2017 Winter Project Week/Tracked Ultrasound Standardization

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  Projects List

==Key Investigators=='

• Andras Lasso (Queen's University, Canada)
• Simon Drouin (Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada)
• Junichi Tokuda (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Longquan Chen (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Adam Rankin (Robarts Research Institute, Canada)
• Janne Beate Bakeng (SINTEF, Norway)

Project Description

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Plus toolkit provides access to numerous hardware devices (imaging devices, tracking devices, navigations systems, sensors, etc.) and makes it available through OpenIGTLink protocol Create a common library, OpenIGTLinkIO that makes communication with Plus (and OpenIGTLink-compatible devices or software) very simple: Ensure software interoperability Share software maintenance workload Make it easy to share new features Add specific features for tracked ultrasound and surgical navigation	Finish implementation of remote control of PlusServerLauncher Implement the ultrasound control messages Merge IGSIO/OpenIGTLink into OpenIGTLink and close the IGSIO/OpenIGTLink repository Reintegrate IGSIO/OpenIGTLinkIO in OpenIGTLinkIF Develop a common high-level GUI to control OpenIGTLinkIO devices	OpenIGTLink cleaned up and v3 merged into master Slicer updated to use recent version? - Junichi/Longquan OpenIGTLinkIO updated to use the full capacities of OpenIGTLink v3 and code base was refactored to make library more consistent More extensive automated tests have been added to OpenIGTLinkIO Implemented automated Encoding/Decoding of command messages content Revised protocol to communicate with tracked US devices. Start implementing convenience interface for US tracking using revised protocol.

Background and References

• Winter 2016 project page
• Summer 2016 project page