A standard protocol for the exchange of nuclear medicine image files

Cradduck, Trevor D.; Bailey, Dale L.; Hutton, Brian F.; Conninck, F. De; Busemann-Sokole, Ellinor; Bergmann, Helmar; Noelpp, U.

doi:10.1097/00006231-198910000-00002

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“…Custom plug-ins were developed for ImageJ (Rasband, 1997(Rasband, -2008 to read and write CT data routinely stored in Interfile data format (Cradduck et al, 1989). Segmentation of the lungs in the CT datasets is done with a custom written plug-in "Extract_Lungs", which was more efficient than existing segmentation plug-ins (Parker, 2008, Castleman, 2005.…”

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Application of texture analysis to ventilation SPECT/CT data

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Harris

et al. 2011

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

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It is demonstrated that textural parameters calculated from functional pulmonary CT data have the potential to provide a robust and objective quantitative characterisation of inhomogeneity in lung function and classification of lung diseases in routine clinical applications. Clear recommendations are made for optimum data preparation and textural parameter selection.A new set of platform-independent software tools are presented that are implemented as plug-ins 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 "Application of texture analysis to functional pulmonary CT data", Meier et al. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 The potential for disease classification based on computer analysis is evaluated.

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Section: Softwarementioning

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Application of texture analysis to ventilation SPECT/CT data

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Harris

et al. 2011

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

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“…Trevor Cradduck, physicist in Ontario, Canada along with Bailey and Hutton, RPAH, and others worldwide, initiated a project and original specification for an industry-wide image file transfer standard aptly named Interfile 26 . It was slowly adopted by all vendors and is still the basis of a number of software platforms today.…”

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Thirty year celebration of the contribution of nuclear medicine physicists in Australia

Walker

2007

Australas. Phys. Eng. Sci. Med.

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“…In the MR case, the headers also contain a line stating the image to be either an unaltered volume or a volume to which the distortioncorrections technique has been applied. The headers conform to the Interfile standard [2], [5].…”

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Retrospective intermodality registration techniques for images of the head: surface-based versus volume-based

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Wang

et al. 1999

IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging

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The primary objective of this study is to perform a blinded evaluation of two groups of retrospective image registration techniques, using as a gold standard a prospective marker-based registration method, and to compare the performance of one group with the other. These techniques have already been evaluated individually [27]. In this paper, however, we find that by grouping the techniques as volume based or surface based, we can make some interesting conclusions which were not visible in the earlier study. In order to ensure blindness, all retrospective registrations were performed by participants who had no knowledge of the gold-standard results until after their results had been submitted. Image volumes of three modalities: X-ray computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), and positron emission tomography (PET) were obtained from patients undergoing neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on whom bone-implanted fiducial markers were mounted. These volumes had all traces of the markers removed and were provided via the Internet to project collaborators outside Vanderbilt, who then performed retrospective registrations on the volumes, calculating transformations from CT to MR and/or from PET to MR. These investigators communicated their transformations, again via the Internet, to Vanderbilt, where the accuracy of each registration was evaluated. In this evaluation, the accuracy is measured at multiple volumes of interest (VOI's). Our results indicate that the volume-based techniques in this study tended to give substantially more accurate and reliable results than the surface-based ones for the CT-to-MR registration tasks, and slightly more accurate results for the PET-to-MR tasks. Analysis of these results revealed that the rotational component of error was more pronounced for the surface-based group. It was also apparent that all of the registration techniques we examined have the potential to produce satisfactory results much of the time, but that visual inspection is necessary to guard against large errors.

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A standard protocol for the exchange of nuclear medicine image files

Cited by 25 publications

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Application of texture analysis to ventilation SPECT/CT data

Application of texture analysis to ventilation SPECT/CT data

Thirty year celebration of the contribution of nuclear medicine physicists in Australia

Retrospective intermodality registration techniques for images of the head: surface-based versus volume-based

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