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== Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes July 29, 2008 ==
 
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'''1. RSNA sponsored CTSC connection'''<br>
 
'''1. RSNA sponsored CTSC connection'''<br>
Tuesday at RSNA  Elliot and Dan Rubin
 
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Annick is nominated to represent
 
Bill agreed to represent us on Neuroinformatics calls
 
 
+++Clare briefed us on the already active effort among previously funded CTSC's with Imaging Cores to work together to support within and across site biomedical imaging efforts.  She stressed the importance of staying closely connected with this effort as our site will be judged by NIH in comparison with this benchmark (e.g. we should be up to speed on all that they are offering).  Group agreed to share the responsibilities of attending these T-cons and the face-to-face meetings for this and other similar efforts known to be coming (ACRIN meeting is on the radar screen for early October for instance).  Clare is willing to be our initial liaison for obtaining information on site resources.  Ron Kikinis is already hooked in on the topic of neuroinformatics.  The meeting dates are now posted on our wiki so we can assign names to each responsibility as people volunteer.
 
 
'''2. Consultation Service'''<br/>
 
 
+++Group agreed this would take more discussion as this is the key focus of our work.  Liked the idea of focusing on existing expertise (MR, PET, CT) as it is reasonably well matched to current demand.  Will let investigator demand drive planning to extend our focus.  We will use our next face to face meeting at BIDMC on August 5th to tackle this.  Based on the auto-replies I got back from this morning's emails, Gordon Harris, Annick and Jeff should all be back in town and hopefully can join.  In preparation for this we agreed to gather our ideas by using "USE CASES" or examples of consults we are already receiving from Clinical Translational investigators.  Randy has started a page for this on the wiki we can all populate.  Clare will either send Randy her screening sheet they use at the BWH GCRC Imaging core to help organize this page or do it herself.
 
 
'''3. Education Program'''<br/>
 
Jim Ware, Mark Vangel, Randy Gollub meeting Tuesday
 
junior person at BWH
 
Elk Halpern
 
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Clare Constantine Gatsonis ACRIN biostatstican works at Brown lives in Boston, visits BWH
 
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+++Group vetted the plans we discussed previously. Randy to prepare them in a table format with time linesFinal decisions regarding content and speakers for mini-series to be determined after we complete compiling our existing resources.
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Annick is nominated to represent our Consortium at the ACRIN meeting in October. This needs to be confirmed upon her returnBill agreed to represent us on Neuroinformatics subgroup calls and Randy agreed to represent us for Education subgroup calls.
  
'''4. Image Data Management and Shared Imaging Data''' <br/>
 
The Morphometry BIRN and NAMIC submitted proposal for the CTSC Imaging Consortium and Informatics Core for a data management system was discussed by the group.  Bill Hanlon likes this organizational approach for being able to solve immediate problems.  He will edit in specific use cases to document and circulate.  Bruce Rosen sat in on last RSNA-CTSA Neuroinformatics call.  Thinks there is a need for someone with greater expertise than him to represent our Harvard efforts.  There is already a launched effort led by the caBIG, ACRIN, and some already funded CTSA sites such as Duke and Wash U. Gather
 
  
that would support both local clinical translational investigators doing their own imaging studies and sharing image data collections more broadly.  Randy will forward the draft document to the group in advance of next Tuesday's meeting for group discussion. 
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'''2. Education Program'''<br/>
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Jim Ware (head of CTSC Biostatistics), David Golan (head of CTSC Education), Mark Vangel, Randy Gollub meeting Tuesday August 5th to discuss the logistics and "big picture" of how our group will work with their programs.  Several ideas were presented for who else in our imaging community might be available to teach relevant material. Elk Halpern was mentioned as was Clare Constantine Gatsonis (ACRIN biostatstican who works at Brown but lives in Boston and occaisionally visits BWH).  Also wondered about an imaging track within the CTSC sponsored K-level training grants.
'''5. Curation of Site Resources'''<br/>
 
Sophisticated and appropriate approach.
 
  
+++Group reviewed MGH site resources as template for how to format all sites.  Approved the conceptRandy will polish the MGH site resources to be in harmony with other CTSC needs with the help of the Navigators on Friday July 25thThe navigators will then contact each site's representative to make a meeting to get all site's resources loaded in the same formatThis will be done for image acquisition, analysis visualization and data management resources as well as educational/training resources (new column added)Agreed to include animal imaging resources but clearly separated so that when the material is migrated to CONNECTS we initially copy only the human but have the animal stuff ready to go when they are requested (as they likely will be).
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'''3. Curation of Site Resources'''<br/>
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Feedback from the Navigators is that our proposed ideas for what data to compile was more sophisticated and detailed than is needed for the immediate roll out of the Catalyst websiteThey have come back to us with a simplified spreadsheet of fields of information that they believe is the appropriate approach for their initial cataloging effortAnn and Zeke will work with each of our site representatives to ensure that this data is capturedPlease give them your help when it is requestedWe agreed to continue in our efforts to collate our imaging resources using the wiki to help us guide our plans for the consult service and other offerings we may chose to deliver.
  
'''6. Collaborative response to Harvard-wide Technology White Paper''' <br/>
 
Bruce still trying to connect with Dr. Edelman.
 
  
 
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Action Items (details below)

  1. All site representatives please respond to Ann/Zeke as they compile the level of detail requested from CTSC Central for your imaging facilities.


Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes July 29, 2008

In Attendance (by T-con):

  • Bruce Rosen
  • Bill Hanlon
  • Randy Gollub
  • Clare Tempany
  • Ron Kikinis
  • Ann
  • Zeke


1. RSNA sponsored CTSC connection

Annick is nominated to represent our Consortium at the ACRIN meeting in October. This needs to be confirmed upon her return. Bill agreed to represent us on Neuroinformatics subgroup calls and Randy agreed to represent us for Education subgroup calls.


2. Education Program
Jim Ware (head of CTSC Biostatistics), David Golan (head of CTSC Education), Mark Vangel, Randy Gollub meeting Tuesday August 5th to discuss the logistics and "big picture" of how our group will work with their programs. Several ideas were presented for who else in our imaging community might be available to teach relevant material. Elk Halpern was mentioned as was Clare Constantine Gatsonis (ACRIN biostatstican who works at Brown but lives in Boston and occaisionally visits BWH). Also wondered about an imaging track within the CTSC sponsored K-level training grants.

3. Curation of Site Resources
Feedback from the Navigators is that our proposed ideas for what data to compile was more sophisticated and detailed than is needed for the immediate roll out of the Catalyst website. They have come back to us with a simplified spreadsheet of fields of information that they believe is the appropriate approach for their initial cataloging effort. Ann and Zeke will work with each of our site representatives to ensure that this data is captured. Please give them your help when it is requested. We agreed to continue in our efforts to collate our imaging resources using the wiki to help us guide our plans for the consult service and other offerings we may chose to deliver.