Miccai 2008 Tutorial

Interfacing third-party software with the NA-MIC open-source toolkit

This tutorial is part of the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2008.

Academic Objectives

The emergence of increasingly sophisticated mathematical models, image analysis and visualization tools that have followed the rapid development of new medical imaging technologies has led to a better understanding of organ functions in human health and disease. For the past four years, the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), one of the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC), part of the NIH Roadmap for medical research, has focused its efforts on the conversion of scientific advances from the biomedical imaging community into an open-source toolkit, so as to improve the availability and deployment of advanced software tools on a national scale. The purpose of this tutorial is to provide the members of the MICCAI community with a practical experience of the image processing and 3D visualization capabilities of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) open-source software toolkit.

Syllabus

The workshop combines introductory lectures on the software components of the NA-MIC kit, with hands-on tutorial sessions that guide the participants through the integration of the open-source tools with third-party software. Participants will be able to interface their own algorithms with the NA-MIC kit to facilitate greater interoperability of advanced medical image analysis software tools. This course is intended for scientists and engineers of the medical image analysis community.

Course Faculty

• Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
• Randy Gollub, M.D., Ph.D., Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
• Steve Pieper, Ph.D., Isomics Inc., Cambridge, MA.
• Jim Miller, Ph.D., Visualization & Computer Vision, GE Research, Niskayuna, NY.

Agenda

• 9:00-9:15 am: Introduction and Goals of the Workshop
• 9:15-9:30 am: Preliminary Session: Software and Data Installation
• 9:30-10:00 am: Overview of the NA-MIC Methodology and Open-Source Software Toolkit
• 10:00-11:00 am: Hands-on Session 1: 3D Data Loading and Visualization
• 11:00-11:15 am: Coffee Break
• 11:15-12:15 pm: Introduction to the Execution Model in 3D Slicer
• 12:15-2:00 pm: Lunch
• 2:00-4:00 pm: Hands-on Session 2: Integrating the NA-MIC kit with an External Program
• 4:00-4:15 pm: Coffee Break
• 4:15-5:15 pm: Hands-on Session 3: Running Tests with the NA-MIC kit
• 5:15-6:00 pm: Panel Discussion and Conclusion

Logistics and Registration

• Date: Wednesday September 10, 2008
• Time: 8am - 12pm, 1pm - 5pm
• Location: New-York City University, NY
• Participants are required to come with their own computer (PC, Linux or MacOS).
• Attendance is limited to 25 participants. To sign-up for this event, please register through the MICCAI 2008 website and send an e-mail with the subject line 'MICCAI 2008: NA-MIC toolkit tutorial' to Sonia Pujol, Ph.D. (spujol at bwh.harvard.edu) with your contact information (Name, Title, Affiliation and Address) and the characteristics of your laptop (OS, RAM, Processor).