Special topic breakout: Atlases

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Atlases Breakout Session

June 26th, 3-4pm

Location: Grier Rooms A & B: 34-401A & 34-401B

Attendees:

• Gary Christensen
• Wendy Plesniak
• Brad Davis
• Florin Talos
• Michael Halle

Agenda: Discuss among the group what topics below of are interest to discuss, and prioritize.

• Define Slicer software infrastructure and conventions for atlases
  • Accommodating volumetric and surface based atlases
  • Providing unique identifiers per structure within any atlas
  • Providing mapping from fiducials/landmarks to unique identifiers
  • Providing a mapping from structure to unique identifier to appearance attributes such as color
  • Providing ability to visually represent related groups of structures (e.g. structures that comprise a single structural or functional system, superstructure, or designated region)
  • Incorporating existing systems of nomenclature and ontologies: (NeuroNames, FMA, BirnLex...)
  • Schemes for mapping local identifiers to names/IDs in official ontologies, (and common synonyms?)
  • Developing and representing both structural and functional relationships
  • How to perform cross-atlas indexing, combine atlas information?
  • Can/Should there eventually be a 'how-to create a slicer atlas' document?
• Slicer-based tools that work the same for all atlases
  • mapping atlases to individuals (for overlaying experimental data or individual image data)
  • interactive tools for displaying labels in various nomenclatures on mouseover
  • interactive tools to do both point-based and region-based indexing (useful for brain?)
  • interactive tools to display and navigate hierarchical relationships between structures, superstructures and substructures
  • compatibility with web-based tools for making queries in anatomical context
  • other useful interactive tools?

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