2013 Project Week:WebbasedAnatomicalTeachingFramework

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Key Investigators

Over the last several years, an infrastructure has been developed to integrate health records and PACS image archives to support research on large collections of data collected during delivery of healthcare (as contrasted with data collected as part of clinical trials). This resulted in the availability of mi2b2 the mi2b2 system. An application enabled by this technology is supported by an R01 to use clinical scans of children aged zero to six years old to build a teaching atlas.
One goal of the mi2b2 collaborative effort is to create a web-based teaching tool for fetal and neonatal anatomy as well as a browser for quantified information. The goal of this project is to create a prototype application for this purpose which can be easily extended to other testing scenarios.

We propose the following steps to create a high-level didactic content creation tool.

Enable switching between different testing scenarios (fetal brains, liver etc.)
Start with the existing Liver tutorial dataset from the NA-MIC training core which includes a limited number of Q&A
Load a visual scene linked to a question catalog from a defined file format (XML?)
The visualization and the questions are linked so answers can be provided in a fully interactive fashion (picking of a 3D mesh.. etc.)
Track user-specified answers and provide statistics after testing mode
Use 3D Slicer to generate content for training and testing
Prototype will be built on top of existing visualization infrastructure (XTK and web-based fetal atlas tool)