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 various IGT Navigation Systems, using PLUS and the OpenIGTLink.v3 protocol as a backend.
• The systems considered so far are
  • CustusX (http://custusx.org/)
  • IBIS (http://ibisneuronav.org/).
  • Slicer
  • MITK (in spirit only)
• CustusX: 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 between systems doing the same job using a client side IGTL library: https://github.com/IGSIO/OpenIGTLinkIO, forked from 3DSlicer/OpenIGTLinkIF
• CustusX items:
  • 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

• CustusX now receives ultrasound over OpenIGTLink/IO from PLUS: Media:CustusX_with_openigtlink3.mov.
• IBIS now received tracking data over OpenIGTLink/IO from PLUS.
• The OpenIGTLinkIO library is integrated into CustusX, IBIS and Slicer as a common layer.
• See [1] for a diagram relating the various applications and libraries.
• Command protocol is implemented in IO, yet to be used for controlling PLUS remotely.