Slicer-IGT/VTK-MIST

Aim 1

1. Collaboration on extended IGSTK
2. BrainLab
3. Hitachi MRI scanner
4. extension of Junichi and Renxien's ongoing effort (link)
5. (for Nagoya) porting 3D guidance code to IGSTK and use it with NU-neuro navigation
6. Timeline

Aims 2

1. People Involved : TBN Nagoya U, Yuichiro Hayashi, Nagoya U, Benjamin Grauer, Andrea
2. Porting volume rendering in MIST to VTK
3. Kick off at Salt Lake city
4. t-con starts 11am Nov. 5 JST
5. Work sharing---TBD
6. Ben / Yuichiro to integrate MIST to VTK
7. Ben to integrate the VTK to Slicer
8. Andy/Ben starts examining MIST
9. Yuichiro starts examining MIST and VTK
10. Slicer/VTK/MIST integration design
11. Timeline
    1. Yuichiro to separate volume rendering
    2. Yuichiro to write vtk wrapper (Dec-Jan), MIST will be as is.
    3. Salt-lake: Kick off, Slicer integration design, compilation strategy (Ben, Jan-March)
    4. Yuichiro to take over the project June 2008

Aims 3

1. CUDA and volume rendering
2. Collaboration scheme to be discussed
3. revisiting in March 2008

SubAims 4

1. Kensaku check NAC activity
2. Kensaku check Slicer strength in fMRI and DTI

Misc

1. Yuichiro to Boston from August 08?
2. Neuroendoscope project
3. Using Slicer/MIST as frame work
4. Involvement in Animal/Human study
5. Science: Image-endoscope regisration
6. Camera calibration in Slicer?