3D Ultrasound Module in Slicer 3

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People

Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA:

Nobuhiko Hata, PhD (Slicer IGT Project Director)
Haiying Liu
Junichi Tokuda, PhD
Benjamin Grauer

SJTU, Shanghai, China

Lixu Gu, PhD (Director of IGST)
Yan Sun, PhD

• Developers:

Tingting Xi
Shuqin Ding
Ziying Jiang
Qingfeng Jin

• supporters:

Size Lv
Jun Ye
Ze Luo
Pengyan Hou
Guangchao Zheng

• Clinical Members:

Weiwei Zhan (Director of Ultrasound department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai)
Jianqiao Zhou (Ultrasound Radiologist, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai)

Robarts Research Institute and University of Western Ontario, Canada:

Terry Peters, PhD (Director of VASST Lab)
Danielle Pace

Queen's University, Canada:

David Gobbi, PhD

Summary of Project

This project is aimed to develop a comprehensive plug-in module for slicer 3, which is used for 3D ultrasound(US) image acquisition by using a traditional 2D US scanner. The module should be functioned with 3D US scanning, reconstruction and visualization, and could be used for clinical applications in Liver CAD, Prostate IGT and Cardiac Surgery Navigation.
The project is a joint research activity between SPL of Harvard University and IGST Lab in Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.

Project Schedule

• 03/01/2008 - 03/31/2008
  • Slicer IGT Training
• 04/01/2008 - 04/30/2008
  • Set up hardware for ultrasound probe tracking
  • 3D ultrasound image acquisition and reconstruction
  • 3D ultrasound image visualization
  • Developing 3D Ultrasound module in Slicer 3
• 05/01/2008 - 05/31/2008
  • Phantom experiment
  • Assessment of accuracy
  • Animal trials
• 06/01/2008 - 06/31/2008
  • Clinical trials
  • Liver application

Slicer IGT Training

Week of 03/03:

• Agenda:
  • Time: March 6, Thursday, 9:30 am - 12:00 noon
  • Instructors: Haiying Liu and Lixu Gu
  • Audience: Graduate students at SJTU, Shanghai, China
  • Topic: Slicer 3 architecture, download, build, doxygen, data loading, volume visualization, data saving
  • Communication: Long distance phone between Boston, USA and Shanghai, China; Skype
• Materials: Slicer basics
  
• Issues: Accessing to Slicer code is extremely slow. We fedexed a CD with latest Slicer code to Shanghai.

Week of 03/10:

• Agenda:
  • Time: March 13, Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
  • Instructors: Haiying Liu and Lixu Gu
  • Audience: Graduate students at SJTU, Shanghai, China
  • Topic: Command line module, how to add one into Slicer 3, how to write a filter inside Slicer 3.
  • Communication: Long distance phone between Boston, USA and Shanghai, China; Skype
• Materials: How to create a command line module
  

Week of 03/24:

• Agenda:
  • Time: March 27, Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
  • Instructors: Haiying Liu and Lixu Gu
  • Audience: Graduate students at SJTU, Shanghai, China
  • Topic: Aurora connection to computer, compiling IGSTK and IGSTKSandbox, acquiring tracking data from Aurora, sending tracking data to Slicer 3, Slicer 3 display update as new data coming in.
  • Communication: Long distance phone between Boston, USA and Shanghai, China; Skype
• Materials: Navigation with Aurora
  

Week of 03/31:

• Agenda:
  • Time: April 3, Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
  • Instructors: Benjamin Grauer and Haiying Liu
  • Audience: Graduate students at SJTU, Shanghai, China
  • Topic: Application of OpenIGTLink and volume rendering in Slicer 3.
  • Communication: Long distance phone between Boston, USA and Shanghai, China; Skype
• Materials:
  • OpenIGTLink: A network protocol
  • OpenIGTLink & 4D Ultrasound 1
    
  • OpenIGTLink & 4D Ultrasound 2
    
  • Volume rendering
    

Events

04/17/2008 10am

• TCOM
• Topic: Ultrasound module for Slicer 3
  • 1) requirements
  • 2) components
  • 3) task breaks
  • 4) time frame
  • 5) experiments
  • 6) clinical trials
  • 7) packaging and distributions
• People: Noby, Haiying, Benjamin, Lixu, Terry, Danielle, David

Work in progress datasets

See the link here

Useful Links

• GPU accelerated medical image processing for IGT
• VTK-Mist integration for fast volume rendering
• Slicer 3 VisualBlog
• Slicer 3 Coding Style