CARS 2018 Tutorial

Open-source software platform: a hands-on tutorial on clinical application prototyping

  • Date and time: June 23, 2018, 9:00 – 13:00
  • Location: Buenos Aires room at the CARS conference location
  • Register at the CARS website

Event organizers

  • Javier Pascau, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Tamas Ungi, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
  • Sonia Pujol, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  • Gabor Fichtinger, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Hands-on session instructors

  • David García Mato, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Mónica García Sevilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

How to prepare

  • Bring your laptop. So you can follow the hands-on guide and implement your own surgical navigation software. Special devices will be provided by the presenters. Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems are supported.
  • Download 3D Slicer 4.8.1 version from this page
  • Install the following 3D Slicer extensionsSlicerIGT, Sequences, SlicerDMRI. (Note that UKFTractorgraphy will also be installed as a dependency of SlicerDMRI.) Extensions are available in the Extension Manager from the View menu of 3D Slicer.
  • Download the tutorial data package from this link
  • Download the tutorial checkpoints from this link

Preliminary program

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Time|Title

9:00|Welcome and introduction

9:05|CustusX: an open-source research platform for image-guided interventions – Thomas Langø (Chief Scientist, SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway)

9:35|MITK: from open source research to clinical application development – Alfred Franz (Senior scientist, CAMI, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; Professor, Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany)

10:05|Introduction to PLUS and SlicerIGT

10:30| Coffee break

11:00|Preparations for the Hands-on tutorial (check laptops, software, tutorial data, network connections)

11:30|Hands-on tutorial: Building a brain surgery navigation system using open-source software (bring your laptop, all other devices will be provided by the presenters)

13:00|Adjourn

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toolkit for navigated interventions