Liver RFA project mtg 7 30 2008

Georgetown University, ISIS Center, July 30 ~ August 1st, 2008

Attendee: Noby Hata, Haiying Liu, Yaniv Ziv, Patrick Cheng

Day 1

• Update project status.
  1. Demonstrating Slicer 3.0's segmentation and navigation capability
  2. Showing the existing IGSTK RFA system
• Experiment in DynaCT room (C-arm CT flouro room) to show the work flow of Georgetown's system
• Disccusion the integration effort
  1. In the near term, working on the semi-automatic segmentation of tumor in liver using slicer modules
  2. Setting up DICOM receiver on the Slicer workstation so it can receive data from DynaCT scanner [Finished by Haiying using DCMTK and tested]
  3. Ziv will work on a Tracker server application during this meeting (A standard alone application that can talk to different tracking device and send out transform using OpenIGTLink)
  4. In the long term, implement registration and navigation interface in Slicer

Day 2

• Discussion of project road map
  1. Goals in two years and obstacles
  2. Major components in place. Slicer 3.0 need improvement in performance