Engineering:GE

Overview (PI: Jim Miller)

GE is adding technology to ITK to support the needs of NA-MIC, developing a module plugin and scheduling architecture for Slicer3, developing a registration architecture, developing standard radiological review modes, and providing DICOM support for diffusion imaging.

GE Research Projects

	Insight Toolkit (ITK) The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source software toolkit for performing registration and segmentation. ITK is used as the principal library for image analysis and general image IO in the 3D Slicer. GE Research has extended ITK to support NA-MIC activities by providing probability distributions, tensor pixels, and displacement transforms.
	Slicer3 Plugin Architecture The 3D Slicer platform has been completely reworked through the joint efforts of the NA-MIC community and the BIRN, NAC, NCIGT, and other cooperative grants that leverage the common infrastructure. GE Research has created a simple plugin architecture that allows researchers to extend Slicer3's capabilities with plugins provided as executables, shared libraries, or python modules. See [| here] for more information. We have recently extended the execution model to include nonlinear transformations (BSpline and Displacement Vectors). We have also revamped the Slicer3 build and installation configurations to allow plugins to be built outside of a Slicer build. See [| here] and [| here] for more information on building plugins outside of Slicer3.
	Registration Architecture
	Radiological Review Modes
[[Image: |200px|]]	DICOM Support for Diffusion Imaging
[[Image: |200px|]]	Robust MRI Measurement Tools Funded through the NCBC collaboration grant mechanism, this project brings together researchers from UNC, UPenn, and GE Research to develop deformable registration and MS lesion segmentation tools.