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Hamlyn worshop on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies

πŸŽ’ Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies

Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2023 πŸ”—
26th June 2023
London, UK

Introduction

Open-source software libraries for computer assisted surgery (e.g. Scikit-surgery, 3DSlicer, MITK, PLUS, CustusX, FAST and KitwareMedical) have shown great progress in the last twenty years due to their rapid innovation and adaption to new technologies, continuous release of open software and data for algorithm evaluation, and good documentation and educational resources for students, researchers, engineers and clinicians.

However, research-driven technologies bring challenges on the use of the latest generation of hardware; fast prototyping and validation of new algorithms; fragmented source code for heterogenous systems; high performance of medical image computing and visualisation in the operating room and standardisation of data quality and data privacy. Such challenges raise the question of how to make open-source software libraries more sustainable, long-term supported and translatable to the clinic. This workshop aims to bring together engineers, researchers and clinicians to present and to discuss current progress, challenges and trends on open-source software interfaces for Surgical Technologies.

Programme

Time Title Speaker Links
09:00 Opening: Welcome & Introduction Miguel Xochicale πŸ“Ί
09:05 3D Slicer as your medical software development platform: Why and How Steve Pieper πŸ“Ί πŸ“–
09:30 ITK, 3D Slicer, and MONAI: Creating and sustaining impact with open-source, medical imaging software Stephen R. Aylward (online) πŸ“Ί πŸ“–
10:00 Developing a surgical planning platform for long-term sustainability: one decade worth of lessons. Rachel Sparks πŸ“Ί πŸ“–
10:30 Coffee Break --
11:00 SciKit-Surgery: Creating modular code, limiting the size of software to enable researcher participation. Stephen Thompson πŸ“Ί πŸ“–
11:15 Towards Open, Reproducible and Collaborative Surgical Data Science Alejandro Granados πŸ“Ί πŸ“–
11:30 CemrgApp: A Sustainable and Accessible Platform for Cardiovascular Research JosΓ© Alonso SolΓ­s-Lemus πŸ“Ί πŸ“–
11:45 SlicerROS2: ROS for Medical Robotics Laura Connolly πŸ“Ί πŸ“–

You can watch the talks of the workshop in this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtGJkyfu0klZlvZkPyDLArhjs7i39C-ld&si=wmOQZ2Qr5_QDWrg3

Learning Outcomes

Participants of the workshop will be exposed to leading authors of state-of-the-art open-source platforms for Surgical Technolgies aiming to have the following learning outcomes:

  • Developing open-source software interfaces including best practices of software engineering (e.g. maintenance, sustainability, etc) to create clinical impact.
  • Good practices for clinical translation including best practices to integrate preoperative and intraoperative data (e.g., tracking systems and clinical hardware), and protocols to handle clinical data for computer assisted surgical technologies.
  • Discussions on trends and the future of Surgical Technologies: how to quickly adopt the latest technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, augmented reality, high-performance computing, etc) while still complying with relevant quality standards.

Organisers

Mr Stephen Thompson, University College London
Dr. Thomas Dowrick, University College London
Prof. Matt Clarkson,University College London
Dr. Miguel Xochicale, University College London (Lead organiser)

Community

We have discussions to Ask questions you’re wondering about; Share ideas; Engage with other community members; Welcome others:
https://github.com/oss-for-surgtech/workshop-hamlyn2023/discussions

Join our discord server https://discord.gg/nZKtJrz8

Remember that this is a community we build together πŸ’ͺ.

White Paper

The aim of the white paper, in a short-term goal, is to encourage people in the workshop to collaboratively contribute and edit the project to create a comprehensive and valuable resource that benefits the entire community. Looking ahead, the long-term goal is to identify an appropriate venue where the white paper can be refined and prepared for submission. By taking this approach, If you have any thoughts, suggestions, or questions regarding this process, please do not hesitate to share them. Code, data and other resources to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/oss-for-surgtech/white-paper.

Clone repository

  • Generate your SSH keys as suggested here.
  • Clone the repository by typing (or copying) the following line in a terminal at your selected path in your machine:
cd && mkdir -p $HOME/repositories/oss-for-surgtech && cd  $HOME/repositories/oss-for-surgtech
git clone git@github.com:oss-for-surgtech/workshop-hamlyn2023.git