On Sunday 06 March 2011 05:30 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hello,
thanks for your interest in Debian Med.
You are welcome. Nothing beats the ole' venerable Debian. In fact, I was
surprised to know about the distro focussed on the needs for biomedical
researchers. I have been following the mailing lists for over two weeks
now; thanks all of you!
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:30:40PM +0530, stereotactic wrote:
I have checked this site and added those project I was able to find
a homepage with description to an newly created task page about
oncology[1]. I was not able to find more detailed information about
openRADART
Homepage: ???
This was in response by a forum member; I couldn't find the web page
but I am presuming that this comes with installation of "Elekta
Machines"; possibly some sort of "internal builds" or not for public
release. I still need to get a confirmation for the same. I'd update the
list as soon as I get something about this.
TPS
Homepage: ???
TPS stands for "Treatment Planning System"; which I had mentioned in the
previous thread that is an amalgamation of the DOCM viewer, ability to
"contour" the images i.e. draw on the concerned structures, then define
the radiation beam parameters; the resultant output would show how the
different beam angles intersect and give the coverage of the organ as
"Dose Volume Histogram". The TPS solutions in market are close sourced
with heavily guarded algorithms.
EduCase
Homepage: http://www.educase.com/
-> but is tere any downloadable source code and what exactly does
the program you get if you compile this code
AFAIK, Educase needs around $10,000 for hosting on the site for
'training' which is beyond the scope for those not having institutional
subscriptions (and that effectively rules us out).There is no
"downloadable source code".
Any help or guidance on the same issue would be more than welcome.
I'm afraid that we can not (yet) provide a lot of help for the moment.
The goal of Debian Med is to package all kind of free medical software
to make it easily available in medical care. So I used your link to
detect potential candidates for packaging in Debian. From a first look
it seems that dicompyler ist the easiest packaging task (but I might be
wrong here). So the help we could provide is to build those packages
(or even help you building them by training how to do this properly)
and including it into official Debian and thus enableing also a smooth
propagation to derivatives (Ubuntu and others).
More than the Decompyler, these are two projects :
1) http://www.radonc.washington.edu/research/cancer-informatics/prism/
(I don't see any updates after 2004)
2)
http://planunc.radonc.unc.edu/software/planunc/downloads/planunc_software/
(This takes you to the download page of the free software- no updates
after 2008).
If this sounds attractive to you it would be reasonable to subscribe out
list and inform us about the most wanted targets. If you or somebody
you might know want to speed up the process a bit it is a very good way
to start with the packaging yourself and ask here for help if any
technical problem might occure.
Thanks once again but as you can see, the source code is written for
'perl' and can only be run in Windows. As far as my own limited
understanding is concerned, would it be worthwhile to package the whole
thing with "WINE + Perl+ Source Code"? That would be "one in all
solution" because it would not be possible to write the code from ground
up unless there is a project dedicated to the same (and I am missing it).
This is also a dedicated specialist project but potentially a good idea.
I can elaborate that on a separate thread, perhaps later.
Kind regards and thanks for your interest
Andreas.
[1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/oncology
Any other way out? I can help with testing; I can potentially rope in
other users (on debian) and help with bug reports, feedback and possibly
documentation (but none of us can code, as yet).
One way out could be to design this TPS that can run on the laptops, can
be hosted, perhaps give an option for remote access etc. There is
nothing (so far) in the newer generation TPS that is open source,
flexible and be hosted for training.
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Stereotactic
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual
beings having a human experience"
