Events:Slicer Workshop August 2009
Contents
Course Title
Introduction to Opensource Software Slicer and its Application to Image-Guided Therapy
Course Syllabus
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide the members of the research community with a practical experience of the image processing, 3D visualization, and Image-Guided Therapy capabilities of the Open Source 3D Slicer software platform. The curriculum is hands-on which means that participants are required to attend the workshop with a suitable laptop, preloaded with the software and sample data as specified below. Attendance is limited in order to ensure quality interactions between the faculty and participants.
Course Faculty
- Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA
- Lauren O'Donnell, Ph.D., Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA
- Kathryn Hayes, M.S.E.
Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA
- Haiying Liu, M.Eng., M.Sc.
Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA
Logistics
- Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
- Time: 9am - 4pm
- Location: 1249 Boylston Street, Boston MA (Directions)
- Participants are required to come with their own computer (PC, Linux or MacOS).
- Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and space is limited to 15 participants.
To register to this event, please send an e-mail to slicer-training at bwh.harvard.edu with your name, affiliation, contact information and the characteristics of the laptop you'll be bringing to the workshop.
Agenda
Morning: Introduction to Slicer
- 9:00 am - 9:10 am Preliminary session: Software and data installation trouble shooting
- 9:10 am - 9:30 am Slicer3 Overview and Applications (Sonia Pujol)
- 9:30 am - 10:30 am Hands-on Session 1: Data Loading and 3D Visualization (Sonia Pujol)
- 10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee-break
- 10:45 am - 11:30 am Hands-on Session 2: Data Saving (Sonia Pujol)
- 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Discussion and Conclusion
- 12:00 -1pm Lunch Break
Afternoon: Introduction to Slicer IGT
- 1:00 - 1:30 pm Introduction: Why Slicer 3 for your IGT research? An overview of Slicer3 for IGT. (15 min. O'Donnell)
- 1:30 - 4:00 pm Neurosurgical Planning and Guidance by Slicer"
- Module 1-3 (1:30-2:45 pm) (K. Hayes)
- Loading and visualizing anatomical MRI data
- Incorporating fMRI data using image registration and thresholding
- Creating a 3D model of the tumour volume
- 2:45 - 3:00 pm Coffee-break
- Module 4-6 (3:00-4:00 pm) (H. Liu)
- Predicting the locations of brain structures using image registration and a brain atlas
- Incorporating brain fiber tractography from diffusion weighted images
- Annotating the preoperative plan and saving the scene
Preparation for the Workshop
Please complete the following items prior to the course. Support will be provided as requested
- Software Installation: Please install the newest Slicer3.4 release appropriate to the computer you will be bringing to the workshop:
- Windows: Slicer3-3.4-2009-05-21-win32.exe
- Mac OSX Darwin PPC: Slicer3-3.4.2009-05-21-darwin-ppc.tar.gz
- Mac OSX Darwin Intel: Slicer3-3.4.2009-05-21-darwin-x86.tar.gz
- Linux x86: Slicer3-3.4.2009-05-21-linux-x86.tar.gz
- Linux x86-64: Slicer3-3.4.2009-05-21-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
The instructions for installing the Slicer3 program describe the different steps of the procedure on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.
Recommended configuration: Windows XP, Linux (x86 or x86_64), Mac OS (ppc or Intel), 2 GB of RAM and a dedicated graphic accelerator with 128 MB of on board graphic memory.
- Data to download: Please install the Slicer3VisualizationDataset.
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