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Agenda

  1. Consultations
  2. Education program
  3. Multi-center trial

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes June 1, 2010

In attendance:

  • Valerie Humblet
  • Randy Gollub
  • Jeff Yap
  • Laura Alice
  • Simon Warfield
  • Gordon Williams
  • Annick Van den Abbeele
  • Gordon Harris
  • Bob Lenkinski
  • Clare Tempany
  • Charles Guttmann


1. Consultations

  • New consultations have been added to JIRA, all are assigned


2. Education

  • Valerie is working on the master calendar, it will be ready for next week meeting.
  • The comments we received from people who attended our advanced imaging series were very good, most of them thought that the level was very good. Some of the non-radiologist people are interested in more basic courses, we could work on a serie: Pet 101, MRI 101, CT 101. More basic courses should also emphasize what you can get from the different modalities (such as the type of quantitative data).
  • This fall we will repeat the 3 sessions we did in the spring (oncology, cardiovascular, neuroimaging). For spring 2010 we will offer new sessions.
  • Simon would like to offer 2 hands-on tutorials: one on segmentation and one on validation using Staple. Charles suggested to compliment the validation with biological validation, association with clinical outcome.
  • Once the new Harvard Catalyst website is launched we will insert link to online material available (RSNA, Osirix)


3. Multicenter trial

  • So far the subgroup met to garther informations:
    • Charles will provide the group with a framework for some talks he runs.
    • Bob talked to Cecil Charles at DUKE who does a lot of MRI, multicenter trials.
    • Jeff is gathering info about current trials in nuclear medicine.
  • The goal is to get an outline ready , create a procedure, for someone who wants to start a multicenter trial. If we have some funding we could do one ourselves.
  • Clare mentioned that it is important for PIs to understand the resources and cost a big multicenter trial requires.
  • QIBA added 2 new groups; COPD and fMRI, they also have a lot of material posted on FDG, DCE-MRI and volumetric CT.