2016 Summer Project Week/Tracked Ultrasound Standardization

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Key Investigators

• Andras Lasso (Queen's University, Canada)
• Christian Askeland (SINTEF, Norway)
• Simon Drouin (Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada)
• Junichi Tokuda (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Longquan Chen (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Adam Rankin (Robarts Research Institute, Canada)
• Thomas Kirchner (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)

Background

• NAMIC Winter 2016 project page

Project Description

Objective

• Plus toolkit provides access to numerous hardware devices (imaging devices, tracking devices, navigations systems, sensors, etc.) and makes it available through OpenIGTLink protocol
• Create a common library that makes communication with Plus (and OpenIGTLink-compatible devices or software) very simple:
  • Ensure software interoperability
  • Share software maintenance workload
  • Make it easy to share new features
• Add specific features for tracked ultrasound and surgical navigation

Approach, Plan

• Formalize and complete OpenIGTLink v3 specification: mostly completed during NAMIC Winter Project Week 2016
• Implement OpenIGTLink v3 specification in OpenIGTLink: commands and custom attributes
• Implement OpenIGTLinkIO library for convenient connection setup, command handling, conversion to/from VTK data objects, legacy OpenIGTLink (v1 and v2) support
• Implement tests and examples

Progress

• OpenIGTLink v3 is implemented in OpenIGTLink and Plus toolkits
• OpenIGTLinkIO library basic features implemented, used in CustusX, IBIS, Plus (server launcher)
• Next steps: make OpenIGTLinkIO feature complete, use OpenIGTLinkIO also in 3D Slicer and Plus (for making them simpler and easier to maintain)