View source for 20100323GeorgetownVisit

=Agenda=
==Aim 2: Treatment planning==
*Optimization is still in development. Issue with real-time. Doesn't necessary affect H Liu's task.
*10-20 realistic cases from CT-guided RF retrospective analysis. BWH provides images, ???? segments as tumor as pre-processing. GW/GT run the cases. Gold standard GT physicians. GW take lead in publication. 
** BWH action item - obtain images from CT RF cases.
*Is milestone met? we are supposed to do 10 cases. We are on track.

==Aim 2: Segmentation==
*Sota presented on-line live demonstration of liver segmentation.
*Sota presented deformable registration methods in CTg liver/kidney.
**parameter optimization
*tumor segmentation is not necessary.

* Not much work has been done for vessel segmentation. Ron strongly suggest VMTK for vessel segmentation.
** [ Action Items for Sota] Sota will look into the usefulness of the vessel segmentation (VMTK) in Slicer during this trip.
** S Aylward, looking into vessel segmentation.

==Aim 3: System Integration==
*H Liu presented status of Slicer interface for RF ablation
*H Liu will add manual needle planning to supplement "the automatic planning and optimization."
*Everyone agreed that we do a mock procedure using Slicer for planning and IGSTK for navigation.
*H Liu and Z Yaniv coordinate data exchange plan.
*Mock procedure to be done during summer.