2012 Project Week:4DImageSlicer4

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• BWH: Andrey Fedorov
• Isomics: Steve Pieper
• BWH: Junichi Tokuda
• MGH: Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
• GE: Emma Zhu
• GE: Jim Miller

Objective

To discuss the architecture and work on implementing support for 4d images in Slicer4.

Our primary use case is to provide support for IO and visualization of DCE MRI, with the application specifically to prostate imaging.

Approach, Plan

Progress

Initial experiments showed the feasibility of the proposed approach:

• DicomToNrrdConverer works for DCE data
• B-values field can be used to store timestamps

Questions:

• are VTK plotting capabilities as in RT module available from python
  • a ChartViewer (like a SliceView or 3D View that can be packed in a layout) is under development - Jim
• python vs c++ for the DCE GUI module
• DWI volume has B-values vector, but only the last B-value is saved in the NRRD volume by Slicer -- is this expected?
• what should be included in the DCE GUI module? plan: simplified version of the Volumes DWI panel, adjusted for DCE needs

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a core functionality of 3D Slicer v.4

Pre-meeting notes

References