2013 Summer Project Week:Airway Inspector Porting

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Key Investigators

• Rola Harmouche,Demian Wassermann, Raul San Jose (BWH)

Objective

We have developed a library of tools for the processing and the analysis of chest images. The main objective is to make the tools available to the public by incorporating them into SLicer as command line extension modules and through a nipype work flow.

Approach, Plan

The library contains a mix of tools for image processing, segmentation and airway generation and inspection using particles. These tools are described in the works by Ross et al. and Kindlmann et. al. Our plan for the project week is to port most of these tools.

Progress

The tools have been developed using C++ and ITK and have been validated and used in the works described previously.

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a

1. Slicer Module
   1. Extension -- commandline

References

• James C. Ross, R. San Jose Estepar, G. Kindlmann, Alejandro Diaz, C.-F. Westin, Edwin K. Silverman, George R. Washko, [Automatic Lung Lobe Segmentation Using Particles, Thin Plate Splines, and Maximum a Posteriori Estimation] Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2010 Volume 6363, Pages 163-171, 2010

• Gordon Kindlmann, Raúl San José Estépar, Stephen M. Smith, Carl-Fredrik Westin. Sampling and Visualizing Creases with Scale-Space Particles. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2009; 15(6):1415-1424.