2016 Summer Project Week/Integrating PLUS in applications using OpenIGTLink

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Christian Askeland
• Janne Beate Bakeng
• Ole Vegard Solberg
• Jon Eiesland
• Longquan Chen
• Simon Drouin

Project Description

Objective

• Provide support for Tracking and Ultrasound streaming in CustusX, using PLUS and the OpenIGTLink.v3 protocol as a backend.
• Phase out IGSTK (tracking) and in-house solutions (streaming).

Approach, Plan

• Base work on results from Tracked Ultrasound Standardization II: The Implementering, and the existing PLUS/OpenIGTLink support in CustusX.
  • Coordinate efforts with others systems doing the same job (Slicer, MITK, IBIS)
• Replace IGSTK-based tracking. Evaluate if PLUS has the required features.
  • Semi-automatic gui-based configuration on the CX side.
  • Modify PLUS if necessary.
  • Wrap PLUS in CustusX. End users should not need to tweak PLUS-specific xml.
• Replace in-house US-streaming solutions by the new standards.
  • Try to use PLUS as backend for the Ultrasonix scanner.
  • Write a lightweight OpenIGTLink server for proprietary scanners.
  • Framegrabber/OpenCV-based streaming based on PLUS (?).

Progress