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Action Items (details below)

1. Review the updated consultation page on the wiki. (everybody)
2. Submit additional information about the medical imaging software analysis tools at your site. (everybody)
3. Connect with CTSC sites not represented in the Imaging Consortium and learn about the Imaging resources available at those sites.
4. Create a PowerPoint presentation for Division Heads meetings so the Imaging Consortium can connect with the broader Imaging Community
5. Refine the list of expertise on the CTSC wiki (everybody)
6. Review the draft of the Imaging Information and Analysis Liaison/Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant job description. (everybody)
7. Organize a list of functions needed from the new XNAT system under development (everybody)

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes September 9, 2008

In Attendance (via phone):

• Gordon Williams
• Laura Alice
• Randy Gollub
• Carolyn Zyloney
• Annick D van den Abbeele
• Stephan Voss

1. Consultation Service
Final edits to the consultation service page are in the process of being made so the web-page will go live on the CTSC Catalyst website as soon as possible, most likely in October or November.

• Randy Gollub is looking for an appropriate picture for the top of the consultation page and will post this soon.
• Minor changes to number 3 ("What kind of consultation is not available?") on the consultation page draft were made. This change emphasizes that the consulting service is not responsible for performing image data analysis.
• The Imaging Consortium agreed that an email address should be created specifically for the consultation service. This idea has been proposed to CTSC Central.
• Designating a triage person for the consulting service will be discussed at a future meeting.

2. Informatics/XNAT update

• Randy Gollub contacted Shawn Murphy, the CTSC Central Informatics/i2b2 expert. A joint meeting between the Imaging Consortium and CTSC Informatics is being planned. This meeting will provide the Imaging Consortium with the opportunity to discuss the XNAT proposal, including the creation of a central data repository and gateway issues regarding data transfer between institutions. Part of the goal of this meeting will be to organize a subgroup of the Imaging Consortium to work on the XNAT proposal with CTSC Central.
• The Consortium agreed that we should prioritize our immediate and long-term goals for the
• Childrens
• Bill Hanlon has created a document summarizing the current status of the TIMC project. Consortium members are asked to look over this document for the next meeting.

• Bill Hanlon has created a document summarizing the current status of the TIMC project.
• Ron Kikinis and Shawn Murphy met with Dan Sullivan to discuss the infrastructure behind sharing medical imaging data.
• Randy met with Ellen Grant, an expert in pediatric neuroimaging, and Rudolph Pienaar, the medical imaging and informatics expert, to discuss their progress with XNAT. They reported having the following goals for their XNAT system:
  • Importing a large amount of legacy data to XNAT automatically
  • Setting up arbitrary SQL support to facilitate their interaction with data and allow for complex data queries.

Consortium members are requested to make a list of the functions they need and would like XNAT to perform, so these needs can be discussed with Shawn Murphy.

• Shawn Murphy will be invited to a future meeting of the Imaging Consortium to give an update on i2b2 and to work further on developing the Imaging Consortium's proposal.

3. Communication with Imaging Community
The Imaging Consortium agreed that consortium members will be responsible for reaching out to the broader imaging community at each institution within the consortium to inform the community of the consultation service, identify people with imaging expertise, and recruit possible collaborators for the consultation service. Randy Gollub will speak at the MGH ECOR (Executive Council on Research) meeting. Consortium members at each institution are asked to present at the Radiology Division Heads Meetings. Gordon Williams is preparing a PowerPoint presentation draft that will present an overview of the CTSC. Consortium members are encouraged to edit this presentation. A final draft will be prepared based on these edits so that all members of the Imaging Consortium will use a standard presentation