IGT:October 2006 IGT Workshop

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This meeting was successfully held on October 19-20, 2006, with over 75 registered attendees. A summary white paper was published in: DiMaio S.P., Kapur T., Cleary K., Aylward S., Kazanzides P., Vosburgh K.G., Ellis R., Duncan J., Farahani K., Lemke H., Peters T., Lorensen W., Gobbi D., Haller J., Clarke L., Pizer S., Taylor R., Galloway Jr R., Fichtinger G., Hata N., Lawson K., Tempany C.M., Kikinis R., Jolesz F.A. Challenges in Image-guided Therapy System Design. NeuroImage 2007; 37(Suppl 1):S144-S151. PMID: 17644360.

Registration and Attendee List

Registration Fee: US $250.00 payable onsite only by check payable to "BWPO Radiology" or cash. We can not accept credit cards, or payments before the meeting.

Registration: Registration for this workshop is quite simple. To register, please follow two steps:

1. Create an account for yourself on this wiki by clicking here Special:Userlogin
2. After creating the account, go to the 2006 IGT Workshop Attendee List and add your name, Institution, an email address, and the name of the breakout session you will be attending on Friday.

Goal

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers developing Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) systems for a 2-day workshop to share their recent advances and to identify synergies in future strategy. The intent of the workshop is to foster community-based development, to share best practices in engineering such systems, to identify gaps in the engineering infrastructure available to IGT researchers, and ultimately to facilitate the transfer of technology among NIH-sponsored research centers.

In this program, we define IGT systems as the integrated devices for therapy delivery that incorporate intra-operative medical imaging, navigation, or robotics. In the lectures and breakout groups of this two-day workshop, we plan to:

1. discuss system architectures currently used in IGT systems
2. identify challenges in the design and implementation of IGT systems
3. identify gaps in the engineering infrastructure available to IGT researchers
4. identify opportunities and mechanisms for sharing low-level components and high-level architectural design patterns, and
5. identify opportunities for the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT, http://www.ncigt.org) to help address these challenges and develop an open system architecture as part of its function as a biotechnology resource for the Image-Guided Therapy community.

The workshop will concentrate on the computer science and engineering aspects of such systems, as the clinical aspects have been covered in previous NIH-related workshops. The agenda will include plenary talks that will review technical aspects of IGT as well as breakout sessions in which the participants will concentrate on issues raised by the talks.

Background on this workshop: The initial idea of this workshop was developed in ad-hoc meetings with collaborators across institutions including Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, UNC, NIH, GE Global Research, Kitware Inc., and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The Program Committee welcomed and encouraged suggestions from the IGT community on the content of this workshop until mid July, 2006, when the program was finalized.

Sponsors

We would like to gratefully acknowledge our industry sponsors whose financial support is helping us keep the registration fee low.

• GE Healthcare
• Siemens Corporate Research (SCR)
• Northern Digital (NDI)
• Medtronic Navigation
• Brainlab
• Acoustic Med

If your company would like to sponsor the workshop, please send an email to tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu for additional information.

Hotel Logistics

Date: October 19-20 (Thursday-Friday), 2006.

Location/Hotel: The Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Phone number: +1 (301) 468-1100. Room rates for the meeting were US $166/night (+ applicable taxes) for reservations made prior to September 29, 2006 12am using the group code "BRI". After that date, rates revert to the regular ($300+/nt) and we are unable to get the hotel to release additional rooms at the lower rate.

Please note that the conference hotel only has rooms blocked for October 19th night. If you are need accommodation for additional nights, a conveniently located area hotel is the Ramada Inn, 1775 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. Phone (301) 881-2300.

Subway Information

Subway Map

• Directions from Washington Reagan International Airport (DCA) to the Doubletree Hotel:
  • Take the Yellow Line to Gallery Place
    
  • At Gallery Place, switch to the Red Line (going toward Shady Grove)
    
  • Get off at Twinbrook; the Doubletree is across the street
    

Program Committee

Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the Workshop Chair. The program committee includes:

• Kevin Cleary, Ph.D., Georgetown
• Peter Kazanzides, Ph.D, Johns Hopkins
• Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D., NIH
• Bill Lorensen, M.S, GE Global Research
• Stephen Aylward, Ph.D., UNC, Kitware Inc.
• Randy Ellis, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital

Organizing Committee

• Simon DiMaio, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Noby Hata, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Dan Kacher, M.S., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Eigil Samset, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Tina Kapur, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• William M. Wells, Ph.D, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Marianna Jakab, M.S., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Debbie O'Shea Begley, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Workshop Coordinator
• Katie Mastrogiacomo, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Workshop Staff

Agenda

The agenda for the meeting is available here as PDF and MS WORD documents.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

• 1:00-1:10pm: Welcome (Ferenc Jolesz, Brigham and Women's Hospital) Photo
• 1:10-1:15pm: Why Open Source Will Make Our Lives Better (Ron Kikinis, Brigham and Women's Hospital) (Kikinis Talk Summary)
• 1:15-1:20pm: Goals for the Workshop (Randy Ellis, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
• 1:20-1:40pm: IGT System Design (Kevin Cleary, Georgetown University)
• 1:40-2:00pm: IGT Software Design and Process (Bill Lorensen, GE Research)
• 2:00-2:20pm: IGT System Engineering (Peter Kazanzides, Johns Hopkins University)
• 2:20-2:40pm: IGT User Interfaces and Human-Computer Interactions (Randy Ellis, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
• 2:40-3:00pm: Evolution of a VR-Based IGT Environment (Terry Peters & David Gobbi, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario)
• 3:00-3:20pm: System Challenges in Image-Analysis for Radiation Therapy (Steve Pizer, UNC)
• 3:20-3:40pm: Platform Technology for Multiple IGT applications (Bob Galloway, Vanderbilt)
• 3:40-4:00pm: Coffee Break
• 4:00-5:30pm: Panel Discussion I Chair: Jim Duncan, Yale.
• 5:30-6:30pm: Program Committee to capture the discussions and recommendations for the session

Friday, October 20, 2006

• 8:00am: Continental Breakfast
• 8:55am: Welcome back
• 9:00-9:20am: Successes and Challenges in Therapy Delivery (Gabor Fichtinger, Johns Hopkins University)
• 9:20-9:40am: IGT Challenges and Suggestions for Center (Heinz Lemke, Univerity of Southern California/CARS) (see also: The Operating Room and the need for an IT infrastructure and standards)
• 9:40-10:00am:Successes and Challenges in Effectors and Scanner Control (Noby Hata, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
• 10:00-10:15am: NIBIB Perspective on IGT Research (John Haller, NIH)
• 10:15-10:30am: NCI/NIST Perspective on IGT Research (Larry Clarke, NIH)
• 10:30-11:00am: Break
• 11:00-11:40am: Panel Discussion II, Chair: Keyvan Farahani, NIH
• 11:40-11:50pm: Instructions for Breakout Groups
• 11:50-1:00pm: Lunch
• 1:00-2:30pm: Breakout discussions
  • Breakout Session 1: Workflows for IGT (Moderator: Stephen Aylward)
  • Breakout Session 2: Validation (Moderator: Kirby Vosburgh)
  • Breakout Session 3: Interfaces to Robots (Moderator: Peter Kazanzides)
  • Breakout Session 4: Tracking (Moderators: Tina Kapur, Simon DiMaio)
  • Breakout Session 5: IGT Case Study: Radiation Therapy for Prostate (Moderator: Clare Tempany)
• 2:30pm-2:45pm: Coffee Break
• 2:45pm-3:30pm: Plenary Session (report back from each breakout session)
• 3:30pm: Adjourn (all except Program and Organizing Committees)

For Program and Organizing Committee:

• 3:30-4:30pm: Data gathering and documentation planning

Community Links

OpenTracker

• SPLOT - OpenTracker Extension

Related links contributed by Ziv Yaniv

Contact

For further information about the program please contact: Tina Kapur (tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu)

For further information about the registration please contact : Debbie O'Shea Begley (djo at bwh.harvard.edu)

If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the workshop, please contact: Marianna Jakab (marianna at bwh.harvard.edu)