NA-MIC/Projects/External Collaboration/W&M CRTC
Key Investigators
- Nikos Chrisochoides, CRTC (Project lead)
- Andrey Fedorov, CRTC
- Luis Ibanez, Kitware
- Jim Miller, Kitware
- Dan Marcus
- Tina Kapur
Objective
The mission of the Center for Real-Time Computing is to promote innovation in time critical applications like medical image analysis for Image Guided Therapy. The application of our focus is non-rigid image registration (NRR) for image-guided neurosurgery. The objective is to improve the performance, accuracy and usability of the existing method. There are two sub-projects we plan to explore.
1. Distributed parametric search for optimum parameter setting during NRR. This project includes three components: 1) development/evaluation of tools and methods for automated registration validation; 2) collection of ground truth data sets; 3) development of the high performance computing infrastructure.
2. Tetrahedral mesh generation for intra-cranial cavity discretization used in physics-based NRR.
Approach, Plan
1. Distributed parametric search:
- discuss available tools and methods for automated validation
- 75+ tumor resection dataset -- would like to be able to use it
- evaluate the infrastructure options: GWE/GSlicer3? web portal? TeraGrid?
- collect feedback from potential users
2. Tetrahedral mesh generation:
- meshing TCON Thu 3:00-3:30pm
- status of unstructured mesh visualization in Slicer3
- meshing as a plugin in Slicer3
Progress
Funding
This work is supported in part by NSF grant CSI-719929 and by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.