Events:Computational Methods for Radiation Oncology

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Date and Location

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011

Location: Surgery Education Office, Room CA-034, Carrie Hall, 15 Francis Street. (Directions)

In addition, the following information is useful for first time visitors to the hospital:

• http://www.brighamandwomens.org/about_bwh/locations/directions/default.aspx
• On the "Pike map" PDF link (bottom of page), the Carrie Hall building is closest to the 15 Francis St entrance -- enter through the columns.
• On Google Street View/Map, the Carrie Hall building is near the label "Howard Hughes Medical Institute".

Agenda

To brainstorm computational methods for radiation oncology between UNC, NA-MIC, BWH.

• 8am: Breakfast
• 8:30-10:30am: UNC -presentations about capabilities of current projects, short term and longer term plans
  • Julian Rosenman PLUNC 18 minutes
  • Gregg Tracton Software for PLUNC, segmentation, registration 10 minutes
  • Stephen Pizer Registration by regression (2 methods), Segmentation via posterior optimization, training probability distributions on s reps and quantile functions, segmentation via correspondence-preserving warps, ant aliasing 23 minutes
  • Sha Chang Nanotube imaging, incl. for IGRT 10 minutes
  • Brandon Frederick Iterative tomographic reconstruction, CTs at treatment time, gpu’s 15 minutes
  • Derek Merck 3D visualization via model-guided rendering, 3D visualization in PLUNC for RTP 15 minutes
  • Ilknur Kabul Texturing of surfaces, onion skins, and cut planes; interpolation of textures 10 minutes
  • Hina Shah Registration of endoscopic cine and CT of throat,fused displays of these two registered sources 8 minutes
  • Ron Alterovitz Planning for brachytherapy with curved needles, FEM software 12 minutes
• 10:30 am: Break
• 10:50am-12:10pm: NA-MIC/Harvard presentations about capabilities of current projects, short term and longer term plans
  • Slicer3 to Slicer 4, Radiation Therapy support today, and plans for the next year (Steve Pieper) (15 minutes)
  • SPARKit, Canadian grant for providing open source software platform for radiotherapy, potentially based on NA-MIC Kit (Andras Lasso) (10minutes)
  • Head and Neck Cancer NA-MIC DBP (Greg Sharp) (15 minutes)
  • Gynecologic Cancer Brachytherapy Plans (Tina Kapur) (15 minutes)
  • Shadie, shading language for volume visualization(Hanspeter Pfister, Milos Hasan, George Chen, John Wolfgang) (20 minutes)
• 12:10pm pm: Lunch
• 1pm: Intro of afternoon objectives (Julian Rosenman)
• 1:10pm: What UNC/Boston system combinations ought to be developed -- the Boston perspective (Tina Kapur)
• 1:30pm: What Boston/UNC system combinations ought to be developed -- the UNC perspective (Steve Pizer)
• 2:00-2:30pm: Comments from Kitware about their capabilities relevant to proposed combinations (Brad Davis)
• 2:30pm: Break and subgroup formation (e.g., merging surgical and radiation treatment planning system; 3D visualization software for treatment planning; image analysis software for treatment planning)
• 3:00-4pm: Subgroups sketch out mechanics for collaborations
• 4:00-5:0pm: Summary: what we do next?

Confirmed Participants

1. Julian Rosenman
2. Gregg Tracton
3. Stephen Pizer
4. Sha Chang
5. Brandon Frederick
6. Derek Merck
7. Ilknur Kabul
8. Hina Shah
9. Ron Alterovitz
10. Ron Kikinis
11. Sandy Wells
12. Steve Pieper
13. Andras Lasso
14. Greg Sharp
15. Tina Kapur
16. Hanspeter Pfister
17. Milos Hasan
18. George Chen
19. John Wolfgang
20. Petter Risholm
21. Andrey Fedorov
22. James Balter