2013 Summer Project Week:Airway Inspector Porting

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  Projects List

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  Emphysema Analysis Tool

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  Airway Analysis Tool

Key Investigators

• BWH: Raul San Jose, Demian Wassermann, Rola Harmouche (BWH)

Background

Airway Inspector (www.airwayinspector.org) is a tool for CT-based image quantitative analysis of the lung to allow the exploration of airway morphology and desitometric characteristics [1]. Airway Inspector is based on Slicer2.

Objective

Port the capabilities of Airway Inspector to Slicer4.

Approach, Plan

This goal will be achieved by creating extension module with two components:

• Emphysema Analysis Sub-Module
  • Port Chest structure segmentation using VTK
  • Creation of loadable module

• Airway Analysis Sub-Module
  • Port airway measurement VTK classes
  • Creation of a loadable module

Progress

The main libraries for lung and airway wall segmentation tools have been developed using C++ and VTK and have been validated and used in multiple clinical works.

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a

1. Slicer Module
   1. Extension — loadable modules

References

• San Jose Estepar R, Washko GG, Silverman EK, Reilly JJ, Kikinis R, Westin CF. Airway inspector: An open source application for lung morphometry. In First International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Processing. New York City, USA, 2008;293-302. Available on-line: www.lulu.com/content/3507981.