2014 Project Week:OpenIGTLink

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Junichi Tokuda (BWH)
• Steve Piper (Isomics)
• Andras Lasso (Queen's)

Project Description

Objective

• Incorporate new data converters, which have not been implemented in Slicer OpenIGTLink IF module.
• Brainstorming for grant proposal.

Approach, Plan

• Data converters in OpeniGTLink IF module:
  • String (currently in OpenIGTLink Remote)
  • Sensors (implemented in Robot Interface Module (currently in private repository))
  • Capability
• Brainstorming for grant proposal.
  • Infrastructure for real-time data streaming (for realtime imaging, fast tracking)
  • Definition of communication schemes in real-time imaging, research interface in navigation systems, and robotic devices

Progress

• Identified data types available outside the module
  • Sensor (corresponds to vtkMRMLIGTLSensorNode)
  • Status (corresponds to vtkMRMLIGTLStatusNode)
  • String (corresponds to vtkMRMLIGTLStringNode)
  • Trajectory (corresponds to vtkMRMLAnnotationTextNode)
• Submitted feature request in Slicer Bug Tracking
• The updated code is in GitHub
• To include it in the main repository, we need to make sure other modules that depend on OpenIGTLink can be compiled with the version.