2016 Summer Project Week/SliceTracker

Key Investigators

• Christian Herz (BWH)
• Peter Behringer (Basler AG)
• Andriy Fedorov (BWH)

Project Description

Slicetracker is a Slicer extension which focuses on tracking the prostate during prostate biopsies. In order to set the needle at the right position, SliceTracker includes a so called Z-Frame registration and calculates the optimal hole of a grid with 15x14 holes to be used for guiding the needle.

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Use SliceTracker currently used in shadow mode + collecting feedback from Kemal about usability At least 5 cases in a row which has to run without having any issues, then production use Integration of Z-Frame registration Calculation of template hole and depth to apply for reaching targets	Discussions and feedback about usability and improvements

Background and References

SliceTracker code: https://github.com/SlicerProstate/SliceTracker