Welcome to the Medical Image Registration Special Interest Group!

 

Mission:

How to Join:

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. 

The 2021 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. 

• “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)

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

 

Reporting Templates:

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 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: