Events:Radiation Therapy Tools Brainstorming

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Agenda

1. PLUNC: An open source complete radiation treatment planning system
   1. State of the art, GPU-based dose calculation
   2. Fast IMRT engine
   3. Image registration of unlimited number of images
   4. Manual segmentations in axial, coronal, and sagittal slices
   5. User interface via dials and other continuous controls
   6. Available on many operating systems and computers
   7. Used by ~100 institutions for research
   8. iHERO-compatible
   9. 3D visualization (see item 2)
2. 3D visualization in radiation treatment planning
   1. Integrated within PLUNC
   2. User interface: fully interactive pose and slice control, display entity control
      1. Single-GPU-based
   3. Methods:
   4. MGRview:
      1. Combinations of volume rendering, surface rendering, dose painting, beam outlines and views, …
      2. Object-coordinate based visualization operations for 3D visualization of multiple entities (objects, beams, dose, etc.) supported by texturing (2D and 3D)
      3. Illustration of object shape and position variations across days
3. Image analysis
   1. Skeletal model fitting to anatomic objects
   2. Skeletal model analysis into eigenmodes of variation and principal variances
   3. Segmentation via skeletal models and statistical models of image appearance (Pablo)
   4. Atlas to patient diffeomorphism calculation from corresponding reference object boundary points with correspondence maintenance
   5. Fluid-flow and control-theoretic greyscale diffeomorphism calculation
   6. IGRT from 2D projections to 3D CTs
      1. Registration
      2. CT reconstructions at treatment time therefrom
4. Utilities: Anti-aliased manual segmentations
5. Applications: Endoscopy/CT fusion in head and neck: registration and visualization (early stages)

Participants

This is a tentative list of participants. No one has been contacted yet.

1. Julian Rosenman, UNC
2. Steve Pizer, UNC
3. Sha Chang, UNC
4. Dave Lalush, UNC
5. Ron Alterovitz, UNC
6. Derek Merck, UNC
7. Ilknur Kaynar-Kabul, UNC
8. Hina Shah, UNC
9. Chen-Rui Chou, UNC
10. Lei Pan, UNC
11. Brandon Frederick, UNC
12. Clare Tempany, BWH
13. Fiona Fennessy, BWH
14. Robert Cormack, BWH
15. Greg Sharp, MGH
16. Andrey Federov, BWH
17. Ron Kikinis, BWH
18. Hans Peter Pfister, Harvard
19. George Chen, MGH
20. Tina Kapur, BWH
21. James Balter, Michigan
22. Gabor Fichtinger, Queens
23. Terry Yoo, NLM
24. Dave Chen, NLM