2009 Summer Project Week

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• Dates: June 22-26, 2009
• Location: MIT. Grier Rooms A & B: 34-401A & 34-401B.

Introduction to the FIRST JOINT PROJECT WEEK

We are pleased to announce the FIRST JOINT PROJECT WEEK of hands-on research and development activity for Image-Guided Therapy and Neuroscience applications. Participants will engage in open source programming using the NA-MIC Kit, algorithm design, medical imaging sequence development, tracking experiments, and clinical application. The main goal of this event is to move forward the translational research deliverables of the sponsoring centers and their collaborators. Active and potential collaborators are encouraged and welcome to attend this event. This event will be set up to maximize informal interaction between participants.

Active preparation will begin on Thursday, April 16th at 3pm ET, with a kick-off teleconference. Invitations to this call will be sent to members of the sponsoring communities, their collaborators, past attendees of the event, as well as any parties who have expressed an interest in working with these centers. The main goal of the kick-off call is to get an idea of which groups/projects will be active at the upcoming event, and to ensure that there is sufficient coverage for all. Subsequent teleconferences will allow for more focused discussions on individual projects and allow the hosts to finalize the project teams, consolidate any common components, and identify topics that should be discussed in breakout sessions. In the final days leading upto the meeting, all project teams will be asked to fill in a template page on this wiki that describes the objectives and plan of their projects.

The event itself will start off with a short presentation by each project team, driven using their previously created description, and will help all participants get acquainted with others who are doing similar work. In the rest of the week, about half the time will be spent in breakout discussions on topics of common interest of subsets of the attendees, and the other half will be spent in project teams, doing hands-on project work. The hands-on activities will be done in 30-50 small teams of size 2-4, each with a mix of multi-disciplinary expertise. To facilitate this work, a large room at MIT will be setup with several tables, with internet and power access, and each computer software development based team will gather on a table with their individual laptops, connect to the internet to download their software and data, and be able to work on their projects. Teams working on projects that require the use of medical devices will proceed to Brigham and Women's Hospital and carry out their experiments there. On the last day of the event, a closing presentation session will be held in which each project team will present a summary of what they accomplished during the week.

This event is part of the translational research efforts of NA-MIC, NCIGT, NAC, Harvard Catalyst, and CIMIT. It is an expansion of the NA-MIC Summer Project Week that has been held annually since 2005. It will be held every summer at MIT and Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, typically during the last full week of June, and in Salt Lake City in the winter, typically during the second week of January.

A summary of all past NA-MIC Project Events that this FIRST JOINT EVENT is based on is available here.

Agenda

• Monday
  • noon-1pm lunch
  • 1pm: Welcome (Ron Kikinis)
  • 1:05-3:30pm Introduce Projects using templated wiki pages (all Project Leads) (Wiki Template)
  • 3:30-5:30pm Start project work
• Tuesday
  • 8:30am breakfast
  • 9:30-10am: NA-MIC Kit Overview (Jim Miller)
  • 10-10:30am Slicer 3.4 Update (Steve Pieper)
  • 10:30-11am Slicer IGT and Imaging Kit Update Update (Noby Hata, Scott Hoge)
  • 11am-12:00pm Breakout Session: 2009 Project Week Breakout Session: Slicer-Python (Demian W)
  • noon lunch
  • 2:30pm-5pm: Data Clinic (Ron Kikinis)
  • 5:30pm adjourn for day
• Wednesday
  • 8:30am breakfast
  • 9am-12pm Breakout Session: 2009 Project Week Breakout Session: ITK (Luis Ibanez)
  • noon lunch
  • 2:30pm: Breakout Session: 2009 Project Week Breakout Session: 3D+T Microscopy Cell Dataset Segmentation (Alex G.)
  • 5:30pm adjourn for day
• Thursday
  • 8:30am breakfast
  • 9-11am Tutorial Contest Presentations
  • noon lunch
  • 2:30pm: Breakout Session: 2009 Project Week Breakout Session: XNAT for Programmers (Dan M.)
  • 5:30pm adjourn for day
• Friday
  • 8:30am breakfast
  • 10am-noon: Tutorial Contest Winner Announcement and Project Progress Updates
    • Noon: Lunch boxes and adjourn by 1:30pm.
    • We need to empty room by 1:30. You are welcome to use wireless in Stata.
    • Please sign up for the developer mailing lists
    • Next Project Week in Utah, January 4-8, 2010

Projects

1. Cortical Thickness Pipeline (Clement Vachet UNC)
2. Prostate Robotics (Junichi Tokuda BWH)
3. Need Lupus Project here
4. Need VCSF Project here
5. 2009_Summer_Project_Week_Project_Segmentation_of_Muscoskeletal_Images (Saikat Pal Stanford)
6. Liver Ablation in Slicer (Ziv Yaniv Georgetown)
7. Measuring Alcohol Stress Interaction (Vidya Rajgopalan Virginia Tech)
8. Skull Stripping (Snehasish Roy JHU)
9. IAFE Mesh Modules - improvements and testing (Curt Lisle Knowledge Vis)
10. Adaptive Radiotherapy - Deformable registration and DICOMRT (Greg Sharp MGH)
11. SLicer3, BioImage Suite and Brainlab - Introduction to UCLA (Haiying Liu BWH)
12. Demo Brainlab-BioImage Suite-Slicer in BWH OR (Haiying Liu BWH)
13. Segmentation of thalamic nuclei from DTI (Ion-Florin Talos BWH)
14. Slicer module for the computation of fibre dispersion and curving measures (Peter Savadjiev BWH)
15. Fluid mechanics tractography and visualization (Nathan Hageman UCLA)
16. DWI/DTI QC and Preparation Tool: DTIPrep (Zhexing Liu UNC)
17. DTI digital phantom generator to create validation data sets - webservice/cmdlin module/binaries are downloadable from UCLA (Nathan Hageman UCLA)
18. EPI Correction in Slicer3 (Ran Tao Utah)
19. White Matter Lesion segmentation (Minjeong Kim UNC)
20. FastMarching for brain tumor segmentation (Andrey Fedorov BWH)
21. EM Segment (Sylvain Jaume BWH)
22. Meningioma growth simulation (Andrey Fedorov BWH)
23. Automatic brain MRI processing pipeline (Marcel Prastawa Utah)
24. HAMMER Registration (Guorong Wu UNC)
25. Spherical Mesh Diffeomorphic Demons Registration (Luis Ibanez Kitware)
26. BSpline Registration in Slicer3 (Samuel Gerber Utah)
27. 4D Imaging (Perfusion, Cardiac, etc.) (Junichi Tokuda BWH)
28. MRSI Module (Bjoern Menze MIT)
29. Gated 4D ultrasound reconstruction for Slicer3 (Danielle Pace Robarts Institute)
30. Integration of stereo video into Slicer3 (Mehdi Esteghamatian Robarts Institute)
31. multi-modality statistical toolbox for MR T1, T2, fMRI, DTI data (Diego Cantor Robarts Institute)
32. Using ITK in python (Steve Pieper BWH)
33. Taking advantage of multicore machines & clusters with python (Julien de Siebenthal BWH)
34. Deferring heavy computational tasks with Slicer python (Julien de Siebenthal BWH)
35. Accelerating python with cython: application to stochastic tractography (Julien de Siebenthal BWH)
36. VTK 3d Widgets in Slicer3 (Nicole Aucoin BWH)
37. Updates to Slicer3 Colors module (Nicole Aucoin BWH)
38. Plug-in 3D Viewer based on XIP (Lining Yang Siemens Research)
39. Slicer3 Informatics Workflow Design & XNAT updates for Slicer (Wendy Plesniak BWH)
40. Registration reproducibility in Slicer3 (Andrey Fedorov BWH)
41. The Vascular Modeling Toolkit in 3D Slicer (Daniel Haehn BWH)
42. Extension of the Command Line XML Syntax/Interface (Bennett Landman)
43. XNAT user interface improvements for NA-MIC (Dan Marcus WUSTL)
44. XNAT File System with FUSE (Dan Marcus WUSTL)
45. XNAT integration into Harvard Catalyst i2b2 framework (Yong Harvard)
46. Slicer 3 registration (Andrew Rausch)

CUDA Projects

This is a list of candidate cuda projects that will be discussed with Joe Stam shortly:

1. 2d/3d Registration (and GPGPU acceleration) for Radiation Therapy (Tina Kapur BWH)
2. multi-modality statistical toolbox for MR T1, T2, fMRI, DTI data (Diego Cantor Robarts Institute)
3. accelerate calculation for LDR seeds (Jack Blevins Acousticmed)
4. 2009_Summer_Project_Week_Cone_Beam_backprojection(Zhou Shen U Michigan)
5. 2009_Summer_project_week_3d_Deformable_alignment(Dan McShan U Michigan)
6. Developing interactive stochastic tractography using CUDA (Julien de Siebenthal BWH)
7. acceleration of parallel real time processing of strain and elasticity images for monitoring of ablative therapy (Clif Burdette Acousticmed)

Preparation

1. Please make sure that you are on the http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/na-mic-project-week mailing list
2. Join the kickoff TCON on April 16, 3pm ET.
3. June 18 TCON at 3pm ET to tie loose ends. Anyone with un-addressed questions should call.
4. By 3pm ET on June 11, 2009: Complete a templated wiki page for your project. Please do not edit the template page itself, but create a new page for your project and cut-and-paste the text from this template page. If you have questions, please send an email to tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu.
5. By 3pm on June 18, 2009: Create a directory for each project on the NAMIC Sandbox (Zack)
   1. Commit on each sandbox directory the code examples/snippets that represent our first guesses of appropriate methods. (Luis and Steve will help with this, as needed)
   2. Gather test images in any of the Data sharing resources we have (e.g. the BIRN). These ones don't have to be many. At least three different cases, so we can get an idea of the modality-specific characteristics of these images. Put the IDs of these data sets on the wiki page. (the participants must do this.)
   3. Setup nightly tests on a separate Dashboard, where we will run the methods that we are experimenting with. The test should post result images and computation time. (Zack)
6. Please note that by the time we get to the project event, we should be trying to close off a project milestone rather than starting to work on one...
7. People doing Slicer related projects should come to project week with slicer built on your laptop.
   1. Projects to develop extension modules should work with the Slicer-3-4 branch (new code should not be checked into the branch).
   2. Projects to modify core behavior of slicer should be done on the trunk.

Attendee List

If you plan to attend, please add your name here.

1. Ron Kikinis, BWH (NA-MIC, NAC, NCIGT)
2. Clare Tempany, BWH (NCIGT)
3. Tina Kapur, BWH (NA-MIC, NCIGT)
4. Steve Pieper, Isomics Inc
5. Jim Miller, GE Research
6. Xiaodong Tao, GE Research
7. Randy Gollub, MGH
8. Nicole Aucoin, BWH (NA-MIC) (Attending Tuesday-Friday)
9. Dan Marcus, WUSTL
10. Junichi Tokuda, BWH (NCIGT)
11. Alex Gouaillard, Harvard Systems Biology
12. Arnaud Gelas, Harvard Systems Biology
13. Kishore Mosanliganti, Harvard Systems Biology
14. Lydie Souhait, Harvard Systems Biology
15. Luis Ibanez, Kitware Inc (Attending: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday)
16. Vincent Magnotta, UIowa
17. Hans Johnson, UIowa
18. Xenios Papademetris, Yale
19. Gregory S. Fischer, WPI (Mon, Tue, Wed)
20. Daniel Blezek, Mayo (Tue-Fri)
21. Danielle Pace, Robarts Research Institute / UWO
22. Clement Vachet, UNC-Chapel Hill
23. Dave Welch, UIowa
24. Demian Wassermann, Odyssée lab, INRIA, France
25. Manasi Ramachandran, UIowa
26. Greg Sharp, MGH
27. Rui Li, MGH
28. Mehdi Esteghamatian, Robarts Research Institute / UWO
29. Misha Milchenko, WUSTL
30. Kevin Archie, WUSTL
31. Tim Olsen, WUSTL
32. Wendy Plesniak BWH (NAC)
33. Haiying Liu BWH (NCIGT)
34. Curtis Lisle, KnowledgeVis / Isomics
35. Diego Cantor, Robarts Research Institute / UWO
36. Daniel Haehn, BWH
37. Nicolas Rannou, BWH
38. Sylvain Jaume, MIT
39. Alex Yarmarkovich, Isomics
40. Marco Ruiz, UCSD
41. Andriy Fedorov, BWH (NA-MIC)
42. Harish Doddi, Stanford University
43. Saikat Pal, Stanford University
44. Scott Hoge, BWH (NCIGT)
45. Vandana Mohan, Georgia Tech
46. Ivan Kolosev, Georgia Tech
47. Behnood Gholami, Georgia Tech
48. James Balter, U Michigan
49. Dan McShan, U Michigan
50. Zhou Shen, U Michigan
51. Maria Francesca Spadea, Italy
52. Lining Yang, Siemens Corporate Research
53. Beatriz Paniagua, UNC-Chapel Hill
54. Bennett Landman, Johns Hopkins University
55. Snehashis Roy, Johns Hopkins University
56. Marta Peroni, Politecnico di Milano
57. Sebastien Barre, Kitware, Inc.
58. Samuel Gerber, SCI University of Utah
59. Ran Tao, SCI University of Utah
60. Marcel Prastawa, SCI University of Utah
61. Katie Hayes, BWH (NA-MIC)
62. Sonia Pujol, BWH (NA-MIC)
63. Andras Lasso, Queen's University
64. Yong Gao, MGH
65. Minjeong Kim, UNC-Chapel Hill
66. Guorong Wu, UNC-Chapel Hill
67. Jeffrey Yager, UIowa
68. Yanling Liu, SAIC/NCI-Frederick
69. Ziv Yaniv, Georgetown
70. Bjoern Menze, MIT
71. Vidya Rajagopalan, Virginia Tech
72. Sandy Wells, BWH (NAC, NCIGT)
73. Lilla Zollei, MGH (NAC)
74. Lauren O'Donnell, BWH
75. Florin Talos, BWH (NAC)
76. Nobuhiko Hata, BWH (NCIGT)
77. Alark Joshi, Yale
78. Yogesh Rathi, BWH
79. Jimi Malcolm, BWH
80. Dustin Scheinost, Yale
81. Dominique Belhachemi, Yale
82. Sam Song, JHU
83. Nathan Cho, JHU
84. Julien de Siebenthal, BWH
85. Peter Savadjiev, BWH
86. Carl-Fredrik Westin, BWH
87. John Melonakos, AccelerEyes (Wed & Thu morning)
88. Yi Gao, Georgia Tech
89. Sylvain Bouix, BWH
90. Zhexing Liu, UNC-CH
91. Eric Melonakos, BWH
92. Lei Qin, BWH
93. Giovanna Danagoulian, BWH
94. Andrew Rausch, BWH (1st day only)
95. Haytham Elhawary, BWH
96. Jayender Jagadeesan, BWH
97. Marek Kubicki, BWH
98. Doug Terry, BWH
99. Nathan Hageman, LONI (UCLA)
100. Dana Peters, Beth Israel Deaconess
101. Sun Woo Lee, BWH
102. Melanie Grebe, Siemens Corporate Research
103. Megumi Nakao, BWH/NAIST
104. Moti Freiman, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
105. Jack Blevins, Acoustic Med Systems
106. Michael Halle, BWH
107. Amanda Peters, Harvard SEAS
108. Joe Stam, NVIDIA (Wednesday, Thursday)
109. Petter Risholm, BWH (NCIGT)
110. Kimberly Powell, NVIDIA (Wednesday)
111. Padma Akella, BWH (NCIGT)
112. Clif Burdette, Acousticmed (Mon, Tue, Wed)

Logistics

• Dates: June 22-26, 2009
• Location: MIT. Grier Rooms A & B: 34-401A & 34-401B.
• Registration Fee: $260 (covers the cost of breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks for the week). Due by Friday, June 12th, 2009. Please make checks out to "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" and mail to: Donna Kaufman, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave., 38-409a, Cambridge, MA 02139. Receipts will be provided by email as checks are received. Please send questions to dkauf at mit.edu. If this is your first event and you are attending for only one day, the registration fee is waived. Please let us know, so that we can cover the costs with one of our grants.
• Registration Method Add your name to the Attendee List section of this page
• Hotel: We have a group rate of $189/night (plus tax) at the Le Meridien (which used to be the Hotel at MIT). Please click here to reserve. This rate is good only through June 1.
• Here is some information about several other Boston area hotels that are convenient to NA-MIC events: Boston_Hotels. Summer is tourist season in Boston, so please book your rooms early.
• 2009 Summer Project Week Template
• Last Year's Projects as a reference
• For hosting projects, we are planning to make use of the NITRC resources. See Information about NITRC Collaboration