[IGSTK-Developers] IGSTK student project

[Kevin Cleary]

Hi all:

Excellent work all around! I think this shows the value of the toolkit in
the educational setting and I may want to feature this at an IGSTK demo we
will do on Sunday Feb 17 at the SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting in San Diego. I
am the IGSTK project principal investigator and I enjoyed the video very
much as it shows the concepts of image-guided surgery well.

I agree with Luis that it would be great to contribute the code to the
library. While the microscribe device is not used in clinical practice
anymore (it is too cumbersome and has been largely replaced by optical and
electromagnetic tracking) it it still an excellent device for demonstration
and laboratory purposes. So there is certainly a strong possibility that
others may want to build a system with the microscribe device in the future.

I do have one question for Luis: how will our current refactoring of the
toolkit affect this code? Will they have to update the code to work with the
latest version of IGSTK? Or will we potentially have demos that are
dependent on using a certain version of IGSTK?

Happy Holidays to All.

Kevin Cleary

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From: igstk-developers-bounces+cleary=georgetown.edu at public.kitware.com
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 1:19 PM
To: Luis Ibanez
Cc: Samah Johnson; Mark Henderson; Uven Chong; Misagh; Pallavi Pershey;
IGSTK developers; Janakiram Dandibhotla; Alan de Pennington; Danny Carlson;
Subhash Uppalapati
Subject: Re: [IGSTK-Developers] IGSTK student project

Hi Luis,

It is my understanding that they have. I have not reviewed the code however,
to determine if it adheres to IGSTK best practices. I will do so after our
semester break. I am not quite certain what benefit a microscribe class
would have to IGSTK as it is not a surgical device?

The project team will contribute code for the pin pointer device when it is
completed in the Spring.

Thanks for your feedback. I trust the students have properly simulated the
registration and tracking scenarios accurately then?

Happy holidays IGSTK folks.

Kevin


Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> This is Great !
> 
> Congratulations.
> 
> Did the students write a Tracker class for interfacing to the 
> Microscribe device ?
> 
> If so, could you contribute this Tracker class to the repository ?
> 
> 
>    Thanks
> 
> 
>       Luis
> 
> 
> 
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> Kevin Gary wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I emailed the list last month about a student capstone project for 
>> neurosurgery using IGSTK. The aim is to have mechanical engineers 
>> create a pin-pointer like device to replace a stereotactic frame for 
>> path planning in emergency clinics in developing countries.
>>
>> The initial prototype took the needle biopsy application and some 
>> data Patrick provided (thanks Patrick!) and integrated a microscribe 
>> pen device as the pin pointer (as it has 5 degrees of freedom). The 
>> students were able to register and track against a phantom head (the 
>> "head of Hector" as we call it in the lab).
>>
>> A crude video is on youtube
>> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZajOrNa5uhc, or search on igstk) 
>> showing registration and tracking. If anyone wants to view and 
>> provide feedback to the students, we would welcome it. Next semester 
>> they hope to work with a device the MEs create in the machine shop.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> K2
>>
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