1. NA-MIC National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org NAMIC-Kit Update Will Schroeder Jim Miller Bill Lorensen

2. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Progress This Year Project Relative Effort Current open-source NAMIC Kit components

3. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Slicer 3 Usage –End user application –Algorithm delivery platform –Application development framework

4. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Slicer (cont.) Past Year (New system) –Design discussions (2005) –Core Architecture (Feb. 2006) MRML Event processing Images, models, fudicials, transforms –Plug-in Modules (May 2006) Threaded GUI Command-line Modules Command-line processing

5. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Slicer (Past Year) More on the wiki: Slicer3:Status_Summary MRML Slices 3D View Data GUI Volume processing Models Transforms Application GUI Fiducials Execution model Editor Build / packaging DART Dashboard / testing

6. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Slicer (Past Year) Modules –ModelMaker –Fiducials –FreeSurfer readers –EM Segmenter –DTMRI

7. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Slicer 3 Modules CommandLineModule –Add –AffineRegistration –BSplineDeformableRegistration –CheckerBoard –ConfidenceConnected –CurvatureAnisotropicDiffusion –GEDicom2NRRD –GradientAnisotropicDiffusion –GrayscaleFillHoleImageFilter –GrayscaleGrindPeakImageFilter –GrayscaleModelMaker –HistogramMatching –ImageReadDicomWrite –LinearRegistration –MedianImageFilter –OtsuThresholdImageFilter –OtsuThresholdSegmentation –ResampleVolume –Subtract –VotingBinaryHoleFillingImageFilter

8. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Slicer Futures –(Much) more of the same –Refine GUI –Usability Undo/Redo Save/Restore scenes –Many new modules –More testing –Other data types –Performance –Hierarchies of data –Large data / grid processing –More clinical workflows Wiki: Slicer3:Developers Wiki: Wiki/index.php/Slicer

9. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org KWWidgets Usage –Cross-platform GUI with open source license Past year –New widgets –Work flow support –File/directory browser Futures –Tracing (for testing) –Registration inspection widget –Camera control widget –Interface to ITK (spatial objects) –Cleanup Kwwidgets.org

10. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org CPack Usage: –Package and deploy cross-platform software integrated with CMake Past Year –Brand new tool –Supports Windows, Linux, Mac Futures –Improved packaging –Advanced packaging and deployment –Packaging Slicer modules cmake.org

11. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org CMake Usage –Cross-platform build management Past year –Slicer CMake configuration –KDE deployment and support –Better Mac OSX, Win64 support Futures –Better NAMIC tool support (e.g., module integration) –External library integration cmake.org

12. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org ITK – Insight Toolkit Usage: –Image processing and analysis (segmentation and registration) This year –Bug fixes / Slicer integration –Fixed deployment issues –Data orientation –Probability distributions –Data I/O (DICOM, NRRD, MRML) Futures –DTI representation/processing –Statistics refactoring –IDL language binding –Pre-compiled headers itk.org

13. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org VTK Usage –Image, volume, surface display and processing –Event processing –3D human/computer interaction This year –Bug fixes –3D Widgets –Slicer 2.x integration with VTK 5.0 Futures –DTI fiber bundles –GPU-based volume rendering –Additional widgets –AMR / large data support vtk.org

14. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org DART Usage –Testing/dashboard server This year –Deployment –Base features –User accounts –Notifications –RSS –Bug fixes –Documentation Futures –Enterprise deployment na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Dart2Summary

15. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Insight Journal Open access publication –Supports publications, software and data –Open science (reproducibility) –Open peer review –Continuous revision of articles, code, and reviews

16. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org ISC/NAMIC Workshop on Open Science MICCAI 2006

17. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Insight Journal Used as gateway to receive software submissions –ITK Futures –Slicer modules ? insight-journal.org

18. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org BIRN Slicer / Grid Interface –Provide access to Grid-based infrastructures –Enable researchers to store large collections of federated data Grid Execution Module Slicer

19. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org BIRN – Time Frame Current May, 2007 August, 2007 Testing of Slicer3 module Monitoring portlet Incoporation into NA-MIC kit March, 2007 Testing of Grid Interface prototype

20. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Other – Large Data Processing LONI –The LONI Pipeline is a simple graphical environment for constructing complex scientific analyses of data –Revamped version 4 –Slicer integration proceeding (Slicer can query pipeline for list of required parameters) –http://www.loni.ucla.edu/Software/ BatchMake –Cross platform tool for batch processing of large amount of data –Can process datasets locally or on distributed systems using Condor –Script driven –Considering Slicer integration –Batchmake.org