Open Architecture Image-Guided Therapy Software System

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去十年中，疾病治疗的重要发展之一是图像引导程序的发展。这种系统的兴起也与市场的收缩有关，少数公司成为该领域的主导者。在这样一个收缩的商业状态下，该领域不会迅速扩张，而是必须等待大公司在新应用程序中看到足够的潜在利润才能进行创新。新创新的障碍之一是图像引导程序任务的复杂性，需要理解三维跟踪系统、图像到物理空间配准技术、显示方法、图形技术、数据IO和使用术中数据来校正术前假设或处理时间变化的方法。在本提案中，我们建议为图像引导程序创建一个开放架构/闭源系统。这样的系统将允许组织、技术公司和其他更敏捷的创新者开发新系统的原型，而无需在其专业知识之外花费大量精力。它还将提供一个共同的平台，允许组织（学术，研究和商业）联盟在新的应用程序上联合起来，更快地将新的治疗技术推向市场。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): One of the important developments in disease treatment over the past decade has been the development of image-guided procedures. The rise of such systems has also been associated with a contraction of the market with a few companies becoming the dominant players in the field. In such a contracted commercial state, the field does not rapidly expand but rather has to wait for the large corporations see enough potential profit in new applications to innovate. One of the barriers to new innovation is the complexity of the imageguided procedure task, requiring understanding of three dimensional tracking systems, image to physical space registration techniques, display methodologies, graphic techniques, data IO and methods of using intraoperative data to correct preoperative assumptions or to deal with temporal changes. In this proposal we propose to create an open architecture/closed source system for image-guide procedures. Such a system would allow organizations, technology companies and other more agile innovators to prototype new systems without having to expend considerable effort outside of their expertise. It would also provide a common platform allowing consortia of organizations (academic, research and commercial) to coalesce on new applications bringing new therapeutic techniques to the market more quickly.