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NeedleFinder: fast interactive needle detection.It provides interactive tools to segment needles in MR/CT images. It has been mostly tested on MRI from gynelogical brachytherapy cases. [6]
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Authors: Guillaume Pernelle<br>
Contact: Guillaume Pernelle, <email>gpernelle@gmail.com</email><br>
Website: https://github.com/gpernelle/NeedleFinder<br>
License: [http://www.slicer.org/pages/LicenseText Slicer license]<br>

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NeedleFinder: fast interactive needle detection.It provides interactive tools to segment needles in MR/CT images. It has been mostly tested on MRI from gynelogical brachytherapy cases. 

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[http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3/folder/876 Phantom Study] and
[https://github.com/xjchen/igyne/tree/master/Sample%20data Sample data]

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Image:IGyne-needleSegmentation.png|Real needles segmentation

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[1] http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2012_Summer_Project_Week:iGyne
 
[2] Xiaojun Chen, Jan Egger, Akila Viswanathan, Neha Agrawal, William Wells, Ron Kikinis, Clare Tempany, Ferenc Jolesz and Tina Kapur.  "Image Processing for MR-guided Gynecologic Interstitial Brachytherapy in AMIGO", The 9th Interventional MRI Symposium. September 22-23, 2012.

[3] Gao, Farhat, Pernelle et al. "Needle Labeling for Interstitial Gynecological Brachytherapy". Fifth National Image Guided Therapy Workshop, Sept 21, 2012

[4] Pernelle, Egger, Vale, Chen, Irlinger, Lueth, Wells, Kikinis, Viswanathan and Kapur. Robust Applicator Registration for Interstitial Gynecologic Brachytherapy. ABS 2013 Annual Meeting

[5] Pernelle. "Needle labeling for Image-Guided Brachytherapy", Masters thesis (in preparation). Technical University Munich and Ecole Centrale Marseille, Dec 14, 2012

[6] Pernelle, Guillaume, et al. "Validation of Catheter Segmentation for MR-Guided Gynecologic Cancer Brachytherapy." Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention–MICCAI 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 380-387.
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Start by clicking on "Start Giving Needle Tips" and at each click in the 2D axial viewer, a needle will be segmented. You can display, delete the needles individually or all together. You can also differentiate the different insertion steps and separate each group of needles.

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