as Pathology or one of the other Core labs.
    • Randy and CTSC Central staff agreed that the boundary between the kinds of consultation requests that fall inside and outside of the Imaging Consortium's domain should be defined in order to increase the efficiency with which consultation requests can be directed to the appropriate service. Additionally, Randy proposed creating an interface through which CTSC Navigators can easily communicate with the Imaging Liaison regarding consultation requests. Additionally, CTSC Central's web development team will be asked to develop electronic tools to help direct consultation requests to the appropriate consulting group.
  • Annick received an additional consultation request concerning the resources at the NMR Center.
    • Randy plans on requesting Greg Sorenson's assistance with consultation requests concerning MR/PET within the Martinos Center.
    • When hired, the Imaging Liaison will be in charge of creating a list of resources at each site and using this list to respond to consultation requests.
  • The Imaging Consortium discussed setting up a policy for the CTSC review of Imaging protocols
    • Stephan mentioned that at another CTSC, their imaging staff looks through every protocol that involves imaging in order to help researchers work most efficiently within the system.
    • Currently at the Martinos Center, studies with high risk designs cannot use the scanners.
    • Formerly, all high risk protocols (such as those involving the use of a contrast agent) underwent review from the GCRC and the GAC in order to get approval to use special equiptment such as the physiological monitoring system and drug infusion pumps.
    • The Imaging Consortium has volunteered to serve as an Imaging consultant in the CTSC's scientific committee that will review those grants that are not NIH or peer-reviewed. This committee is replacing the GACs.
    • The Imaging Consortium agreed that we should continue this policy of reviewing all high risk protocols, but that there was no reason for increasing the level of oversite via review from the Imaging group members. Each Consortium member can propigate this policy at his or her own institution.



2. Imaging Information and Acquisition Liaison Job Position

  • The Imaging Consortium set December 18th as the deadline for members to complete interviewing the candidates and post their evaluations on the xythos site.
    • The Imaging Consortium members have already met with or have scheduled interviews with three qualified candidates for the position.
    • The Imaging Consortium unanimously decided to offer an interview to the most recent candidate.
    • The CTSC Diversity Group has volunteered to assist the Imaging Consortium in finding additional qualified candidates for the position.
    • There will be a special t-con on Friday December 19th at 9:30 am to discuss the candidates and make a decision to hire the most qualified applicant. Consortium members are requested to post their evaluations of the candidates and a rank ordering of these applicants on the xythos site in advance of the t-con.
  • Randy Gollub accepted the role of being in charge of the Imaging Liaison when he or she is hired.
    • Randy will serve as the connection between the Liaison and the Imaging Consortium. She will be the person primarily in charge of training the Imaging Liaison in conjunction with Carolyn, assigning tasks for the new employee to complete, and supervising the Imaging Liaison.
    • The Imaging Liaison job description will be edited to reflect Randy's role as a manager.
  • When hired, the Imaging Liaison will assume the following responsibilities:
    • triage of consultation requests
    • organizing the educational program
    • drafting a list of the resources at each site within the Harvard CTSC
    • organizing a standard language for IRB submissions that include imaging
    • setting up and training people to use the physiological monitoring system
  • This list to be further elaborated by Consortium members pending further discussion.


3. Report from RSNA

  • Jeff Yap reported to the group a summary of the RSNA Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA) meeting and the breakout working groups in PET, MRI, and CT (held December 4th).
    • The CT group focused on the topics of defining volumetric CT data and the use of IHE for informatics standards.
    • The MR group is involved in a multi-site cross platform data acquisition and calibration project. IRAT developed a phantom for DCE. This phantom will be sent around to several sites and scanned in MRI machines from different vendors with the goal of measuring the degree of standardization among the different scanners. The consortium noted that this project has goals that overlap with the goals of the morphometry BIRN (mBIRN) project and has requested a list of the sites involved in this project in order to learn if there are places where BIRN can provide support for this QIBA initiative.
    • The PET working group is involved in several projects: co-variates in SUV calculations, scanner qualifications and quality control in the scanner, IHE framework, structured reporting, and annotation of images.
  • Randy reported on the medical information software developed in collaboration with caBIG and noted that many efforts were synergistic or easily brought in harmony with the Imaging Consortium's informatics plans.
    She described the following projects:
    • Randy, Ron Kikinis, and Dan Marcus met with Dan Rubin, the PI of the NCBC Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) project. AIM is interoperable with RadLex (Radiology Lexicon). Dan Marcus and Dan Rubin developed a plan to integrate AIM into XNAT.
    • Randy, Ron, and Dan also met with Tony Pan, colleague of Joel Saltz who is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), Ashish Sharma from OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics, John Paul Mulhern and Mark Adams, Project Manager on the caBIG project at Booz | Allen | Hamilton. They learned about the features of caGRID, including caPortal and the work tools included in the de-identification toolkit. caGrid's tools and underlying technologies, based on the globus toolkit, have the potential for future applications for layering on top of Harvard Catalytst's informatics efforts.
    • The developers of XIP, including Larry Tarbox from Washington University in St. Loius, met with Randy Gollub and Ron Kikinis to explore the possibility of integrating the Slicer toolkit as a visualization tool within the XIP framework.
  • The Tuesday evening RSNA sponsored National CTSC meeting was attended by Annick, Randy, Bill Hanlon, Dan Marcus, Jeff Yap, and Gordon Harris.
    • Three sites -- Mayo Clinic, Cornell, and Duke -- made presentations about medical imaging within their CTSCs and the goals they are working to accomplish. All three sites have developed plans to support medical imaging but are still working to acquire resources to support their proposals (flier with agenda).
    • Brad Erickson led the discussion, following the November 7th meeting, to try to advance the details of the Image Sharing Infrastructure Proposal in preparation for submitting a grant proposal to NIBIB.
  • The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our current medical imaging informatics plans as outline previously in the 5 page proposal.
    • Randy Gollub shared Dan Marcus's opinion that the Imaging Consortium should commence with looking for a skilled IT person to start working on the development of this project, and the group unanimously agreed with this plan. Randy will circulate the job description for this CTSC XNAT engineer/IT expert.
    • There is currently one potential candidate for the position and others will be recruited when the job description is finalized.
    • Bill Hanlon has agreed to assist in interviewing candidates for this position.
    • Randy will invite Gabriele Fairello, the Head of Neuroinformatcs at the Harvard Center for Brain Science, to assist in the interview process.