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Call for Datasets for the EM Segmenter Use Case Library

Let us help you turn your segmentation problem into a success story. If you have an interesting or vexing segmentation problem that is not yet covered in the Library , send us your case: we will try to segment it for you and design a tailored segmentation approach you can use. We then add the anonymized data to the library and build a guided step-by-step tutorial for it. This is a time and resource limited service available until July 1, 2011.
If interested drop a line to Dominique.Belhachemi at uphs.upenn.edu or Kilian.Pohl at uphs.upenn.edu

What You Will Need To Do

• just send us an Email with a brief description of the problem
• send us your image data with the corresponding manual segmentation. Please provide more than 10 instances, so that we can generate a robust atlas.
• save your image data as NRRD or NIFTI files
• if you are unsuccessful in saving the data as described above (which is the anonymization), see our Anonymization Instructions , or let us know and we'll walk you through it.

What We Will Do

• based on your manual segmentations we will create a atlas
• we will create a 3DSlicer scene with optimized EM Segmenter parameters for your use case
• we will send you the final result as well as the procedure and parameters
• we will add your use case to our Segmentation Task Library which will become part of a future 3DSlicer version
• this will contain parameters for a successful segmentation which you can load directly into slicer and apply on your data
• we will post the anonymized image data as a new case in our Slicer Registration Case Library.
• this page will contain a description of your segmentation problem, the exact workflow of obtaining the segmentation, an acknowledgment of your lab and links to your institution and related research paper
• if you can provide us with criteria that define a good segmentation, we will use them in optimization efforts.
• example of what the final shared product will look like

Limitations/Disclaimer

• we can assist only with 3DSlicer software.
• this is a time-limited service, available in a first trial until 'July 1, 2011.
• depending on workload, we try to get you something within a few weeks, but we cannot guarantee a particular result or a specific turnaround time.
• all shared data-sets are anonymized. Sharing anonymized data in most cases is IRB exempt based on Code of Federal Regulations 45 CFR 46.101(b), which lists as exemption category 4:

   Unless otherwise required by department or agency heads, [...] the following categories are exempt [...]: 
   
   4.Research involving the collection or study of existing data, documents, records , pathological specimens, 
   or diagnostic specimens, if these sources are publicly available or if the information is recorded by the 
   investigator in  such a manner that subjects cannot be identified, directly or through identifiers linked 
   to the subjects.