Seminar 2008 03 12 3D Slicer
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CISST ERC Seminar
3D Slicer and the NA-MIC Kit: A Fully Open Platform for Medical Image Computing
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Place: CSEB B17 (Lunch will be served)
Speaker: Steve Pieper
Isomics, Inc.
Title: 3D Slicer and the NA-MIC Kit: A Fully Open Platform for Medical Image
Presentation: PDF, 9.6 MBytes
Abstract
3D Slicer is Open Source application software for image-based medical computing that can be applied to surgery, diagnosis, and basic science. 3D Slicer is designed to be readily extensible for new applications, allowing developers to leverage significant existing functionality for file IO, rendering, device interface, and analysis. The code is being developed in the context of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), a community of developers and users dedicated to realizing common infrastructure with software that is flexible and reusable in both its technical implementation and its software licensing. The NA-MIC Kit includes VTK, ITK, 3D Slicer and other packages which are available under a BSD style of license that allows the code to be freely used for both academic and commercial uses of the software. This presentation will cover the creation and history of the NA-MIC community, the major components and features of the NA-MIC Kit, and the group's ongoing activities with particular emphasis on how people can get involved and benefit from the efforts.
Bio
Steve Pieper, Ph.D. is a Computer Scientist with a long-time interest in applying Computer Graphics to problems in Medical Imaging, Surgical Planning, and Biomechanical Simulation expressed through entrepreneurship and academic research. Under Dr. Pieper's direction, Isomics, Inc. collaborates extensively with the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. At the SPL, Dr. Pieper is the Co-PI on several NIH grants and participates in research funded by NSF and DARPA. Through his participation in the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), he directs the SPL's efforts in both structural and functional imaging as part of a nationwide effort to build a research informatics infrastructure for multi-site clinical trials. He has also taken on responsibility for the ongoing development and maintenance of the 3D Slicer, the SPL's flagship software system. Dr. Pieper received a bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and M.S. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab. He has served on the faculty of Engineering at Dartmouth College and has taught Computer Science and Computer Graphics at Berkeley and MIT. He has been a founder of several medical imaging companies where he has held senior executive and technical positions.