View source for Events:2011-08-02-AAPM-Slicer-Users-Group-Meeting

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=Introduction=
[[Image:Dose_warping_in_Slicer.png|thumb|right|320px|Deformable Registration and Dose Warping. Click [https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Modules:PlastimatchXFORMWARP here] for tutorial]]
[[Image:DVH_in_Slicer.png|thumb|right|320px|Dose Volume Histograms in Slicer. Click [[2011_Summer_Project_Week_DVH|here]] for more information]]

[http://www.slicer.org 3D Slicer], is a free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os X.

The goal of the user group meeting is to bring together current and prospective 3D Slicer users and developers to discuss of 3D Slicer's present and future as a radiation therapy software application.

=Logistics=
*Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011
*Time: 12:30PM-2:00PM
*Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, room [http://www.aapm.org/meetings/2011AM/CommitteeSchedule.asp Pacific Rim 1 (Restaurant Level)], at the [http://www.aapm.org/meetings/2011AM/ 2011 Joint AAPM/COMP Meeting], Vancouver, BC

=Organizers=
*[http://gray.mgh.harvard.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9:gregory-c-sharp-phd&catid=1:faculty&itemid=8 Gregory C Sharp, Ph.D., Assistant Radiation Physicist, Massachusetts General Hospital]
*[http://perk.cs.queensu.ca/profiles/lasso Andras Lasso, Senior Software Engineer, Queen's University]

=Program=

* 12:30-12:45 Room setup and pre-meeting networking
* 12:45-1:00 Introduction to 3D Slicer for radiation therapy [[Media:SharpAapmSlicer2011.pdf|(slides)]] (Greg Sharp)
* 1:00-1:15 3D Slicer for clinical use, for radiotherapy research, and for your research work [[Media:LassoAapmSlicer2011.pdf|(slides)]] (Andras Lasso)
* 1:15-1:30 Interactive deformable registration with landmarks [[Media:nadya_aapm_slicer.ppt|(slides)]] (Nadya Shusharina)
* 1:30-1:45 NTCP investigation with deformable registration and dose warping [[Media:SalehAapmSlicer2011.pptx|(slides)]] (Ziad Saleh)
* 1:45-2:00 Open discussion - 3D Slicer development roadmap for radiation therapy
* Discussion:
** Experiences with 3D Slicer
** Needed improvements and new functionalities

=Registration=

[http://perk.cs.queensu.ca/contents/aapm-2011-3d-slicer-user-group-registration If you plan to attend the meeting please click here to register.]

=Meeting summary=
* If you are interested in using or improving 3D Slicer for radiotherapy then please fill out our survey: http://bit.ly/q3515X
* About 20 people attended. The questions of the audience suggested that currently the primary interest is how to import, display, and register structure sets and dose maps in 3D Slicer.
* Specific suggestions from the community
** Visualization of deformation vector fields
** Visualization of deformation quality (e.g. Jacobian)
** Contour propagation tools, contour comparison tools
** Contour naming
** DVH tools, statistics on min, max, mean dose, hot spots
** Tools to assess deformable registration quality (Dice coeff, Tanimoto coeff)
** CUDA acceleration in extensions
** Support for data exchange with RTPLAN elements
** Coordinate with ITC and CERR communities
** Better documentation of programming interfaces
* 3D Slicer radiotherapy related projects:
**[http://www.na-mic.org/pages/DBP:Head_and_Neck_Cancer Adaptive radiotherapy for head and neck cancer]
**[https://www.assembla.com/spaces/sparkit/ SparKit: toolkit and platform for radiotherapy]
**[[Events:Computational_Methods_for_Radiation_Oncology | NA-MIC collaborations in preparation]]

[[Image:Aapm2011SlicerUserGroupMtg1.jpg|center|thumb|320px|Presentation of 3D Slicer features and roadmap for radiotherapy]]
[[Image:Aapm2011SlicerUserGroupMtg2.jpg|center|thumb|320px|Discussion after the presentations]]