2016 Winter Project Week/Projects/Tractography format interoperability

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Michael Onken, OFFIS
• Isaiah Norton, BWH
• Lauren O'Donnell, BWH

Project Description

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Aim 1: Develop DCMTK and Slicer support for DICOM tractography objects (supplement 181). Aim 2: Develop Slicer support for DiPy tractography i/o.	Aim 1: planning emails and data exchange before project week. prototype DCMTK support for supplement 181. (implement Slicer interface to load objects and metadata from DCMTK into tractography nodes?) Aim 2: implement support for DPY and TrackVis tractography file formats.	Aim 1: productive discussions explaining data processing and structure. designed high-level DCMTK API for accessing tractography objects. Aim 2: Prototyped stand-alone TrackVis reader (custom binary format) Bonus: Finished and submitted PR to move diffusion modules to remote module build: https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/442

Background and References

DICOM Supplement 181