EMBC 2014 Tutorial

2014-08-26-SlicerIGT-EMBC2014Tutorial

Building image-guidance systems from open-source components

EMBC 2014 — Tutorial event — Date/Time: 8:30am-12:30pm, August 26, 2014. Location: Mississippi room, Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers.

We encourage you to bring your own laptop to follow the hands-on session. All required software will be installed at the beginning of the hands-on session.

Outline and scope

This tutorial will introduce the participants to best practices in prototyping image-guidance systems for minimally invasive interventions using open-source software tools. After completing this tutorial, participants will be able to build systems for various clinical applications with minimal effort, without any custom software development.

Lectures in the first part of the tutorial give an overview of the most commonly used imaging, tracking, and guidance devices and methods in minimally-invasive interventions.

The second part will be a hands-on session, where the participants will build a real-time intervention navigation system using hardware devices provided by the organizers. The presented software tools will include the PLUS toolkit (www.plustoolkit.org) for interfacing various hardware devices, calibration, synchronization, processing, and live streaming; and 3D Slicer (www.slicer.org) for creating user interfaces with image processing and visualization options in the real time navigation scene.

Tutorial organizers

  • Andras Lasso PhD (Senior Research Engineer, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
  • Junichi Tokuda PhD (Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)

Speakers/Instructors

  • Gabor Fichtinger PhD (Professor, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
  • Junichi Tokuda PhD (Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
  • Andras Lasso PhD (Senior Research Engineer, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada)

Program

Lectures:

  • Development and translation process to the operating room through examples
  • Modular design and common interface – OpenIGTLink
  • The role of platform systems in translational research
  • Integration of various hardware devices and software algorithms into a common application framework

Hands-on session:

  • Recording and visualizing data from tracking devices
  • Needle navigation using pre-operative volumetric images
  • Building a tracked ultrasound system for volume reconstruction and needle navigation

 

toolkit for navigated interventions