Aerial Image Exploitation Change Detection Event Detection Object Tracking Region Classification Medical Image Analysis Automated Cancer Detection Automatic Pathology Quantification Automatic Segmentation Image-Guided Surgery Computer Aided Forensics Image-Guided Manufacturing Optical Gauging Optical Inspection Large-Part Metrology Automatic Defect Detection Automated Video Analysis Complex Scene Decomposition Market Intelligence Behavior Recognition 3D Reconstruction Ontology-Based Understanding

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing GE Research NA-MIC Activities Dart 2 – released in spring 2006 ITK – orientations, statistical distributions Slicer3 – execution model, example modules

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Dart 2 Released in spring 2006 Enterprise environment under investigation Now used by GE Healthcare to test imaging platforms (XJT, AW)

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Execution model User Desktop AlgorithmsITKVTK Slicer Modules VTK Apps Using ITK Scripts of Slicer Mods Batch Programs Non-NAMIC Cmd tools LONI Pipeline Birn Grid Data/Compute Slicer 3.0 Internal application framework using a Slicer 3 plugin

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Slicer 3 Modules CommandLineModule –Add –AffineRegistration –BSplineDeformableRegistration –CheckerBoard –ConfidenceConnected –CurvatureAnisotropicDiffusion –GEDicom2NRRD –GradientAnisotropicDiffusion –GrayscaleFillHoleImageFilter –GrayscaleGrindPeakImageFilter –GrayscaleModelMaker –HistogramMatching –ImageReadDicomWrite –LinearRegistration –MedianImageFilter –OtsuThresholdImageFilter –OtsuThresholdSegmentation –ResampleVolume –Subtract –VotingBinaryHoleFillingImageFilter

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Slicer 3 usage at GE Medical and biological image analysis Under consideration for contrast agent development Support research in explosive detection (baggage and cargo) May be available as an unsupported research tool on GE MR host platforms.

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing NA-MIC Team Bill Lorensen, MS (RPI), 39 years, Core 2 PI, software engineering, Slicer 3 architecture Jim Miller, PhD (RPI), 9 years, Site PI, software testing, segmentation, Slicer 3 execution model Dan Blezek, PhD (Mayo), 7 years, software testing, MRI, registration, Slicer 3 execution model Xiaodong Tao, PhD (JHU), 2 years, MRI, DTI, Slicer 3 data model

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Publications D. Blezek, J. Miller. "Atlas Stratification“. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2006 (MICCAI). LNCS 4190, pp. 712–719. X. Tao and J. V. Miller. "A Method for Registering Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images“. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2006 (MICCAI). LNCS 4191, pp