Project Week 25/Tracked-Ultrasound-Standardization-IV

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Key Investigators

Simon Drouin (Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada)
Andras Lasso (Queen's University, Canada)
Csaba Pinter (Queen's University, Canada)
Ole Vegard Solberg (SINTEF, Norway)
Etienne Leger (Applied Perception Lab, Concordia University, Canada )
Longquan Chen (electronically) (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
Adam Rankin (electronically) (Robarts Research Institute, Canada)

Project Description

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
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, OpenIGTLinkIO 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 and augmented reality in surgical navigation	Improve message header sent by Plus Toolkit for US machines(Ole Vegar, Simon) Build a complete US session simulation (OpenIGTLinkIO motifs, Plus config, Automated tests) (Ole Vega, Simon) Add missing functionality in OpenIGTLinkIO to complete reintegration in OpenIGTLinkIF (Simon, Longquan ) Improve support to launch Plus server remotely (Csaba + Andras) Adapt OpenIGTLinkIO to handle video compression functionality added to OpenIGTLink (Etienne + Longquan + Adam)	Progress in OpenIGTLinkIO (changes in branch on SINTEF's fork of OpenIGTLinkIO ) Simplified handling of command messages in OpenIGTLinkIO. US parameters are now in the header of each image header. Created a US simulation session where 2 parameters (depth and frequency) of the US machine can be remotely controlled. (TODO: put file here) Added support for video streaming (including compression) in OpenIGTLinkIO (Lonquan, remotely). Changes are in Longquan's fork master branch. Remote change of ultrasound parameters. Topic branch: https://github.com/cpinter/PlusLib/tree/set-us-parameters-command New command to Plus called vtkPlusSetUsParameterCommand Received command is propagated to the ultrasound device and parameter change is requested Example command syntax: <Command Name="SetFrequencyMhz" ParameterDoubleValue="4" /> (Parameter argument not final) Next step Polish code and merge SINTEF's and Longquan's master branch for OpenIGTLinkIO and Csaba's topic branch in Plus. Add support (both in Plus and OpenIGTLinkIO) for automatic probing of US machine capabilities and settable parameters. Finish the work on remote Plus server launch. Build an auto-populated GUI to control US machine in OpenIGTLinkIO. GUI is populated according to parameters recovered from probing US machine remotely