2015 Winter Project Week:OpenAtlas

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  Projects List

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  Adjacency display for corpus callosum

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  Difference display for pons

Key Investigators

• Bill Lorensen (Noware)

Project Description

Objective

• Provide tools and techniques to support community-driven anatomy atlas editing and curating.

Approach, Plan

Adapt extreme testing techniques used for software development to manage changes to anatomy atlases.

• Define procedures and policies to support atlas development
• Maintain a github repository to hold
  • Image atlases
  • Software tools to create models and check atlases for consistency
  • Cube and STL models for anatomy structures
  • Statistics for anatomy structures
  • Displays of changes in strutures
  • Displays of structure adjacencies
• Create a CDash dashboard to track changes in the atlases

Progress

Before Project Week

• Pilot project atlas is the Neuro Image Analysis Center's Multi-modality MRI-based Atlas of the Brain
• Established a github repository
• Developed several tools and scripts to process the atlas
• Edited several structures with Slicer to exercise the tools
• Created a CDash dashboard

During Project Week

• Establish an external data mechanism to keep the large binary files out of the repository. This will use the CMake ExternalData techniques developed for VTK and ITK.
• Create a Superbuild option for VTK and ITK that will simplify configuring the required VTK and ITK toolkits.
• Get feedback from potential customers (Ron, Mike Halle, Marianna)