2012 Summer Project Week Breakout Session:Ultrasound

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Objective

We discuss how to use 3D Slicer in ultrasound (US)-guided interventions. Our goal is to identify common functions in these applications and create a platform from them in 3D Slicer.

Agenda (tentative)

• Temporal and spatial calibration of tracked US probes using PLUS (Csaba)
• Registration and real time display of US in Slicer for procedure guidance (Tamas)
• Perk Tutor: A configurable, Slicer-based training platform for ultrasound-guided needle insertions (Tamas)
• Low cost hardware. Capture and replay of experimental or clinical sessions (Kirby)
• Slicer CaseHub - Plans for capturing, organizing, and accessing multi-track procedure data (Steve)

Topic suggestions

• Improving Ultrasound imaging. This involves acquiring RF level or other data from the mid-processor stage of the imager (see http://www.ti.com/lit/wp/sprab12/sprab12.pdf, Figure 2) with the intent to provide a more suitable image for a particular application.
• Ultrasound post-processing, in which the image is processed to better enable, for example, registration to a CT data set.
  • Denoising with Ultrasound specific statistical filters
• Calibration, registration and display of ultrasound in 3D Slicer
• Real time (lag free) display of high quality US in Slicer for procedure guidance and lag free registered display in 3D models.
• The combination of 3 and 4 on low cost commodity hardware.
• The capture of all data to enable post procedure replay of a experimental or clinical session, so that the various processing steps can be debugged and optimized.