2009 Summer Project Week 4D Gated US In Slicer

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  Project Week Main Page

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  Scatter plot of the original FA data through the genu of the corpus callosum of a normal brain.

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  Regression of FA data; solid line represents the mean and dotted lines the standard deviation.

Key Investigators

• Robarts Research Institute / University of Western Ontario: Danielle Pace

Objective

We are developing methods for analyzing diffusion tensor data along fiber tracts. The goal is to be able to make statistical group comparisons with fiber tracts as a common reference frame for comparison.

Approach, Plan

Our approach for analyzing diffusion tensors is summarized in the IPMI 2007 reference below. The main challenge to this approach is <foo>.

Our plan for the project week is to first try out <bar>,...

Progress

Stay tuned!

References

• Pace DF, Wiles AD, Moore J, Wedlake C, Gobbi DG, Peters TM, Validation of four-dimensional ultrasound for targetting in minimally-invasive beating-heart surgery, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures and Modeling, 2009.
• Boisvert J, Gobbi DG, Vikal S, Rohling R, Fichtinger G, Abolmaesumi P, An open-source solution for interactive acquisition, processing and transfer of interventional ultrasound images, Workshop on Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions, MICCAI 2008.