2012 Summer Project Week:DTIPrep

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• UIowa: David Welch, Hans Johnson
• Utah: Clement Vachet, Sylvian Gouttard
• UNC: Guido Gerig, Mahshid Farzinfar, Martin Styner

Objective

DTIPrep is a useful tool for automated QA of DWI images, but it has areas where improvement and increased usability could be achieved. We will identify ways to improve user interaction and experience, as well as address any architectural decisions that affect future development. Specific goals are:

1. Fix the behavior of the '--outputFolder' flag to something more intuitive or add alternative method and document current behavior
2. Fix the report of excluded gradients so that the .txt and .xml files are consistant

   • Example 

     Media:DTIPrepMisimatchingTXT.txt Media:DTIPrepMismatchingXML.xml

Approach, Plan

We will meet with the main developers of DTIPrep and discuss user experiences and ways to improve the interface. We will also address any additional enhancements and solutions that is needed for the tool.

Progress

N/A

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a (please select the appropriate options by noting YES against them below)

1. ITK Module
2. Slicer Module
   1. Built-in
   2. Extension -- commandline
   3. Extension -- loadable
3. Other (Please specify)

References

• Z. Liu et al., "Quality control of diffusion weighted images" Proc. SPIE 2010, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 76280J-76280J-9.

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