2014 Project Week:TCIA Browser Extension in Slicer

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Key Investigators

• BWH: Alireza Mehrtash, Andrey Fedorov, Ron Kikinis
• Isomics: Steve Pieper
• NCI Imaging Program: Justin Kirby, John Freymann

Project Description

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) hosts a large collection of Cancer medical imaging data which is available to public [1]. The goal of this project is to develop a Slicer module in order to retrieve the medical images hosted at TCIA and visualize them in 3D Slicer.

Objective

• Create a scripted Slicer module for browsing TCIA collections and loading images into Slicer scene.

Approach, Plan

• Study the latest changes in TCIA API [3] and update the current module prototype.
• Discuss about the module functionality and UI design.
• Review the desired interactions of module with Slicer DICOM database.
• Review the different methods for displaying and organizing query results.

Progress

• We developed a scripted module for Slicer which can be used to connect to TCIA archive, browse the data, download and load into Slicer scene.
• The module is finalized and is ready to be published as a Slicer extension.

References

• [1] Module Code at Github: https://github.com/mehrtash/TCIABrowser/tree/master/TCIABrowser
• [2] TCIA Home Page : http://cancerimagingarchive.net/
• [3] QIICR wiki: Slicer TCIA interface project : https://github.com/QIICR/ProjectIssuesAndWiki/wiki/Slicer-tcia-interface
• [4] TCIA Rest API Documentation: https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/TCIA+Programmatic+Interface+%28REST+API%29+Usage+Guide
• [5] Module UI Design: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HJcbNxhAGXP9Raw0JZFPzKXqgOgR8sv7eikYIsWPKNQ/edit?usp=sharing