# Presentation: 649911

## caBIGTM In Vivo Imaging Breakout caBIGTM Annual Meeting April 10, 2006

## caBIGTM Annual Meeting:  In Vivo Imaging BreakoutIntroduction by Eliot Siegel, MDIn Vivo Imaging Workspace Lead

- Goals
- Advance imaging informatics on multiple fronts
- Create, optimize, and validate software tools
- Model methods to extract meaning from in vivo imaging data**.**

## In Vivo Imaging Workspace

- Structure
- Eliot Siegel – Workspace Lead
- Four Special Interest Groups (SIGs):
-  Software
- Standards and Interoperability
- Testbed
- Vocabularies & Common Data Elements.
- Fifteen Funded Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
- More than Seventy Volunteer Participants including participants from industry

## Software Special Interest GroupLead by Bradley Erickson, MD, PhD and Fred Prior, PhD

- SIG Goals
- Open source software tools.
- Imaging Reference Workstation.
- Database resources and software for change analysis.
- Methodologies for software and algorithm validation.

**Notes:**
SIG Goals
Create and adapt open source software tools that can make use of the caBIGTM grid infrastructure to retrieve images and information from a distributed database.
Creation of a Research Reference Workstation for clinical trials that supports image retrieval, analysis and annotation .
Create database resources and software for change analysis including methodologies for software and algorithm validation. 
SIG Objectives

## Software Special Interest GroupLead by Bradley Erickson, MD, PhD and Fred Prior, PhD

- Software Project:  Imaging Research Workstation

**Notes:**
The IRW is a METHOD for rapidly prototyping "medical imaging workstation" applications from a re-usable, extensible set of modular elements. 
Researchers will be able to rapidly develop and evaluate new approaches to medical imaging problems, and use them in a translational research setting. 
Grid technology in general, and caGrid in particular, makes is possible to develop an architecture that allows users to choose between grid based components and locally available components. 
Analytic services (CAD algorithms, algorithms for quantifying changes in consecutive imaging studies, algorithms associated with a 3-D visualization pipeline etc). 
Data sources might or might not be DICOM based. 
Both data and algorithms can be physically distributed. 
What will be defined are the requirements for the "reference workstation class", from which many instances could be made for special purposes, and a “reference workstation example instance” 

## Standards and Interoperability Special Interest GroupLead by David Channin, MD and Paul Nagy, PhD

- SIG Goals
- Explore the needs of the image based clinical trials community
- Identify gaps in existing standards and practices.
- Development of informatics tools to fill these gaps.

***IHE ***Radiology

## Standards and Interoperability Special Interest GroupLead by David Channin, MD and Paul Nagy, PhD

- SIO Project:  Annotations

## Testbed Special Interest GroupLead by Joel Saltz, MD, PhD and Stephan Erberich PhD

- SIG Goals
- CAD & Employ/Image Quantification (IQ) for Co-Op Groups support, (QARC), and radiation dose quantification.
- Mark up/annotation of images for humans reviewing co-op group studies.
- Comparison of human/computer detection, and metadata/object model representation, (caDSR, EVS, caGRID).
- Interoperability of MIRC, IHE, DICOM, caGRID, and HL7.

**Notes:**
Evaluate CAD & Employ/Image Quantification (IQ) for Co-Op Groups support, (QARC), and radiation dose quantification.
Create mark up/annotation of images for humans reviewing co-op group studies, comparison of human/computer detection, and metadata/object model representation, (caDSR, EVS, caGRID).
Facilitate interoperability of MIRC, IHE, DICOM, caGRID, and HL7.
CAD

## Testbed Special Interest GroupLead by Joel Saltz, MD, PhD and Stephan Erberich PhD

- Testbed Project:  Middleware

## Vocabularies & Common Data Elements SIGLead by Curt Langlotz, MD, PhD and Daniel Rubin, MD

- SIG Goals
- Standards-based vocabularies, ontologies, and CDEs for radiology and allied imaging fields.
- Vocabulary-related elements required by the Testbed .
- Standards for creating, storing, and retrieving image metadata and image annotations.
- Harmonize with VCDE workspace.
- VCDE-specific tools and resources that can be deployed on the caGrid.

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**Notes:**
SIG Goals
Promote, support, develop, and evaluate standards-based vocabularies, ontologies, and CDEs for radiology and allied imaging fields. 
Participate in the design of the testbed and provide the vocabulary-related elements required by the testbed .
Help develop the standards for creating, storing, and retrieving image metadata and image annotations. 
Harmonize VCDEs developed in the VCDE SIG with those being created by the VCDE workspace, and will develop VCDE-specific tools and resources that can be deployed on the grid to help realize the strategic vision of the caBIG effort. 

## Vocabularies & Common Data Elements SIGLead by Curt Langlotz, MD, PhD and Daniel Rubin, MD

- VCDE Project:  Vocabulary
- Requirements of Imaging Research Workstation

## In Vivo Imaging Workspace involvement in RSNA 2006Eliot Siegel, MD, 

- 6
- Workstations:
- SIG 2
- Software

- 6
- Workstations:
- SIG 1
- Testbed
- Architecture

- 3
- Workstations:
- SIG 4
- Standards

- 3
- Workstations:
- SIG 3
- Vocabulary

- 2
- Workstations:
- NCIA
- RIDER

- 2
- Workstations:
- caBIG demo
- 1 spy,
- Rembrandt

- 4
- Workstations:
- Allies
- Pharma
- Device
- ?CRO

- 2
- Workstations:
- NCI
- CIP demo
- Projects
- IDRi

- Theme Park Directory & Purpose

## Q&A and Wrap UpLead by Eliot Siegel, MD, In Vivo Imaging Workspace Lead

- Q&A and Wrap UpLead by Eliot Siegel, MD, In Vivo Imaging Workspace Lead

- Engage in projects that further the strategic goals of the Imaging Workspace and caBIGTM program.
- Identify synergies with the other caBIGTM workspaces.
- Partner with external organizations within the caBIGTM community, (ex.; ACRIN, NCIA), to further Imaging Workspace and caBIGTM program goals