2012 Summer Project Week:Overlapping structures

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Key Investigators

  • MGH: Greg Sharp
  • Isomics: Steve Pieper
  • GE: Jim Miller
  • Queen's: Andras Lasso

Objective

We are developing capabilities for Slicer to display and manipulate overlapping structures.

Approach, Plan

An initial approach, used in plastimatch, is to represent structure sets as a vector of unsigned characters, with one bit per structure.

Progress

  • Discussions of target data types and capabilities:
    • Typically around 100meg for a Head/Neck CT
    • Typically no more than 100 structures
  • Goal is to provide lossless representation of original data, with conversion from contours to images for editing and warping
    • Keep original contours as slicer models (view in slices as slice intersections)
    • Provide routines to rasterize contours into label volumes on demand for editing on a per-structure basis
    • Caching if needed
    • Create vector image representation for running warp operations (warp all structures with single evaluation of pixel deformation function)
  • Caveats
    • Tilted planes are sometimes used (drawing on native MRI planes, but structures defined on CT)
    • Drawing done on saggital or coronal, would be good to see "caps" of structures
    • How to group structure sets (e.g. to exchange with module, CLI)?

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a modification of Slicer interals

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