Medical Image Registration Special Interest Group

The Medical Image Registration Special Interest Group (MIRSIG)

 

The missions of MIRSIG are to:

1. Provide a strong and unified driving force for the management of medical image registration in Australasia.
2. Provide professional standards and solutions for safe and effective use of medical image registration for the benefit of the public.

MIRSIG is the first special interest group to extend the opportunity for membership to members of related professional bodies such as ASMIRT, RANZCR, TROG, ANZSNM and IEEE, with a keen interest in medical image registration related issues, on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with specific guidelines.

How Do I Join MIRSIG?

• ACPSEM Members can join MIRSIG via "SG, SIG and Branches Portal" under "My ACPSEM" (after you login) and tick the box of "MIRSIG"
• If you are a financial members of ASMIRT, RANZCR, TROG, ANZSNM and IEEE, please click on the button below to register.

Annual General Meeting 2022

The 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Medical Image Registration Special Interest Group (MIRSIG) will be held on Thursday, 10 November 2022. The meeting will be held from 2.00pm - 3.00pm AEDT via Zoom. Click here to view the Agenda. 

Annual General Meeting 2021

The Annual General Meeting of the ACPSEM Medical Image Registration Special Interest Group was held on Thursday, 11 November 2021. Thank you to all who attended. 

The minutes of the meeting are available here. 

Upcoming Events

 

MIRSIG Position Statement | ***Originally scheduled for 5th July- Postponed til Dec '22***

Tuesday 6th December 2022
12:00PM - 1:00PM AEDT

Click here to view all upcoming ACPSEM events. 

Latest news and resources

• “MIRSIG foundation” article published February 2020 on the Better Healthcare Technology (BHT) Foundation website, by Michael Jameson https://www.betterhealthcaretechnology.org/medical-image-registration-special-interest-group-mirsig/
• MIRSIG June 2020 seminar talk "AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 132: Content and Recommendations", John Kipritidis summary - PDF
• MIRSIG July 2020 seminar talk "An international survey on the clinical use of rigid and deformable image registration in radiotherapy", Johnson Yuen - PDF (7 MB) - Video (Access via COMET) - Associated publication available at https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acm2.12957
• MIRSIG July 2020 seminar talk "Deforming to best practice: Key considerations for deformable image registration in radiotherapy", Jeffrey Barber - PDF (3 MB) - Video (Access via COMET) - Associated publication available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmrs.417
• MIRSIG August 2020 seminar talk “New Advances in Image Registration”, Jason Dowling – PDF (2MB)
• MIRSIG August 2020 seminar talk “Training for using image registration clinically”, Laurel Schmidt – PDF (2MB) - Video (Access via COMET) 
• MIRSIG September 2020 seminar talk "Practical methods to account for previous treatment", David Stewart - PDF (3MB)
• MIRSIG September 2020 seminar talk "Image registration applications and case studies", Adam Yeo - PDF (5MB)
• MIRSIG October 2020 seminar talk “Dose accumulation: Quantifying the uncertainty and identifying its applications”, Nick Lowther (attached); associated publications:
  • [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167814019335091
  • [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405631620300178
  • [3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405631618300794
  • [4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053429619300116
• MIRSIG October 2020 seminar talk “Quality Assurance for Adaptive Radiotherapy”, Ben Archibald-Heeren (attached)
• MIRSIG November 2020 seminar talk “Evaluating DLCExpert: Mirada’s Deep Learning Contouring Model”, Eddie Gibbons (attached)
• MIRSIG December 2020 seminar talk "Adaptive Lung Radiotherapy", Nicholas Hardcastle - PDF (Video accessible in COMET: login to MyACPSEM, click Comet, click ACPSEM webinars & Presentations)
• MIRSIG August 2021 seminar talk “Image Guided Radiation Therapy - a treatment vision - how treatment imaging has impacted clinical practice”, by Kylie Miller (attached)
• MIRSIG September 2021 seminar talk "Trials and Tribulations of Image Registration in Brachytherapy", Joel Poder (attached) 
• MIRSIG December 2021 seminar talk "Recap of the practical image registration workshop: accounting for previous treatments and replans", Laurel Schmidt (attached)

MIRSIG Leadership Committee:

Chair	Ben Archibald-Heeren
Secretary	Alison Gray
Technical Lead	Adam Yeo
Multi-disciplinary Lead	Laurel Schmidt
Publication lead	Amy Walker Michael Jameson (acting - Sep - Dec 2021)
Educational Lead	Johnson Yuen (acting) Position currently advertised
Trials Lead	Nick Hardcastle

 

Standardised reporting templates

• Offline Adaptive Evaluation Report Public V1.1 –(DOWNLOAD XLS LINK)

This worksheet has been developed by the ACPSEM Medical Imaging Registration Special Interest Group (MIRSIG). The sheet has been created through consensus between centres experienced in deformable registration and offline adaptive techniques with two specific intents: (1) To provide a measure of guidance for centres looking to incorporate new offline adaptive techniques and (2) To drive consistency among Australasian centres in documenting process, quality assurance and outcomes of offline adaptive analysis. The sheet is designed to assist in the offline assessment of dosimetry impacts of patient changes on treatment in respect to the need for a treatment replan. As an example, this sheet may be used in assessing the need for a replan after a week 3 fraction image of a head and neck patient shows considerable weight loss.

 

Note that this is a public version of a template as a voluntary standard. Each institution is responsible for their clinical decisions and processes. For more guidance, please see the webinar resources linked to this template (scheduled MIRSIG October 2020 Talk)

 

Note that there is a MIRSIG Offline Adaptive Data Collection Sheet Public V1.0 developed by the ACPSEM Medical Imaging Registration Special Interest Group (MIRSIG) to data mine from the MIRSIG Offline Adaptive Report Template. This searches all reports in a specified directory to provide statistics on all report data. Contact mirsig@acpsem.org.au for a copy of this spreadsheet.

Resources

• MIRSIG list of open data sets for deformable image registration V1.2 - PDF (840KB)

MIRSIG has generated a list of open source data sets suitable for deformable image registration. The idea is to collect as many open source data sets as possible from experts in medical imaging and radiation oncology community with a primary aim of using it to validate deformable image registration (DIR) systems. The secondary aim is to identify any gaps as per clinical need (e.g. body sites). For more guidance, please see the webinar resources linked to this template (scheduled MIRSIG March 2021 Talk)

Vacant leadership positions

• A suitable candidate (Medical Physicists, Radiation Therapist, Academic, Researcher, Radiation Oncologist, or other professional) to fill the volunteer position of “Educational Lead”. (attached)