NA-MIC Project Weeks

Open Anatomy Browser

Key Investigators

Michael Halle (BWH)
Ben Ball (BWH)
Abián Hernández-Guedes (ULPGC - GTMA - MACbioIDi)
María Dolores Afonso-Suárez (ULPGC - GTMA - MACbioIDi)
Jose Carlos Ruiz-Luque (ULPGC - GTMA - MACbioIDi)
Juan Ruiz-Alzola (ULPGC - GTMA - MACbioIDi)

Project Description

The main objective of this project is to develop the open anatomy browser as a training platform for a wide audience, including developing countries. In the first place, we plan its adaptation to different languages and study its functionality to import/export data in order to facilitate the communication between both platforms (OpenAnatomy and Slicer). We also will develop new tools to view the atlas and add new annotations to its structures.

Objective

To use the HAWG atlas format as a convenient container for storing information about structures
To bring more anatomic metadata into the SPL brain atlas
To define a strategy to follow in order to tackle i18n and L10n Oabrowser projects
To study how to import/export data from 3DSlicer to the HAWG atlas format
Create a prototype with both projects (i18n-L10n and import/export)

Approach and Plan

Refine a HAWG parser
Study the framework and modules of oabrowser
Review other examples
Investigate additional features to validate the prototypes

Progress and Next Steps

An export module that reads Slicer scene data and outputs a TSV file which can then be turned into a HAWG file has been implemented. It exports images, models, and colors. Work is ongoing to export label maps and lookup tables, tying together labels, models, and structure names. We expect this next step will be done within a week or so.
We have explored several options for internationalization (both the application and the data). We are prototyping tools to help with structure translation. Prototyping the JavaScript-based apps is more complicated.
Medical student Ben Ball will be aligning the SPL brain atlas with TA98 vocabulary and filling in Wikipedia links.