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| − | = Current status of Slicer's (local) data handling =
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| − | Currently, MRML files, XCEDE catalog files, XNAT archives and individual datasets are all loaded from local disk. All remote datasets are downloaded (via web interface or command line) outside of Slicer. In the BIRN 2007 AHM we demonstrated downloading .xar files from a remote database, and loading .xar and .xcat files into Slicer from local disk using Slicer's XNAT archive reader and XCEDE2.0 catalog reader. Slicer's current scheme for data handling is shown below:
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| − | [[image:DataLoadingCurrent.png]]
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| − | = Goal for how Slicer would upload/download from remote data stores =
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| − | Eventually, we would like to download uris remotely or locally from the Application itself, and have the option of uplaoding to remote stores as well. A draft sketch is below (feedback please!), which features a new Remote Reference Handler, owned by the MRMLScene, and an Asynchronous I/O and caching mechanism:
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| − | [[image:DataLoadingTarget.png ]]
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| − | = TWO Use CASES can drive a first pass implementation =
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| − | For BIRN, we'd like to demonstrate two use cases:
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| − | * '''First''', is loading a combined FIPS/FreeSurfer analysis, specified in an Xcede catalog (.xcat) file that contains uris pointing to remote datasets, and view this with Slicer's QueryAtlas. (...if we cannot get an .xcat via the HID web GUI, our approach would be to manually upload a test Xcede catalog file and its constituent datasets to some place on the SRB. We'll keep a copy of the catalog file locally, read it and query SRB for each uri in the .xcat file.)
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| − | * '''Second''', is running a batch job in Slicer that processes a set of remotely held datasets. Each iteration would take as arguments the XML file parameterizing the EMSegmenter, the uri for the remote dataset, and a uri for storing back the segmentation results.
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| − | The subset of functionality we'd need is shown below. This is a sketch proposed for discussion and refinement:
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| − | [[image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png]]
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| − | = Draft implementation design =
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| − | Initial class design that extends MRML and the Slicer3 Application Settings, defines a vtkURIHander (or vtkMRMLURIHandler?), and an interface to Asynchronous IO Manager:
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| − | == New Application Interface Settings==
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| − | '''Slicer3 Application Interface Settings: '''
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| − | * CacheDirectory
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| − | * Enable/Disable asynchronous I/O
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| − | * Instance & Register URI Handlers (?)
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| − | ==URIs that we’d want to handle==
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| − | * ftp://user:pw@host:port/path/to/volume.nrrd (read and write)
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| − | * http://host/file.utp (read only)
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| − | ==vtkMRMLScene methods (and members) ==
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| − | '''vtkMRMLScene members: '''
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| − | * CacheDirectory
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| − | * URIHandlerCollection
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| − | '''vtkMRMLScene methods: '''
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| − | * Get/Set on members...
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| − | * RegisterURIHandler ( *vtkMRMLURIHandler )
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| − | ** ''Adds a URIHandler to the collection''
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| − | == New /Libs/MRML/'''vtkMRMLURIHandler''' class==
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| − | '''vtkMRMLURIHandler members:'''
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| − | * URI
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| − | * CacheDir
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| − | * LocalFile
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| − | * vtkPasswordPrompter *PasswordPrompter
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| − | * ErrorString
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| − | * FileSize
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| − | * vtkMRMLStorageNode *DestinationStorageNode
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| − | '''vtkMRMLURIHandler (virtual) methods:'''
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| − | * Get/Set on members ...
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| − | * Download (filter watcher?)
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| − | * Upload (filter watcher?)
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| − | * int CanHandleURI()
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| − | == New /Libs/MRML/'''vtkMRMLFileHandler''' class, derived from '''vtkMRMLURIHandler'''==
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| − | '''vtkMRMLFileHandler methods:'''
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| − | * Download () (filter watcher?)
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| − | * Upload () (filter watcher?)
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| − | * int CanHandleURI()
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| − | == New /Libs/RemoteIO class library, with classes like the following, derived from '''vtkMRMLURIHandler'''==
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| − | These classes will depend on libcmcurl, added in getbuildtest2 for BatchMake.
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| − | * vtkHttpHandler
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| − | * vtkFtpHandler
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| − | * vtkSRBHandler
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| − | * vtkXNATHandler
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| − | * vtkS3Handler
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| − | * vtkSTDIOHandler
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| − | == New /Libs/RemoteIO class '''vtkPasswordPrompter''': ==
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| − | '''vtkPasswordPrompter members:'''
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| − | * Title
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| − | * Prompt
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| − | * UserName
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| − | * Password
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| − | * HelpString
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| − | * Service
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| − | * SavePasswordService (?)
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| − | '''vtkPasswordPrompter methods:'''
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| − | * Get/Set on members
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| − | * Prompt () ( ?stdio text prompting?)
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| − | == New /Base/GUI/vtkSlicerPasswordPrompter class, derived from ''/Libs/RemoteIO/vtkPasswordPrompter'''==
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| − | '''vtkSlicerPasswordPrompter members:'''
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| − | * vtkKWDialog *PromptWindow
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| − | *...
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| − | '''vtkSlicerPasswordPrompter methods:'''
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| − | * DisplayPrompt () (KW dialog-based prompt?)
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| − | = ITK-based mechanism handling remote data (for command line modules, batch processing, and grid processing) (Nicole) = | |
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| − | This one is tenatively on hold for now.
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| − | = Workflows to support =
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| − | The first goal is to figure out what workflows to support, and a good implementation approach.
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| − | Currently, '''Load Scene''', '''Import Scene''', and '''Add Data''' options in Slicer all encapsulate two steps:
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| − | * locating a dataset, usually accomplished through a file browser, and
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| − | * selecting a dataset to initiate loading.
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| − | Then MRML files, Xcede catalog files, or individual datasets are loaded from local disk.
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| − | For loading remote datasets, the following options are available:
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| − | * break these two steps apart explicitly (easiest option),
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| − | * bind them together under the hood,
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| − | * or support both of these paradigms.
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| − | For now, we choose the first option.
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| − | ==Breaking apart "find data" and "load data":==
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| − | '''Possible workflow A'''
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| − | * User downloads .xcat or .xml (MRML) file to disk using the HID or an XNAT web interface
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| − | * From the Load Scene file browser, user selects the .xcat or .xml archive. If no locally cached versions exist, each remote file listed in the archive is downloaded to /tmp directory (always locally cached) by the Asynchronous I/O Manager, and then cached (local) uri is passed to vtkMRMLStorageNode method when download is complete.
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| − | '''Possible workflow B'''
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| − | * User downloads .xcat or .xml (MRML) file to disk using the HID or an XNAT web interface
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| − | * From the Load Scene file browser, user selects the .xcat or .xml archive. If no locally cached versions exist, each remote file in the archive is downloaded to /tmp (only if a flag is set) by the Asynchronous IO Manager, and loaded directly into Slicer via a vtkMRMLStorageNode method when download is complete. (How does load work if we don't save to disk first?)
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| − | '''Workflow C'''
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| − | * describe batch processing example here, which includes saving to local or remote.
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| − | In each workflow, the data gets saved to disk first and then loaded into StorageNode or uploaded to remote location from cache.
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| − | == What data do we need in an .xcat file? ==
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| − | For the fBIRN QueryAtlas use case, we need a combination of '''FreeSurfer morphology analysis''' and a '''FIPS analysis''' of the same subject. With the combined data in Slicer, we can view activation overlays co-registered to and overlayed onto the high resolution structural MRI using the FIPS analysis, and determine the names of brain regions where activations occur using the co-registered morphology analysis.
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| − | The required analyses including all derived data are in two standard directory structures on local disk, and *hopefully* somewhere on the HID within a standard structure (check with Burak). These directory trees contain a LOT of files we don't need... Below are the files we *do* need for fBIRN QueryAtlas use case. | |
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| − | ===FIPS analysis (.feat) directory and required data===
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| − | For instance, the FIPS output directory in our example dataset from Doug Greve at MGH is called sirp-hp65-stc-to7-gam.feat. Under this directory, QueryAtlas needs the following datasets:
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| − | * sirp-hp65-stc-to7-gam.feat/reg/example_func.nii
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| − | * sirp-hp65-stc-to7-gam.feat/reg/freesurfer/anat2exf.register.dat
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| − | * sirp-hp65-stc-to7-gam.feat/stats/(all statistics files of interest)
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| − | * sirp-hp65-stc-to7-gam.feat/design.gif (this image relates statistics files to experimental conditions)
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| − | ===FreeSurfer analysis directory, and required data ===
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| − | For instance, the FreeSurfer morphology analysis directory in our example dataset from Doug Greve at MGH is called fbph2-000670986943. Under this directory, QueryAtlas needs the following datasets:
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| − | * fbph2-000670986943/mri/brain.mgz
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| − | * fbph2-000670986943/mri/aparc+aseg.mgz
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| − | * fbph2-000670986943/surf/lh.pial
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| − | * fbph2-000670986943/surf/rh.pial
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| − | * fbph2-000670986943/label/lh.aparc.annot
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| − | * fbph2-000670986943/label/rh.aparc.annot
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| − | = What do we want HID webservices to provide? =
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| − | * Question: are FIPS and FreeSurfer analyses (including QueryAtlas required files listed above) for subjects available on the HID yet? --Burak says not yet.
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| − | * Given that, can we manually upload an example .xcat and the datasets it points to the SRB, and download each dataset from the HID in Slicer, using some helper application (like curl)?
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| − | * (Eventually.) The BIRN HID webservices shouldn't really need to know the subset of data that QueryAtlas needs... maybe the web interface can take a BIRN ID and create a FIPS/FreeSurfer xcede catalog with all uris (http://....) in the FIPS and FreeSurfer directories, and package these into an Xcede catalog.
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| − | * (Eventually.) The catalog could be requested and downloaded from the HID web GUI, with a name like .xcat or .xcat.gzip or whatever. QueryAtlas could then open this file (or unzip and open) and filter for the relevant uris for an fBIRN or Qdec QueryAtlas session.
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| − | * Then, for each uri in a catalog (or .xml MRML file), we'll use (curl?) to download; so we need all datasets to be publicly readable.
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| − | * Can we create a directory (even a temporary one) on the SRB/BWH HID for Slicer data uploads?
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| − | * We need some kind of upload service, a function call that takes a dataset and a BIRNID and uploads data to appropriate remote directory.
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| − | [[ Slicer3:XCEDE_use_cases | For more info, see this page for more discussion of QueryAtlas's current use of Xcede catalogs, and assumptions... ]]
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| − | = Slicer's Asynchronous I/O Manager =
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| − | [[image:DataIOManager.png]]
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