DBP MGH Head and Neck Cancer 2014

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• Time: 1pm-2pm
• Goal: Get together with your partners from algorithm and engineering to make plans for the upcoming year.
• DBP PI: Greg Sharp
  • Review of year 4 goals
    • Hybrid interactive-automatic registration
      • Demonstrated at AAPM 2014
      • Current version uses quasi-static dynamics
      • Future versions can use continuous dynamics, penalties can changed during optimization, can wrap any registration algorithm
      • Collaboration with NAC effort
    • Atlas-based segmentation
      • Released Dec 2013 as standalone
      • Some speed improvements are needed
    • DICOM-RT improvements
      • Released Nov 2013 as part of SlicerRT
      • Still needs some bug fixes
    • DIR validation module
      • Scripted module in development
      • Vector field
  • Plans for remaining 6 months
    • Finish up DICOM-RT and DIR validation projects
    • Documentation, and tutorials
  • Plans beyond 6 months
    • Funded grant through Dec 2014
    • Submission of grant with MSKCC
    • Look at R01 or BRP funding
• Algorithms as extensions in Slicer: Golland
  • KSlice
    • Chan-Vese optimizer is not well suited for soft tissue
    • We should evaluate with "Fast grow cuts" algorithm
  • Patch-based segmentation algorithm development
    • Refinement of boundaries and use of Gaussian process
• Engineering workflows in collaboration with DBP: Pieper
  • New framework for registration
    • Manage and control landmarks
  • Integration editor functionality
  • Update to DICOM & DICOM-RT infrastructure
    • Improvements to CTK DICOM browser
  • Improvements to Slicer core
  • Extension infrastructure