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=What=
== Planning the 3-year course of the Roadmap project ==

===Engineers ===
*Clement Vachet, DBP engineer, 20% at UNC, working on Iowa DBP, translating NA-MIC technology into use for PREDICT HD
*Mark Scully, DBP engineer at Iowa, Mark & Clement will work closely together, both will attend engineering tcons
*Two major areas: DTI processing and shape analysis

=== DTI Processing ===


Goals: Tools for a longitudinal analysis pipeline of changes measured by fiber tractography to identify white matter tracts that have strong co-morbid degenerative timelines compared to subcortical degeneration over time. Enable the use of the advanced DTI processing in NA-MIC within PREDICT HD. Specifically, adapt all NA-MIC tools to work as individual external Slicer modules (in part they already exist, but need further work), as well as combine them into a single Slicer DTI processing wizard.

Steps/Modules:
* process data from raw DICOM data (enhanced DicomToNRRDConverter)
* DTI QC and motion/eddy current correction (enhanced DTIPrep)
* DTI estimation, property map generation (existing Slicer modules)
* DTI atlas registration (new Slicer module)
* DTI atlas based fiber analysis (new Slicer module)
* Appropriate reporting of all steps
* DTI processing wizard in Slicer
* Longitudinal DTI analysis module
* Fiber profile measurement/visualization within Slicer

=== Shape Analysis ===

=== Data ===

Is the image data already in hand?

*Yes. Over 2900 scan sessions collected.   We will need to identify the meaningful subset of this data, get final approval from the Predict Steering Committee for that subset,and then re-deidentify it and post to XNAT for NA-MIC purposes.

== Outreach ==
*Tutorial(s) on the wiki
*Presentations at HBM, Euro-HD.net, HDSA (The Huntington's Disease Society of America) in year 2
*Hands-on teaching event for the DBP scientific community for year 3

=Who=
*DBP: Hans Johnson, DBP engineer Mark Scully
*Algo: Martin Styner, DBP engineer Clement Vachet
*Eng: Dan Marcus, Jeff Grethe, Marco Ruiz

* Iowa Supporting Guests:  Shuhua Wu, Joy Matsui, Ben Rogers, Vince Magnotta

=When=
* Monday  October 25th, 10:30am - 5:30pm
** 10:30-12:00 Overview of project, and background of PREDICT-HD
** 12:00- 1:00 Lunch
**  1:00- 5:30 Working meeting focused on informatics, computations and processing
**  6:30- 8:30 Dinnner @ One-Twenty-Six
* Tuesday October 26th,  8:00am - 3:30pm
**  8:00-12:00 Working meeting focused on algorithmic development
** 12:00- 1:00 Lunch
**  1:00- 3:30 Finalize timelines
**  3:30- 5:30 Discuss current limitions of XNAT, and determine how to overcome them
* Wednesday October 27th, 9:30am- 3:00pm
**  GridWizard deployment
        
=Where=
The University of Iowa Campus, Meet in W240 Boyd Tower.  The conference room is a short distance away from there in the Iowa Center for Translational Science.

Take elevator BW to the second floor, and take two immediate rights.  The conference room shares a wall with the BW elevator shaft.

== Travel Information ==
The closest airport to Iowa City is the '''Cedar Rapids / Eastern Iowa Airport (CID)'''
which is about 20 minutes from the hotel. 

===Airport Shuttle Services===
The easiest way to get from the airport to
Iowa City is via one of the shuttle services: 
* [http://www.crshuttle.com/ Airport Shuttle Service]   (Phone: 1-800-725-8460)
* [http://www.limosbyexpress.com/ Airport Express]    (Phone: 319-626-5466)
Both are the same price and easiest to book before travel. The cost is roughly $60 round trip.

===Rental Cars===
Rental cars are also available from the Airport. The following companies have desks at the airport
* Avis
** [http://www.avis.com/ Website] 
** Toll-Free Phone : 	1-800-331-1212
** Local Phone : 	(319) 366-6418
* Hertz
** [http://www.hertz.com/ Website] 
**Toll-Free Phone : 	1-800-654-3131
**Local Phone : 	(319) 365-9184
* National and Alamo
** [http://www.nationalcar.com/ Website]
**Toll-Free Phone : 	1-888-826-6890
**Local Phone : 	(319) 363-0249
*Enterprise
**[http://www.enterprise.com/car_rental/home.do Website]
**Local Phone : 	(319) 366-5522


If you have any questions regarding travel, feel free to contact Joe Ekdahl either via e-mail(joe-ekdahl@uiowa.edu) or phone (319-384-3026).

== Hotel Information ==
We reserved a block of hotel rooms at Hotel Vetro at a rate of $139. The group code to get this rate is ITK. These rooms will be held at this rate until October 22.
* [http://www.hotelvetro.com/ Hotel Vetro]
**Phone: 800-592-0355
**Address: 201 South Linn Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52240


Other hotels that are close to the conference site, University of Iowa, and downtown include:
*[http://www.Sheraton.com/IowaCity Sheraton hotel]
**Phone: 319-337-4058
**Address: 210 South Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA 52240
*[http://imu.uiowa.edu/iowahouse/ Iowa House Hotel]
**Phone: 319-335-3513
**Address: 125 North Madison St, Iowa City, IA 52242


== Meeting Room ==

TBD