User talk:Lchauvin

Projects

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• OsteoPlan
• SlicerOnAMIGO
• 4D Ultrasound
• NeuroNav

• Biopsy Module
• LineMotion Extension

Progress reports

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4D Ultrasound

• PLANNED: Meeting with Junichi on March, 4th
  • TOPIC: Send Image with OpenIGTLink and use timestamps
  • SUMMARY
    • Junichi explained me how image were send with OpenIGTLink
    • He shew me example ImagerClient
• DONE: Create and upload dataset
  • File:4DUltrasound-part1.tar.bz2
  • File:4DUltrasound-part2.tar.bz2
  • Backup on Google Docs

Biopsy Module

• BUG: When slider is smaller than line's length, both sliders are moved
  • FIXED: Add test to watch witch one reach limit, and update range
• DONE: Use new planes to reslice
  • ISSUE: Render and reslice are two different things, render is called when reslicing (don't call it again)
    • SOLUTION: Add a checkbox
      • Not rendering twice, but render is not call anymore if not reslicing (need to put mouse on 3D Render to update)
• DONE: Create 3 planes (instead of one): Perpendicular, In-Plane 0 and In-Plane 90
• DONE: Posibility to create and use different fiducial list to draw line
• DONE: Add toggle checkbox to turn on/off plane visibility
• DONE: Translate plane along the axis
• DONE: Create plane along the line
  • MODIFIED: Plane is now perpendicular to the line
• DONE: Use two sliders to extend line
  • Line could be extended and retracted, but the distance between fiducials define minimal distance of the line allowed
• DONE: Create line between two fiducials

OsteoPlan

• IN PROGRESS: Study OsteoPlan.tcl obtained from Hua Li (MGH)
  • METHOD USED
    • Clipping model (with vtkPolyBoolean, not existing anymore, but could probably be replaced by vtkImplicitBoolean and vtkClippingPolyData)
    • Use vtkCellPicker to pick a cell of first part of the model
    • Use vtkPolyDataConnectivityFilter with Seeding option (seed used is the cell picked with vtkCellPicker)
    • Create a model with the output of connectivity filter
    • Do the same for the second part of the model
• MEETING: Send an email to Hua Lee (MGH) to set up a meeting
  • DONE: Meeting on Friday, 4th. 3pm. 25 New Chardon Street, 4th Floor.
  • TOPICS: See a demonstration of OsteoPlan, get source code, ask questions about user interface
  • SUMMARY
    • Possibility to cut a model with a plan on version 2.1
    • Got the source code
    • Explain what we already have on Slicer 3.6
    • User documentation of OsteoPlan on 2.1 received
    • Get models used
• BUG: Issue with vtk when trying to reinitialize array PointMap
  • A message has been sent to vtk mailing list
    • Wait for an answer
• DONE: Fixed issue that didn't allow to show/hide model from polydata
  • FIX: Use this piece of code to create a MRMLModelNode from polydata:

 // Create new polydata 
 vtkPolyData* polyDataModel1 = vtkPolyData::New();
 //
 // Create New vtkMRMLNode
 this->part1 = vtkMRMLModelNode::New();
 //
 // Create New vtkMRMLModelDisplayNode
 vtkMRMLModelDisplayNode* dnode1 = vtkMRMLModelDisplayNode::New();
 //
 // Add them to the scene 
 this->part1->SetScene(this->GetMRMLScene());
 dnode1->SetScene(this->GetMRMLScene());
 //
 this->GetMRMLScene()->AddNode(dnode1);
 this->GetMRMLScene()->AddNode(part1);
 //
 // Use new polydata model to be "ready" to receive data
 part1->SetAndObservePolyData(polyDataModel1);
 part1->SetAndObserveDisplayNodeID(dnode1->GetID());
 //
 // Copy polydata to the new polydata model
 dnode1->SetPolyData(clipper->GetOutput());
 //
 // Clean
 polyDataModel1->Delete();

• DONE: Enable to resize cutter and keep same position
• DONE: Study the OsteoPlan.tcl from Slicer2
  • VTK class vtkPolyBoolean does not exist anymore
  • Need to compare this version of OsteoPlan.tcl to OsteoPlan.tcl obtained from Hua Li (MGH).
• DONE: Clipped part inside the box, and use vtkPolyDataConnectivityFilter to extract largest and second largest region
  • Could be good with SpecifiedRegion if the model was not empty (too many regions else)
    • Is there a way to fill a surface in slicer ?
  • Use Largest region
    • Need a new function on this classs to get "second largest region"
      • Largest region use a sorted array -> Need to find second largest region and return it
        • Second largest region seems not to be the "piece" I needed
• FAILED: Try to use boudingbox and perform one first positive clipping, and a second negative clipping on the output of the first one.
  • Not possible because of the output of the clipping. Return inside of the box as a model and outside (everything outside, which mean top and bottom part) as another
• DONE: Installed VTK 5.7, and tried vtkClipClosedSurface
  • Good function, but use infinite plane
• FAILED: Tried to use kind of boolean operation (vtkExtractPolyDataGeometry, with filters, etc...)
  • Took 15 minutes to perform clipping, with infinite plane, and with model bugs
  • Do not use this way
• DONE: Clipping with big boundingbox
  • Working, fast, but not really a cutter
  • A cap is missing on the clipped part

LineMotion Extension

• Extension Completed
• DONE: Use color for different lines
• DONE: Keep index of fiducial list and actor synchronized when deleting a fiducial list
• DONE: Display multiple lines
• DONE: Posibility to create and use different fiducial list to draw line
• DONE: Add toggle checkbox to turn on/off plane visibility
• DONE: Translate plane along the axis
• DONE: Create plane along the line
  • MODIFIED: Plane is now perpendicular to the line
• DONE: Use two sliders to extend line
  • Line could be extended and retracted, but the distance between fiducials define minimal distance of the line allowed
• DONE: Create line between two fiducials

Todo, Bug, Ideas, ...

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• 4D Ultrasound
  • TODO: Have a look at unu (from teem library) to convert nrrd files
  • TODO: Have a look at ITK NRRD Reader

• Biopsy Module
  • TODO: Snap a fiducial (entry point) to the model
    • Ask Nicole Aucoin and the Measurement module

• Transform Module
  • ISSUE: Report Transform Module Issue (vtkKWMatrix4x4 observing Matrix4x4 and not vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode, if using ApplyTransform, new node is created and pointer is broken, then Transform Module is not updating anymore)

• LineMotion Extension
  • BUG: Leaks when clicking several times on "Draw line" button
    • FIXED: Move all "New()" method in constructor instead of event of "draw line" button, and add some verification before using this objects
  • TODO: Find a better way to link Fiducial list and Actor list
    • Synchronize 2 vtkCollections seems not possible -> Need to keep index "synchronized" manually
      • Remove actor when fiducial list deleted to keep the index "synchronized"

• OsteoPlan Module
  • STEP1: Use cutter to clip model
    • Deadline: February, 27th
  • STEP2: Use widget to move clipped parts of the model
    • Deadline: February, 27th
  • STEP3: Overlap different parts (snap them ?)
    • Deadline: March, 13th
  • STEP4: Put marks on parts
    • Dealine: March, 20th
  • STEP5: Back to original model with marks on it (use original model ? Inverse transformation matrix ?)
    • Deadline: March, 27th
  • IDEA: Use vtkImplicitModeller with vtkBoxWidget2 and a clipping function (propably vtkClipPolyData)
    • FAILED: vtkImplicitModeller compute distance with geometry. Not what I'm looking for.
  • IDEA: Use a filled model
  • IDEA: Use vtkCellPicker to pick the cell in the region and vtkPolyDataConnectivityFilter (option seed region) to find the region selected
  • SUGGESTION: Use box to clip for now, try to improve with just a cutter later
  • ISSUE: VTK pointer of the PointMap array seems to be modified after TraverseAndMark function, creating a crash
    • Tried to comment TraverseAndMark in extractLargestRegion. Worked but dirty and ExtractLargestRegion didn't work anymore.
      • Anyway, secondLargestRegion return nothing.
        • STILL NOT FIXED