2007 December Slicer IGT Programming

Dates.Location.Hotels

December 12-14, 2007

SPL at 1249 Boylston Street, Boston MA. (Directions)

Area hotels: Boston_Hotels

Goal

• Continued discussion of Slicer IGT infrastructure, applications, and timelines
• Introduce each team's effort in Slicer in the context of IGT
• active funding&future submissions
• on-going technical development
• find unmet needs

Agenda

Wednesday, December 12

Theme: Where are we?

• 12noon: lunch
• 12:55pm: Welcome (Ferenc Jolesz)
• 1-2pm:
  • Slicer: overview of architecture, current status, and future plans (Pieper, Hata)
    • History
    • Clinical applications
    • transition from 2.6 to 3
    • resource
  • IGSTK: overview of architecture, current status, and future plans (Ibanez, Cheng)
• 2-3pm: Setting goals for meeting: Each IGT group present what they want to achieve at this meeting.
  • 2-2:15 - NA-MIC DBP Queens/JHU Gobbi/Csoma/Kazanzides
  • 2:15-2:30 - NA-MIC Collaborator Georgetown Cleary/Yaniv
  • 2:30-2:45 - NCIGT BWH Hata
  • 2:45-3:00 - Kitware
  • 3:00-3:15pm - NCIGT CIGL Stoll

• 3:15-3:30pm: Coffee Break
• 3:30pm Adjourn
• 4-6pm (optional) demonstration of Slicer for control and display of MRI scanner (prostate module) @Advanced MRI center, 221 Longwood
  • See 2007_December_Slicer_IGT_Programming_MRI_DEMO

Thursday, December 13

Morning Theme: Where are we?

• 9:00am breakfast, start work

• 9-1030am Discussion over Demos:
  • Stoll (laproscopic ultrasound)
  • Hata (Tracking at BWH)
  • Yaniv (Tracking at Georgetown)
  • Pieper (Volume rendering)

• 10:30am: coffee break
• 11am: continue work

Review of demos

• • which function is cool?
  • which functionality has to be shared
  • what is the common needs?
  • who has those missing functions outside of IGT?

• 12:30: lunch
• 1:30pm: continue work

Afternoon Theme: Where are we going?

• • Resource shring
  • priority tasks
  • Hypothetical RO1

• 3-4pm: Coffee break (and NA-MIC TCON)
• 4:00pm: Plan for Hands on IGT Week
• 5pm: Review day and plan for Friday (Hata)
• 5:30pm: adjourn

Friday, December 14

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• 9:00am: breakfast, work
  • Focus group discussion (What do we do now?)
  • Report to NCIGT
  • Action items
• 11:15am-noon: Wrapup/Suggestion to NCIGT PIs (Hata)
• noon: adjourn and head out to group lunch

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Confirmed Attendees

1. Noby Hata, BWH (NCIGT)
2. Steve Pieper, Isomics - (All Days) (NAMIC, NAC)
3. Patrick Cheng, Georgetown (NAMIC Collab)
4. Ziv Yaniv, Georgetown (NAMIC Collab)
5. Kevin Cleary, Georgetown (Wed only) (NAMIC Collab)
6. Luis Ibanez, Kitware (NAMIC)
7. Sebastien Barre, Kitware (NCIGT)
8. Stephen Aylward, Kitware (NCIGT)
9. Jeff Stoll (except Thursday), BWH/CIMIT (NCIGT)
10. Haiying Liu, BWH (NCIGT)
11. Katie Hayes, BWH (NAC)
12. Peter Kazanzides (except Friday), JHU (NAMIC Collab)
13. Csaba Csoma, JHU (NAMIC/NCIGT Collab)
14. David Gobbi, Queens (NAMIC/NCIGT Collab)
15. Tina Kapur,BWH (NAMIC/NCIGT)
16. Ron Kikinis, BWH (NAMIC/NCIGT)
17. Junichi Tokuda, BWH (NCIGT)
18. Raul San Jose, BWH (NAC)
19. Ferenc Jolesz, BWH (Wed only) (NCIGT/NAC)