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| ### *    | ### **Imaging Monthly All Participants Meeting**          |
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|  Title** |                                                           |
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| # **Atte |                                                           |
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| #        | ### **July 24, 2007 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM**                  |
| ## **Dat |                                                           |
| e/Time** |                                                           |
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| ### **Su | ### **Paul Mulhern g                                      |
| mmary (i | ave the imaging workspace update, in which he discussed t |
| n Bullet | he status of recently initiated and proposed projects:**  |
|  Point f |                                                           |
| ormat)** | ### **Algorithm Vali                                      |
|          | dation Tools (AVT), an open bid RFP, has been reviewed an |
|          | d awarded to IBM / Mayo and Siemens. It is planned that b |
|          | oth parties will work on Phase I (the planning phase) and |
|          |  will present their deliverables to the SW SIG. Phase II  |
|          | is planned to be initiated upon completion of Phase I.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The gACRIN p                                        |
|          | roject has been sole sourced to ACRIN. The Query Formulat |
|          | ion RFP has been released and LOIs have been received.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The DICOM Ont                                       |
|          | ology Project Description is currently under review, with |
|          |  advancement in the process expected at a future date.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Candidate projects, proposed for                    |
|          | the next fiscal year, are currently being prioritized. Pr |
|          | oject prioritization results will be reported shortly.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Dani                                                |
|          | el Rubin and Curt Langlotz provided a VCDE SIG update:**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Daniel Rubin has written a project d                |
|          | escription for OntoX, a knowledge based framework that wi |
|          | ll allow researchers to pose questions and create the pro |
|          | cessing pipelines they need to answer those questions.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The AVT winners will be able to participate in      |
|          | the VCDE / SIO SIG calls to get regular updates on AIM.** |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Cur                                                 |
|          | t Langlotz mentioned that he has several RadLex deliverab |
|          | les for review at the August 6^th^ VCDE / SIO SIG call.** |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ###                                                       |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Chuck Kahn provided the SIO SIG update:**           |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The AIM Model is close to complete, and that it w   |
|          | ill be released to the SMEs for review this week. The SME |
|          | s, the NCIA, David Clunie, and others on the reviewer lis |
|          | t will revise on the model to arrive at a final model.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **AIM Quarter 2 deliverables are being worked on.**   |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The AIM team is working on the cod                  |
|          | e to serialize the AIM Annotations to DICOM SR and HL7 CD |
|          | A, as the native format of the AIM Annotations is XML.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The current AIM draft m                             |
|          | odel will be provided to the AVT teams within the week.** |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Q                                                   |
|          | uery Formulation will have interdependencies with AIM.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The last topic of discussi                          |
|          | on was the re -- structuring of telecons. It was stated t |
|          | hat further iterations of the survey will likely be requi |
|          | red before a final time is decided upon for the calls.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Fred Prior provided the Software SIG update:**      |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The Software SIG is planning                        |
|          |  to work with the two AVT teams to get them kicked off wi |
|          | th the same set of requirements, review their deliverable |
|          | s separately, and give each of them appropriate input.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The SIG is                                          |
|          |  currently getting their RSNA demonstrations in place.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **The XIP team                                        |
|          |  is close to finishing the open source version of the bui |
|          | lder tool -- members of the workspace will work with the  |
|          | tool before it is released to the general public. The bui |
|          | lder tool, although open source, will be released under G |
|          | PL rather than the more popular caBIG open source license |
|          |  agreement. While extensions to the builder tool will hav |
|          | e to be GPL, the XIP applications will not have to be.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **T                                                   |
|          | he WG -- 23 interfaces are being prototyped -- vendors wi |
|          | thin the WG -- 23 community are working with XIP to make  |
|          | sure that XIP fits appropriately with their interfaces.** |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ###                                                       |
|          |                                                           |
|          | #                                                         |
|          | ## **Stephan Erberich provided the Testbed SIG update:**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **It was reported that the                            |
|          | re has been progress in enhanced MATLAB, the caGrid enabl |
|          | ed XML server, and the federated query infrastructure.**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Tony Pan and Joel Saltz stated that the interop     |
|          | erability between existing projects (AIM, XIP, NCIA, Midd |
|          | leware) should be explicitly demonstrated at RSNA 2007.** |
|          |                                                           |
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| **Action | ## **Paul Mulhern and Vikram Purohit will go through the  |
|  Items** | responses for re -- structuring telecons, talk to David C |
|          | hannin, and then send out a memo for a new telecon schedu |
|          | le to the workspace, listing 3 -- 4 favored time slots**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Paul Mulhern and Vikram                             |
|          | Purohit will invite Cooperative Group Testbed SIG call pa |
|          | rticipants to July 25, 2007 Middleware Testbed SIG call** |
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| ###      | ###                                                       |
|          |                                                           |
| ###      | ### **Link to Middleware Deliverables**                   |
|          |                                                           |
| ##       | ### **- <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/plugins/scmcv         |
| # **Arti | s/cvsweb.php/middleware/Developer/?cvsroot=middleware>**  |
| facts (E |                                                           |
| mbedded  | ### **Link to Middleware Prototype Code**                 |
| Document |                                                           |
| s, GForg | ### **- <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/plugins/scmc          |
| e Links, | vs/cvsweb.php/middleware/projects/?cvsroot=middleware>**  |
|  etc.)** |                                                           |
|          | ### **Link to XIP Deliverables**                          |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **- <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov                       |
|          | /plugins/scmcvs/cvsweb.php/xip/Developer/?cvsroot=xip>**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Link to RadLex Deliverables**                       |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **- <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/plugi                 |
|          | ns/scmcvs/cvsweb.php/radlex/Developer/?cvsroot=radlex>**  |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **Link to AIM Deliverables**                          |
|          |                                                           |
|          | ### **- <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov                       |
|          | /plugins/scmcvs/cvsweb.php/aim/Developer/?cvsroot=aim>**  |
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