2014 Project Week:TCIA Browser Extension in Slicer

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Key Investigators

• BWH: Alireza Mehrtash, Andrey Fedorov, Ron Kikinis
• Isomics: Steve Pieper

Project Description

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) hosts a large collection of Cancer medical imaging data which is available to public [1]. The goal of this project is to develop a Slicer module in order to retrieve the medical images hosted at TCIA and visualize them in 3D Slicer.

Objective

• Study the latest changes in TCIA API and update the current module prototype.

Approach, Plan

• Discuss about the module functionality and UI design.
• Review the desired interactions of module with Slicer DICOM database.
• Review the different methods for displaying and organizing query results.

Progress

References

• TCIA Home Page : http://cancerimagingarchive.net/
• Slicer TCIA interface project at QIICR wiki: https://github.com/QIICR/ProjectIssuesAndWiki/wiki/Slicer-tcia-interface