[Tubetk-developers] Collecting testing data using our ultrasound image acquisition pipeline and abdominal phantom

[Stephen Aylward]

Would you be interested in posting some of this as a mini-grand
challenge?   That is, pre-identify some as training data and others as
testing data.  Or specify a good experimental design (including
metrics) for others to follow.   So, people using the data will then
be more likely to present studies that could be meaningfully compared.

Note that I am not suggesting that we sequester data and such, but by
pre-identifying the data and asking people to be honest in their use
of the training/testing sets, we can get more from this data.

I've also CC'd Patrick.   I know he is interested in hosting grand
challenges at challenge.kitware.com - perhaps this would fit.

s

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Matt McCormick
<matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Andinet,
>
> Excellent.  It will be great to have some good testing data for
> algorithm development.  If you can record the pose of the ultrasound
> transducer well enough relative to the CT acquisition, a "known truth"
> will be very useful... i.e. what Danielle said before I hit Send ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Andinet Enquobahrie
> <andinet.enqu at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hi Matt
>>
>> My next plan is to generate testing data for our new ultrasound
>> simulation filters using the ultrasound image acquisition pipeline and
>> abdominal phantom we have here at KRS.  Here is what I have in mind.
>>
>> 1) Record pose of the ultrasound probe for every frame
>> 2) Generate several datasets with different sweeping pattern
>>
>> The idea is we will "compare" these "baseline" ultrasound scans with
>> the ones that we will simulate from the CT scan of the abdominal
>> phantom using the same sweeping pattern. Sounds good?
>>
>> I need to add some functionality to the PLUS library to make this
>> possible. I am going to focus on that in the next few days.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts and if you need a different set of testing dataset.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andinet
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andinet Enquobahrie, Ph.D.
>> Technical Lead
>> Kitware, Inc.
>>
>> http://www.kitware.com
>> (919) 969-6990 x311
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