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<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We could also add a VRPN interface to Plus, which would allow clients to access all VRPN-supported devices through OpenIGTLink protocol.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be awesome!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">From:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:lasso@queensu.ca" target="_blank">Andras Lasso</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Sent:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">2015-11-28 09:04</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">To:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:andinet.enqu@kitware.com" target="_blank">Andinet Enquobahrie</a>;
<a href="mailto:pieper@isomics.com" target="_blank">Steve Pieper</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Cc:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:ctk-developers@commontk.org" target="_blank">ctk-developers@commontk.org</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Subject:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">RE: [Ctk-developers] Fwd: IGT software collaboration intro meeting</span><br>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">OpenIGTLink is becoming widely used in robotics projects, with participation of various robotics companies and research groups, so support of device positioning and force feedback is already good and
will further improve in OpenIGTLink. Junichi/BWH recently received NIH funding to work on this.<br>
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The CISST library already can be used as an OpenIGTLink-PhantomOmni bridge, but support for the device could be certainly added to Plus, too. If you have a device and a developer that could add a new Device class to Plus, we would be happy to help.<br>
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Andras</div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">From:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:andinet.enqu@kitware.com" target="_blank">Andinet Enquobahrie</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Sent:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">2015-11-28 07:52</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">To:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:pieper@isomics.com" target="_blank">Steve Pieper</a>;
<a href="mailto:lasso@queensu.ca" target="_blank">Andras Lasso</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Cc:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:ctk-developers@commontk.org" target="_blank">ctk-developers@commontk.org</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Subject:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Re: [Ctk-developers] Fwd: IGT software collaboration intro meeting</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Steve,
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<div>Thanks for the heads up! It looks like a very interesting project. It is great to see our old friends from SINTEF joining in the effort. We will try to join in the Google hangout on December 7.</div>
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<div>Andras,<br>
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<div>For our tracking needs, we obviously use PLUS a lot and we will continue to do that in our IGT projects.</div>
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<div>For our surgical simulation projects, we use force feedback haptics devices such as Phantom Omni and we have been looking into VRPN</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://github.com/vrpn/vrpn/wiki" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://github.com/vrpn/vrpn/wiki</a><br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">VRPN supports a large collection of haptic devices</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://github.com/vrpn/vrpn/wiki/Supported%20hardware%20devices" target="_blank">https://github.com/vrpn/vrpn/wiki/Supported%20hardware%20devices</a></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">But, looking at the large list of devices PLUS continues to support </div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.assembla.com/spaces/plus/wiki" target="_blank">https://www.assembla.com/spaces/plus/wiki</a></span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I was wondering if force feedback haptics devices support is also in the roadmap.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8px">thanks,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Andinet</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Steve Pieper <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:pieper@isomics.com" target="_blank">pieper@isomics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi CTKers -
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<div>Just FYI about discussions we are having leading up to project week in January. Anyone who's interested is welcome to join.</div>
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<div>-Steve</div>
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Andras Lasso</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lasso@queensu.ca" target="_blank">lasso@queensu.ca</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:23 PM<br>
Subject: RE: IGT software collaboration intro meeting<br>
To: Christian Askeland <<a href="mailto:Christian.Askeland@sintef.no" target="_blank">Christian.Askeland@sintef.no</a>>, Simon Drouin <<a href="mailto:drouin.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">drouin.simon@gmail.com</a>>, Junichi Tokuda <<a href="mailto:tokuda@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank">tokuda@bwh.harvard.edu</a>>,
Steve Pieper <<a href="mailto:pieper@isomics.com" target="_blank">pieper@isomics.com</a>>, Tamas Ungi <<a href="mailto:ungi@queensu.ca" target="_blank">ungi@queensu.ca</a>>, Adam Rankin <<a href="mailto:arankin@robarts.ca" target="_blank">arankin@robarts.ca</a>><br>
Cc: "Kapur, Tina,Ph.D." <<a href="mailto:TKAPUR@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank">TKAPUR@bwh.harvard.edu</a>>, "Norton, Isaiah" <<a href="mailto:inorton@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank">inorton@bwh.harvard.edu</a>>, Alireza Mehrtash <<a href="mailto:alireza.mehrtash@gmail.com" target="_blank">alireza.mehrtash@gmail.com</a>>,
Prashin Unadkat <<a href="mailto:unadkatprashin@gmail.com" target="_blank">unadkatprashin@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:tormod.selbekk@sintef.no" target="_blank">tormod.selbekk@sintef.no</a>" <<a href="mailto:tormod.selbekk@sintef.no" target="_blank">tormod.selbekk@sintef.no</a>>,
Janne Beate Lervik Bakeng <<a href="mailto:Janne.Beate.Lervik.Bakeng@sintef.no" target="_blank">Janne.Beate.Lervik.Bakeng@sintef.no</a>>, Ingerid Reinertsen <<a href="mailto:Ingerid.Reinertsen@sintef.no" target="_blank">Ingerid.Reinertsen@sintef.no</a>>, Thomas
Langø <<a href="mailto:Thomas.Lango@sintef.no" target="_blank">Thomas.Lango@sintef.no</a>>, Frank Lindseth <<a href="mailto:Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no" target="_blank">Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no</a>>, "D. Louis Collins" <<a href="mailto:louis.collins@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">louis.collins@mcgill.ca</a>>,
Gabor Fichtinger <<a href="mailto:fichting@queensu.ca" target="_blank">fichting@queensu.ca</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thanks for the very productive meeting today. I’ve uploaded the meeting minutes to the NAMIC week’s project page (thanks to Christian for the inputs):<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2016_Winter_Project_Week:TrackedUltrasoundStandardization" target="_blank">http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2016_Winter_Project_Week:TrackedUltrasoundStandardization</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We plan to have one or two more similar meetings before the project week to continue the discussion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">For all those who plan to attend the project week: please request an account at the NAMIC wiki (<a href="http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Special:RequestAccount" target="_blank">http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Special:RequestAccount</a>).
It’ll allow you to register to the event, edit the project page, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Andras<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Andras Lasso
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<b>Sent:</b> November 19, 2015 6:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christian Askeland <<a href="mailto:Christian.Askeland@sintef.no" target="_blank">Christian.Askeland@sintef.no</a>>; Simon Drouin <<a href="mailto:drouin.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">drouin.simon@gmail.com</a>>; 'Junichi Tokuda' <<a href="mailto:tokuda@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank">tokuda@bwh.harvard.edu</a>>;
Steve Pieper <<a href="mailto:pieper@isomics.com" target="_blank">pieper@isomics.com</a>>; Thomas Langø <<a href="mailto:Thomas.Lango@sintef.no" target="_blank">Thomas.Lango@sintef.no</a>>; Frank Lindseth <<a href="mailto:Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no" target="_blank">Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no</a>>;
D. Louis Collins <<a href="mailto:louis.collins@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">louis.collins@mcgill.ca</a>>; Tamas Ungi <<a href="mailto:ungi@queensu.ca" target="_blank">ungi@queensu.ca</a>>; Gabor Fichtinger <<a href="mailto:fichting@queensu.ca" target="_blank">fichting@queensu.ca</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> IGT software collaboration intro meeting<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thanks for the doodle poll responses. Based on those,
<b>November 23, Monday, 9am EST</b> (probably 3pm Norway time) is the most suitable.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">You should be able to join the meeting through the google hangout link on this page:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="https://plus.google.com/events/ceo6eum5ja3rhjgjed29eiu67b8?authkey=COHXmfavj620Fg" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/events/ceo6eum5ja3rhjgjed29eiu67b8?authkey=COHXmfavj620Fg</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">This will be an informal meeting to get to know each other and define priorities for the next couple of months, in preparation for the project week in January.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Andras<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Andras Lasso
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 17, 2015 5:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christian Askeland <<a href="mailto:Christian.Askeland@sintef.no" target="_blank">Christian.Askeland@sintef.no</a>>; Simon Drouin <<a href="mailto:drouin.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">drouin.simon@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Thomas Langø <<a href="mailto:Thomas.Lango@sintef.no" target="_blank">Thomas.Lango@sintef.no</a>>; Frank Lindseth <<a href="mailto:Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no" target="_blank">Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no</a>>; Gabor Fichtinger <<a href="mailto:fichting@queensu.ca" target="_blank">fichting@queensu.ca</a>>;
Ron Kikinis (<a href="mailto:kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank">kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu</a>) <<a href="mailto:kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank">kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu</a>>; Karilee Whiteway <<a href="mailto:karilee.whiteway@queensu.ca" target="_blank">karilee.whiteway@queensu.ca</a>>;
D. Louis Collins <<a href="mailto:louis.collins@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">louis.collins@mcgill.ca</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: EU Twinning Programme /Objectives<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Christian, thanks for the great summary of topics, these would all serve as good basis of collaboration and convergence in IGT software.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We’ve recently had a discussion at Montreal Neurological Institute (Louis D Collins’ group: Simon Drouin, Ian Gerard, Marta Kersten, et al.), they are also
very interested in integrating/migrating their software to 3DSlicer-SlicerIGT-Plus, share algorithms, etc, and they, too, will come to the project week to Boston in January.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I would suggest to have a teleconference to introduce ourselves to each other and discuss what topics we should focus on first. Christian, Simon (and everyone
else interested in this Project week planning meeting), please mark your availability in this doodle poll:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://doodle.com/poll/9u5vqbtr4qk6famg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">http://doodle.com/poll/9u5vqbtr4qk6famg</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Andras<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Christian Askeland [</span><a href="mailto:Christian.Askeland@sintef.no" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">mailto:Christian.Askeland@sintef.no</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">]
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<b>Sent:</b> November 17, 2015 1:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andras Lasso <</span><a href="mailto:lasso@queensu.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">lasso@queensu.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Thomas Langø <</span><a href="mailto:Thomas.Lango@sintef.no" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thomas.Lango@sintef.no</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>; Frank
Lindseth <</span><a href="mailto:Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Frank.Lindseth@sintef.no</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>; Gabor Fichtinger
<</span><a href="mailto:fichting@queensu.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">fichting@queensu.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>; Ron Kikinis (</span><a href="mailto:kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">)
<</span><a href="mailto:kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>; Karilee Whiteway <</span><a href="mailto:karilee.whiteway@queensu.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">karilee.whiteway@queensu.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: EU Twinning Programme /Objectives<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Andras, Gabor, all,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Your suggesion regarding EU Twinning Programme came at the perfect time for me - I was just about to send you, Andras, an email regarding the Winter Project Week in January. We have discussed a bit in an email thread originating in the
OpenIGTLink list some weeks ago, I’ll continue from there.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our group will be present in Boston with 1-2 software people, so it would be great to start the work there, and then continue in Heidelberg and beyond. We would like to work in integration of CustusX+PLUS, and on IGT standardization in
general. I hope both of these topics are of interest to you. In Boston we will focus the work on CustusX+PLUS, but we can also discuss standardization (also including the Slicer people and others) and then focus more on this in Heidelberg, as I imagine this
topic will need time to mature.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below is a quick first draft of my thoughts. Andras, please iterate and/or suggest topics. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Proposal for cooperation projects PerkLab/PLUS group, SINTEF/CustusX group, (+ others).</b><br>
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<b>Enhance connection of CustusX client to PLUS server:</b><br>
Background: CustusX has used PLUS to connect to an Ultrasonix scanner with an attached tracking device from Ascension (Sonix GPS), as part of the EU RASimAs project. CustusX also has tracking support from the IGSTK toolkit, and own direct support for a number
of video/US devices. We would like to add PLUS to this family, poosibly replacing some of our older components.<br>
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Topics:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Tracking of BrainLab devices.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Enhance transfer of US probe metadata. Might include extending the OpenIGTLink standard.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Use of PLUS US reconstruction algorithms in CustusX as an alternative to CX internal algorithms, and enable comparison of algorithms.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Standardization of IGT software.</b><br>
Background:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Emails, major players converge towards IGTLink. Several groups are using PLUS and/or Slicer, but also open-sourcing their own software and want to be compatible with each other.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Data should be usable by several systems in order to ease comparison in e.g. studies.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Our group need to communicate models and volumes with Slicer, and would like to use PLUS.<u></u><u></u></p>
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There are several areas where standardization would be beneficial:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• algorithms/shared libraries.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is important to build as much as possible on existing material and de facto standards.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Messaging: OpenIGTLink is the de facto standard for messaging. Is the standard complete? What do we need? US-probe data, polydata colors, volume transfer functions /LUTs.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• File Formats: Models, Volumes, Video streams, US metadata, scenegraph. Some of these objects are already somewhat standardized, but not all.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Algorithms: A library of IGT algorithms would be welcome. It might be included into an existing library (VTK, CTK, …) or emerge as a new one.<u></u><u></u></p>
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