SA SIG Small Animal Imaging SA SIG

FACT Most humans are all animal Not all animals are human You have a head on your shoulders…

SA SIG Quick History Long long ago… Beginnings of Human Imaging. Late ‘70s digital imaging “tomography.” Human based on the *scientific concept of the crown. *Archimedes

SA SIG State-of-the-Art Human Imaging VS non-human animal imaging. THUS Reverse Translation of Human Imaging to Animal Imaging Technology Required.

SA SIG Visualization and Quantification of Fat

SA SIG Models: Prostate Cancer

SA SIG Imaging: Radiology to Histology

SA SIG Imaging: MRI Histology

SA SIG Novel Contrast Agents

SA SIG Contrast Agents: In-Vivo, In- Vitro NIST NINDS GUMC

SA SIG Concept of Integrated Imaging

SA SIG Pre-Post Intervention Link Free text is perhaps not the best annotation for preclinical research data. Classification may be needed. VOCABULARY *Adapted from Dr. T. J. FitzGerald, Quality Assurance Review Center Director’s Thursday Presentation. *

SA SIG Stereotaxic Surgery

SA SIG Stereotaxic Imaging

SA SIG Histological Sectioning

SA SIG Today’s Products

SA SIG Some Industry SAI Leaders:

SA SIG SOME Collaborating Institutions: John's Hopkins University U-Robotics Laboratory, Urological Institute (Baltimore, MD) Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School, Neurotoxicology & Molecular Imaging (Baltimore, MD) NIST, (Gaithersberg, MD) University of Virginia, Radiology & Biomedical Engineering, Small Animal Multi-Modality Imaging Center (Charlottesville, VA) NIH-NINDS, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging (Bethesda, MD) Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA) University of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) Georgetown University (Washington, DC) ASI Instruments Inc. (Warren, MI) You Too can become a part of this!

SA SIG Objectives: Establish overall structure and scope for Small Animal Imaging projects. Prioritize Small Animal imaging projects for Workspace. Define requirements for Small Animal Imaging data management standards. Propose integration requirements for “caBIG™ Compliant” In Vivo Imaging data management software and tools. Define operational requirements and procedures for caBIG™ integration of relevant small animal medical imaging commercial software systems. Prioritize tool and software development requirements. Create specifications against prioritized tools and activities. Develop test and validation requirement standards for Workspace software and tools. Review completed tools and projects, and evaluate against initial specification, test and validation requirements.

SA SIG Establish overall structure and scope for Small Animal Imaging projects. Call to Industry and SAILs centers Import/export of image data, meta file data. Link to associated data, spectroscopy, histology, etc. (to be defined.) Visualization tools (“veterinary radiology” space.), mapping of multimodality data. Identifier/classification labeling. Annotation + CAD.

SA SIG Prioritize Small Animal imaging projects for Workspace. Call to Industry. Call to major small animal imaging centers. Use of survey material

SA SIG Define requirements for Small Animal Imaging data management standards. Read/import image data from all digital imaging sources (DICOM may not be correctly implemented on these systems.) Read/import metafile information (not always part of header, sometimes separate file or not available.) Link radiological image data to histological image data and potentially. Map animal data to relevant human disease (Jackson Lab).

SA SIG Define requirements for Small Animal Imaging data management standards. (Continued) White paper on SAI data sources/formats. Identifier/classification labeling (modality(ies), species, type of animal model (genetic, induced, xenograft, mode of induction) Link data to genetic/other data. Veterinary coordinate system

SA SIG Propose integration requirements for “caBIG™ Compliant” In Vivo Imaging data management software and tools. Linear Methodology. Call to Standards and Interoperability (SIO). Call to Software Suggest standards to industry and SAILs perhaps through NCI, NCRR and other relevant funding agencies.

SA SIG Define operational requirements and procedures for caBIG™ integration of relevant small animal medical imaging commercial software systems.

SA SIG Prioritize tool and software development requirements.

SA SIG Create specifications against prioritized tools and activities.

SA SIG Develop test and validation requirement standards for Workspace software and tools. Call to test bed “what are you doing” (remember: emulation is the highest form of flattery) I.e. evaluate tumor volume with model (growth) and treatment (smaller??). Co-register modalities, phantom work.

SA SIG Review completed tools and projects, and evaluate against initial specification, test and validation requirements.

SA SIG Summary Vocabulary: Species, Models, contrast agents/tracers/ligans, Coordinates (rostral…), “Identifiers”.