[IGSTK-Developers] FW: comments from Norway group re IGSTK and planning meeting: for brief discussion tomorrow on tcon

[Kevin Cleary]

Hi Everyone:

 

I have some good news to announce - the Norway group at Trondheim will be
joining the project as noted below. The lead programmer is Frank Lindseth
and the project manager is Jon Kasperson. Frank will attend the Jan 4-5
meeting and has some questions as per below. I think most of these will need
to be deferred until the meeting but I am sending them out now for your
information. Perhaps we can briefly discuss this and their participation at
the tcon tomorrow, but I know we have other agenda items as well.

 

Kevin

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From: Frank Lindseth [mailto:Frank.Lindseth at sintef.no] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:46 PM
To: cleary at georgetown.edu
Cc: Luis Ibanez; Jon Kaspersen
Subject: Re: preliminary schedule for Jan 4-5 planning meeting for next
phase of IGSTK

 

Hi Kevin and Luis,

 

Thank you for the invitation, 

I would be very pleased to attend the kick-off meeting Jan 4-5 in person.

 

I'm also pleased to say that we finally have the necessary acceptance (both
upward and downward in 

the organization) to go for IGStk 100%  in future in-house  IGS developments
(1.1.2007->). 

We are still a bit unsure regarding the best way to merge IGStk with our
excising code-base,

the future of IGStk is an important input to that discussion,

some of the things that will be important for us are:

- an general "imager" component (similar to the tracker comp.) for dynamic
intraoperative imaging (e.g. ultrasound and DynaCT),

(it should be relatively easy to add new system, capable of delivering
intra.op. images (similar to the way the MicronTracker is added to the
Tracker comp.)

- a general coordinate-system framework that can handle multiple pre.op.
dataset, real-time 2D, 3D and (near) real-time 3D intra.op. data 

as well rigid and non-rigid updating of the pre.op. data.

- ultrasound-based navigation (reconstruction, calibration, etc.)

- updating pre.op. data using intra.op. data (image registration)

- GPU based volume rendering (both speed and quality are important)

- Multi-modal image fusion / visualization (e.g. in a given location a
surgical instrument slices through n volumes (pre.and intra. op), in
addition to segmented objects, 

from all the available information, how should the relevant parts be
presented to the surgeon, the possibility to combine info from different
volumes in a single slice is

very important, i.e a slicer object with multiple imputs (volumes) and
functions for the different ways to combine these inputs.   

- high-level spatial components, both in terms of 3D interaction (e.g.
clipping) and the ability to map data (real-time and pre.op.) to some of
these objects

(e.g. an ultrasound-probe (with scan-plane) spatial object should be
associated with a tracker to display it at the right location at all time
AND and imager comp.

to show real-time data (or a mixture of pre. and intra. op. data) on the
scan-plane.

- Proper Qt4, Mac integration

- etc.

 

 

Regards,

Frank

 

 

On 4. des. 2006, at 14.13, Kevin Cleary wrote:





Hi everyone:

 

As most of you know, we will have a planning meeting at Georgetown on Jan
4-5 for the next phase of IGSTK. A start at the proposed schedule is below
my signature. We will discuss this at the tcon this Thursday at 1 pm, and
any feedback is welcome.

 

As far as the contract goes, I have been told by NIBIB that the earliest
start date for the new money is February 1st. It will then take me up to a
month to get subcontracts issued. So my guess is that we will not start work
again in any serious way until March or later. For now we are in maintenance
mode, trying to finish a few things and the book before the SPIE Medical
Imaging meeting in February.

 

For the planning meeting, I suggest we have a core group of the key
developers come to Georgetown and others can teleconference in. Right now, I
am hoping that Luis, David, Kevin Gary, and perhaps Andinet can come, while
Julien, Stephen, Rick, and Will can be available by teleconference for parts
of the meeting. I am also hoping that our Norway partners can come or
teleconference in. And I will invite Terry Yoo, Peter Kazanzides, and Noby
Hata to join us in person or by phone for parts of the meeting in an
advisory capacity (sorry, this may be the first you guys are hearing about
this;).

 

So please see the details below my signature and let me know if you have any
comments or suggestions. Once I clean this up some more, I will post it on
the Wiki.

 

Thanks

 

Kevin

Goal of Meeting: to set the strategic direction and general work plan for
the next three years of IGSTK development

                                             Two day planning meeting:

*Thursday Jan 4: review of project, discussion of issues, strategic
directions for future work

*Friday Jan 5: planning for future work, management plan, action plan and
milestones

                  oState machines: Luis

        oBuilding an application: Patrick

*User perspective: Ziv Yaniv

*Validation activities: Kevin Gary

*Application builder / workflow: Stephen Alyward

*Norway                  perspective: Peter Kazanzides

*NLM perspective: Terry Yoo

*Followed by discussion of:

        oDiscussion of issues

        Friday Jan 5:

*Implementation plan including infrastructure, tools, management

/// That's all ////

 

 

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