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Agenda:

1. Consultations: 2 new requests both regarding the use of Slicer, one for kids with cleft palate and one for airway imaging to model sleep apnea in children (JIRA 50)
2. Evaluation Report (document)
3. RSNA

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes November 23, 2009

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Gordon Harris
• Annick Van den Abbeele
• Randy Gollub
• Simon Warfield
• Gordon Williams
• Clare Tempany
• Bob Lenkinski
• Wendy Plesniak
• Ron Kikinis
• Charles Guttmann
• Jeff Yap

1. Consultations

• 3 new consultations were submitted:
  • Dr Katz from CHB who is studying sleep apnea in children. He already met with Simon but wants to know if Slicer has some other capabilities that could be useful for his project. Ron will be the consultant.
  • Dr Sonis, DMD from CHB, working with children with cleft palate. Would like to know if Slicer could be used to monitor volumetric growth of the graft used to repair the cleft palate. He is also interested in #D skin rendering. Ron will be the consultant.
  • Dr Aaron Cypess who worked with the consortium before has some additional questions regarding his brown fat visualization program. Jeff will be the consultant.

2. Slicer tutorial and RSNA

• The practice run of the Slicer training that will be offered during the RSNA meeting took place on Monday November 23. The feedback from the audience was very good, several people are now interested in using it for their own research. Note for the next hands-on Slicer training: get a hard copy of a survey to fill at the end of the tutorial.
• At the RSNA meeting, Wendy will do the following hands-on tutorial: Slicer 3 minutes, PET/CT and change tracker. Kasia will integrate some of the DCE-MRI slides in her talk.
• For people interested in using Slicer and willing to develop a new application, the consultation is free as part of the consultation service offered by Harvard Catalyst but for development; any project needs a funding source. There is a NA-MIC project week, which is a hands-on week of programming [[1]] using Slicer among others NA-MIC tools.
• The group decided that it should offer a couple more Slicer hands-on workshops. Each workshop should also be offered at MGH. They probably don’t have an electronic teaching classroom like the one at Countway but then attendee will be asked to bring a laptop loaded with the software and the datasets. The schedule will be the following:
  • A repeat of the one offered on November 23
  • Slicer basic: data loading and 3D visualization
  • Automatic segmentation of brain structures
  • Processing of diffusion weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging data in Slicer3
• Clare mentioned that on February 26, there is the Partners Research Retreat; she suggested that we contact the organizers (Scott Gazelle, Umar Mahmood and Geoff Young) to offer to fit in a brief presentation about the Catalyst programs during the retreat (8 am-1 pm) and possibly an optional afternoon session following lunch, with educational sessions hosted by the Catalyst Imaging group
  • Randy will write a draft e-mail and Gordon Harris will follow up with the organizers of the retreat.
• The Slicer hands-on workshops might qualify for CME credit. Valerie will investigate with the help of Michelle Foley from Catalyst Central. Marylen ODay for Partners Research and Nancy Trane from BWH will also be a good source of information on how to get CME approval.

3. Evaluation Report

• The consortium reviewed the new version of the evaluation report. Valerie will send the updated version to Michele Sinunu at Catalyst Central.