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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]
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Authors: Guillaume Pernelle
Contact: Guillaume Pernelle, <email>gpernelle@gmail.com</email>
Website: https://github.com/gpernelle/NeedleFinder
License: Slicer license
Extension Description
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.
Modules
Use Cases
Real needles segmentation
Similar Extensions
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References
[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.
Information for Developers
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. A table shows some parameters of the caculated needles. If a registration has been done previously, it will assign to each needle the most probable label. It is also possible to tweak the needle segmentation parameters.
