2016 Winter Project Week

Dates: January 4-8, 2016

Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Agenda

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Project Presentations	Update Day		IGT Day	Reporting Day
8:30am		Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
9am-12pm		10-11:30am Breakout Session: DICOM (Steve Pieper) Star	11am-12noon Breakout Session: Slicer for users (Ron Kikinis)	9:00-10:30am Tutorial Contest Presentations (Sonia Pujol) Grier Rooms ---------------------------------------- 10am-12pm: Breakout Session: Image-Guided Therapy - Neurosurgery (Alexandra Golby, Tina Kapur) Star	10am-12pm: Project Progress Updates (Stata Building 4th Floor R&D Common Dining Area) ---------------------------------------- 12pm Tutorial Contest Winner Announcement (Stata Building 4th Floor R&D Common Dining Area)
12pm-1pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch boxes; Adjourn by 1:30pm
1pm-5:30pm	1-1:05pm: Ron Kikinis: Welcome Grier Rooms ---------------------------------------- 1:05-3:30pm: Project Introductions (all Project Leads) Grier Rooms ---------------------------------------- 3:30-4:30pm Slicer4 Extensions (Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin) Grier Room (Left)	1-3pm: Breakout Session: QIICR (Andrey Fedorov) Kiva	1-2:30pm: Breakout Session: Contours (Adam Rankin, Csaba Pinter) Kiva	1-3pm: Breakout Session: Image-Guided Therapy - Prostate Interventions (Clare Tempany, Noby Hata) Star ----------------------------------------
5:30pm	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day

Background

Project Week is a hands on activity -- programming using the open source NA-MIC Kit, algorithm design, and clinical application -- that has become one of the major events in the NA-MIC, NCIGT, and NAC calendars. It is held in the summer at MIT, typically the last week of June, and a shorter version is held in Salt Lake City in the winter, typically the second week of January.

Active preparation begins 6-8 weeks prior to the meeting, when a kick-off teleconference is hosted by the NA-MIC Engineering, Dissemination, and Leadership teams, the primary hosts of this event. Invitations to this call are sent to all NA-MIC members, past attendees of the event, as well as any parties who have expressed an interest in working with NA-MIC. 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 NA-MIC coverage for all. Subsequent teleconferences 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 are asked to fill in a template page on this wiki that describes the objectives and plan of their projects.

The event itself starts off with a short presentation by each project team, driven using their previously created description, and allows all participants to be acquainted with others who are doing similar work. In the rest of the week, about half the time is spent in breakout discussions on topics of common interest of subsets of the attendees, and the other half is spent in project teams, doing hands-on programming, algorithm design, or clinical application of NA-MIC kit tools. The hands-on activities are done in 10-20 small teams of size 3-5, each with a mix of experts in NA-MIC kit software, algorithms, and clinical. To facilitate this work, a large room is setup with several tables, with internet and power access, and each team gathers on a table with their individual laptops, connects to the internet to download their software and data, and is able to work on their projects. On the last day of the event, a closing presentation session is held in which each project team presents a summary of what they accomplished during the week.

A summary of all past NA-MIC Project Events is available here.

Please make sure that you are on the na-mic-project-week mailing list

Projects

• Template for project pages

Image-Guided Therapy

• SlicerIGT extension: testing, tutorials, website (Tamas Ungi, Nobuhiko Hata, Tina Kapur)
• Robot Control With OpenIGTLink ( Gregory Fischer WPI, Nirav Patel WPI, Nobuhiko Hata BWH)
• Visual Guidance for Neurosurgery US Data Recording (Alireza, Isaiah, Rahul, Matthew, Tina, Steve, Sandy, Alex Golby)
• Gestural Point of Care Interface for IGT (Saskia, Franklin, Steve, Tobias, Andras)
• Steered image registration using intelligent interfaces for minimal user interaction (Marcel Prastawa, Jim Miller, Steve Pieper)
• CBC 3D I2M Conversion (Fotis Drakopoulos, Yixun Liu, Andrey Fedorov, Ron Kikinis, Nikos Chrisochoides)
• An ITK implementation of Physics-Based Non-Rigid Registration method for Brain Shift (Fotis Drakopoulos, Yixun Liu, Andriy Kot, Andrey Fedorov, Olivier Clatz, Ron Kikinis, Nikos Chrisochoides)
• Open-source electromagnetic trackers using OpenIGTLink (Peter Traneus Anderson, Tina Kapur, Sonia Pujol)
• Intraoperative Registration of preoperative CT and C-arm CT of the lung (Katharina Breininger, Jay Jagadeesan)
• Making realistic clinical story board for image guided skull base endoscopic surgery (Keryn Palmer, Nobuhiko Hata)
• PathExplorer Extension (code refactoring, documentation, tutorial) (Laurent Chauvin, Tamas Ungi, Nobuhiko Hata)
• MR-Ultrasound Registration for Prostate Interventions (Andriy Fedorov, Chenxi Zhang, Andras Lasso)
• Surface approximation from contour points (Chenxi Zhang, Csaba Pinter, Andrey Fedorov)
• Tools for Dysplasia Identification in Epilepsy (Luiz Murta; Emylin Souza; Tina Kapur; Ron Kikinis)
• Focused Ultrasound Pressure Sensor (Robin Kouver, Nassim Alikacem)
• Focused Ultrasound Positioner (Nassim Alikacem, Robin Kouver)
• Searching for Software Platform for Robotic Surgery (Yangming Li)
• Rapid Visualization of Large Image Collections (Adrian, Ramesh, Polina)
• Ventriculostomy Guidance with Transcranial Ultrasound (Jason White, Kirby Vosburgh, Can Meral, Alex Golby)
• Calibration of EM-tracked US acquisition using Plus (Andrey Fedorov, Tamas Ungi, Andras Lasso, Jay Jagadeesan)

Huntington's Disease

• Fiber Tract Dispersion and UKF Tractography (Peter Savadjiev, Yogesh Rathi, Hans Johnson, C-F Westin)
• 4D Segmentation for Longitudinal Consistency (Regina Kim, James Fishbaugh, Guido Gerig, Hans Johnson)
• Automated Prior-driven Segmentation QA (Dave Welch, Hans Johnson)
• Manual Segmentation QA (Dave Welch, Hans Johnson)
• Update BRAINSTools (BRAINSFit and DWIConvert) in Slicer (Hans Johnson, Dave Welch, Kent Williams, JC, Brad)
• Cardiac Agatston Scoring Extension (Jessica Forbes, Hans Johnson)

TBI

• Interactive segmentation for traumatic brain injury (Bo Wang, Marcel Prastawa, Andrei Irimia, John D. Van Horn, Guido Gerig)

Stroke

• Stroke Imaging Genetics (Adrian Dalca, Ramesh Sridharan, Polina Golland)
• Stroke Super Resolution (Adrian Dalca, Ramesh Sridharan, Polina Golland)

Cardiac

• MRI segmentation for congenital heart disease (Danielle Pace, Adrian Dalca, Polina Golland)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Lung, Chest

• Pectoralis muscle segmentation (Rola Harmouche, James Ross, Raul San Jose)
• Image Registration with Sliding Motion Constraints (Alexander Derksen, Kanglin Chen, Gregory Sharp)
• Multiscale Non Local Means filter (NLM) for chest CT images (Pietro Nardelli, Raul San Jose)

Head and Neck Cancer / Radiotherapy

• ScalarBar vtk6 migration (Kevin Wang, Nicole)
• Upload H&N data (Greg Sharp, Paolo Zaffino)
• DIR stop and restart (Paolo Zaffino, Greg Sharp, Steve Pieper)
• Proton pencil beam dose calculation (Maxime Desplanques, Kevin Wang, Greg Sharp)

QIICR

• Real world value mapping support (Ethan, Andrey, Andras, Steve, Jim)
• Proper formatting of DICOM Derived Data from CLI (Steve, Andrey, Jim, {Michael and David remotely})
• DICOM SEG conversion to support archival of QIN Grand challenges results (Jayashree, Andrey, Steve, {David remotely})
• Color Bar Support for Slice Views (Alireza, Andrey, Steve, Kevin)
• Slicer DICOM Improvements (Alireza, Andrey, Steve, Ron)

Feature Extraction

• Breast Tumor Segmentation (Vivek Narayan, Jay Jagadeesan)
• Breast Tumor Heterogeneity Analysis (Vivek Narayan, Jay Jagadeesan)
• Quantitative image feature extraction in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (Hugo Aerts)
• Invariant Feature Methods in Slicer (Matthew Toews, Nicole Aucoin, Hans Johnson, Sandy Wells)

Additional Brain Image Analysis

• Shape Analysis for the developing murine skull (Murat Maga, Ryan Young, Seattle Chidren's Hospital).
• Slicer Interface to LDDMM shape anlaysis (Saurabh Jain, JHU; Steve Pieper, Isomics; Josh Cates, SCI, Utah; Hans Johnson, Iowa; Martin Styner, UNC)
• Atlas Selection (Kanglin Chen, Gregory Sharp)
• CAD Toolbox for Neurological Disorders (Sidong Liu, Siqi Liu, Fan Zhang, Yang Song, Weidong Cai, Sonia Pujol, Ron Kikinis)
• Longitudinal patient-specific DTI analysis using Slicer for neonatal asphyxia (Anuja Sharma, SCI, Utah; Francois Budin, UNC; Martin Styner, UNC; Guido Gerig, SCI, Utah)
• Pipeline Visualization (Ramesh, Adrian, Polina)

Slicer4 Extensions

• Multidimensional Data (Andras Lasso, Kevin Wang)
• DICOM-SRO import/export (Kevin Wang, Greg Sharp)
• Integrating DRAMMS deformable registration into Slicer (Yangming Ou, Steve Pieper, Andriy Fedorov, Tina Kapur, Christos Davatzikos, Ron Kikinis, Randy Gollub, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer)

TMJOA RO1 - Collaboration with NAMIC

• TMJOA (Francois Budin, Beatriz Paniagua, Lucia Cevidanes, Nicole Aucoin, Steve Pieper, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Alex Yarmarkovich)

Infrastructure

• Chronicle (Steve)
• Post NA-MIC Factory and Testing (Steve, Jc, Ron)
• Volume Registration (Steve, Greg, Marcel, Jim)
• Markups (Nicole Aucoin)
• Pluggable Label Statistics (Andrey , Ethan, Steve, Brad, Jim)
• Subject hierarchy integration (Csaba, Steve, Jc, Andras)
• Contours (Adam Rankin, Csaba, Andras, Steve, Jc)
• Parameter Node Serialization (Kevin Wang, Steve, Jim, Jc, Matt, Nicole)
• Self-tests for non-linear transforms (Xining Du)
• Slicer Tutorial Updates (Parth Amin, Farukh Kohistan, Sonia Pujol)

Logistics

• Dates: January 4-8, 2016
• Location: MIT
• REGISTRATION: https://www.regonline.com/namic2016winterprojectweek. Please note that as you proceed to the checkout portion of the registration process, RegOnline will offer you a chance to opt into a free trial of ACTIVEAdvantage -- click on "No thanks" in order to finish your Project Week registration.
• Registration Fee: $300.
• Hotel: Similar to previous years, no rooms have been blocked in a particular hotel.
• Room sharing: If interested, add your name to the list: here

Registrants

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