[IGSTK-Developers] plans for future iterations and Georgetowndemo applications

[Hui Zhang]

Hi, Andinet,

AFAIK, the robot's interface is coming with the manufacturer of the Deck of 
Cards robot, which uses a Server/Client mechanism. When Heesu's application 
is running, the server should run at the background and the application may 
establish a communication with the server by the TCPIP communication (not 
quite sure). The TCPIP mechanism can make it work as a distributed control 
system.
In Heesu's application, the deck of cards robot uses a Z-frame registration 
and show the image guidance as the Needle biopsy application. Z-frame 
registration is actually an extention of point-based rigid-body registration 
which maybe you would be interested to put it into IGSTK. The idea is to use 
one slice of z-frame intersection to determine the landmark points which are 
then used in the landmark registration.

Regards,
James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andinet Enquobahrie" <andinet.enqu at kitware.com>
To: <cleary at georgetown.edu>
Cc: "'IGSTK-developers'" <igstk-developers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [IGSTK-Developers] plans for future iterations and 
Georgetowndemo applications


> Hi Kevin,
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>>     * Georgetown Application 2: robot needle driver using the deck of
>>       cards robot (see picture attached) – Hee-su already put some of
>>       this together last fall with the then current version of IGSTK
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> This application sounds interesting. But, can an you give us more details? 
> For example, I assume that the robot's interface (the control software) is 
> already implemented. Was this done using igstk or another library? If this 
> was implemented in another library, then we will need to either import it 
> to igstk as a separate component or create a module plug in mechanism for 
> IGSTK applications to link with external libraries. Anyways, it would be 
> great if we have a requirements for this application similar to the other 
> ones. 
> (http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI/index.php/Example_Applications )
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> thanks
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>>     * UNC application: liver biopsy
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>> We could also discuss if there should be an application that Kitware 
>> focuses on. I could add more but let me start the discussion here and I 
>> will plan to be on the tcon on Thursday at 1 pm (that is 8 am Hawaii 
>> time)
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>> Kevin
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