Aerial Image Exploitation

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• 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

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GE Research NA-MIC Activities

• Dart 2 released in spring 2006
• ITK orientations, statistical distributions
• Slicer3 execution model, example modules

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Dart 2

• Released in spring 2006
• Enterprise environment under investigation
• Now used by GE Healthcare to test imaging
  platforms (XJT, AW)

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Execution model
Internal application framework using a Slicer 3
plugin
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Slicer 3 Modules

• CommandLineModule

• Add
• AffineRegistration
• BSplineDeformableRegistration
• CheckerBoard
• ConfidenceConnected
• CurvatureAnisotropicDiffusion
• GEDicom2NRRD
• GradientAnisotropicDiffusion
• GrayscaleFillHoleImageFilter
• GrayscaleGrindPeakImageFilter

• GrayscaleModelMaker
• HistogramMatching
• ImageReadDicomWrite
• LinearRegistration
• MedianImageFilter
• OtsuThresholdImageFilter
• OtsuThresholdSegmentation
• ResampleVolume
• Subtract
• VotingBinaryHoleFillingImageFilter

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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.

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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

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Publications

• D. Blezek, J. Miller. "Atlas Stratification.
  Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted
  Intervention 2006 (MICCAI). LNCS 4190, pp.
  712719.
• 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. 594-602.