Project overview

Core team

• Andras Lasso (project leader, [email protected]) - Queen's University, Kingston, ON
• Csaba Pinter - Queen's University, Kingston, ON
• Kevin Wang - UHN, Toronto, ON
• Greg Sharp - MGH, Boston, MA
• Steve Pieper - Isomics, Cambridge, MA

Scope

The following high-level functionalities are considered to be included in the toolkit:

• DICOM-RT import/export in 3D Slicer

  • Contours (structure sets)
  • Dose map
  • RT PLAN elements (see e.g., http://www.elekta.com/dms/elekta/elekta-assets/Elekta-Software/pdfs/technical-references/LED45020.pdf)

• Deformable transforms enhancement in 3D Slicer

  • Exporting deformable transformation result as a vector field from 3D Slicer
  • Visualizing a deformation field in 3D Slicer
  • Visualization of deformation quality (e.g. Jacobian)
  • Support for applying deformable transforms to objects in 3D Slicer the same way as for linear transforms (without hardening)
  • Showing/editing the parameters of deformable transforms
  • Assess deformable registration quality (Dice coeff, Tanimoto coeff; maybe Hausdorff distance)

• DVH support in 3D Slicer (http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2011_Summer_Project_Week_DVH)

  • Computation (from dose maps)
  • Display
  • Statistics on min, max, mean dose, hot spots

• Contours support in 3D Slicer

  • Naming (preserve contour names)
  • Support for overlapping contours
  • Comparison
  • Propagation

• CUDA acceleration in extensions

• Coordinate with ITC and CERR communities

• Better documentation of programming interfaces

• Real-time MRI scanner control and image acquisition through OpenIGTLink

• Image database

Use cases describing how these functions would be used for solving specific problems are described here: SlicerRt use cases.

Target clinical applications and systems:

• Supported procedures: MRI or US guided prostate biopsy? MRI guided gyna brachytherapy?
• Supported treatment planning and treatment system: Pinnacle? Cyberknife?

A survey was sent out to OCAIRO researchersto find out the needs of the OCAIRO group, find partners, define priorities. Google forms was used (free surveymonkey is limited to 10 questions/form):

• Survey public link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFVhdFRTMUl0V0dTVEdQc2t6Z3VLZGc6MQ&ifq
• Survey edit link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArYTFFr4CdLBdFVhdFRTMUl0V0dTVEdQc2t6Z3VLZGc&hl=en#gid=0

Current or prospective users of the toolkit

• Toronto PMH (David Jaffray): Kevin Wang
• Toronto Sunnybrook: Niranjan Venugopal, Lee Chin
• Toronto UofT: Dionne M. Aleman
• London UWO (Jerry Battista): Jeff Kempe
• Kingston KGH (John Schreiner): Greg Salomons
• Boston MGH: Greg Sharp
• Boston BWH: Tina Kapur
• QIN: contact Andriy Fedorov
• U Iowa: Junyi Xia
• Heidelberg ion facility: Kerstin Kessel

Related work

http://plastimatch.org/
http://cerr.info
http://code.google.com/p/dicompyler/
http://code.google.com/p/radpy/
http://www.medphys.mcgill.ca/~mmctp/MMCTP/Welcome.html (http://www.medphys.mcgill.ca/presentations/andrew2005.pdf)
http://planunc.radonc.unc.edu/ (http://planunc.radonc.unc.edu/software/planunc/plunc_docs/UserGuide.pdf)