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High Confidence Software for Image-Guided Therapy
Robert L. Galloway, PhDProfessor of Biomedical Engineering,
Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of SurgeryDirector, Center for Technology-Guided Therapy
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
Disclosure
Robert L, Galloway PhD is a Founder, President and Chief Technical Officer of Pathfinder Therapeutics Inc
Nashville TN
TGT
Technology-Guided Therapy
The central principle behind TGT is that therapy delivery is as important as the therapeutic
process.
Technology-Guided Therapy
The use of images, not as pictures but as maps.
Technology-Guided Therapy• Need images and knowledge of the
information images convey and their spatial characteristics.
• Need a three (or six) dimensional tracking system.
• Need a methodology for the visualization of path, structures and target.
• Need a method of registration from physical space to image spaces (s)
TGT
Image-Guided Liver Surgery
Cortical Surface Mapping
Patient #1
Comparison between digital and physical labels:
New Surgical Applications
• One of the most prevalent cancers in the US
• Visualization of the layered structure of the rectum is important for staging and therapy
• Macular degeneration leading cause of adult blindness.
• Responds to drug treatment of the back of the eye and optic nerves.
OphthalmologyColorectal Cancers
New Therapeutic Applications
• Creation of Dose distribution
• Guidance of the placement of sources
• Only available therapy for the profoundly deaf
• Outcome tends to be binary
• 1% morbidity (Facial nerve)
Cochlear ImplantationGene Therapy
Software Design
ORION Software Design
Video
Tomogram
Rotational
2-D Images
DisplayOptotrak
Polaris
Shape Tape
Magnetic
Localizer
Render
Biopsy
Preop Plan
Transparency
GraphicA-Mode US
Electrophys.
Biomechanical
Optical Biopsy
IO
Quaternion
SVD
HTM
ICP
Registration
Deformation
Functional
Correction
ORION
TGT
ORION
• Based on Dynamic Link Libraries so only functionality needed at runtime is loaded.
• Allows inclusion of new functionality without changing underlying code.
• Written in Visual C, Windows API and runs under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP.
TGT
New Software Design Functional Classes, Present
State• Display
– Tomograms, rotational sets and video
• Localizer – Optotrak– Polaris/Aurora– Polhemus– Other
• Registration – Point-based quaternion
and SVD– point based HTM– ICP surface
• Graphics – two types of overlay
supported– on the fly rendering
(Open GL)– Preoperative plan
• IO– Neurostimulator
• Corrections– Model Updated
TGT
Provocation #1
HIPAA is dangerous to patients.
Constraint of information and patient identification will lead to patient-information mismatches.
Provocation #2
Hippocrates was wrong.
In analyzing software’s potential dangerto one subject is to deny other potential patients timely access to the technology. Such an approach also serves as a barrier to revision.
Bio
Robert L. Galloway, Jr. is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neurological Surgery, and Surgery at Vanderbilt University. He teaches courses in Medical Instrumentation, Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Bioengineering. He has won half a dozen Excellences in Teaching and Professor of the Year awards. Galloway's research entails the design of systems for Interactive, Image-Guided Surgery, and holds 9 U.S. and international patents on devices arising from his research. He has published 75 manuscripts in refereed journals, edited books, and presented results of his work at over 90 scientific meetings. Galloway is a co-founder of Pathfinder Therapeutics Inc. and serves as President and CTO. He received a B.S. degree in Engineering. and Ph.D. from Duke, and a Masters in Engineering from UVA, all in Biomedical Engineering.