History of the IQWorks project

(Needs editing!)

A PhD project

IQWorks comes from software written by AndrewReilly as part of his PhD research, at the University of Edinburgh. It was written to perform Quality Assurance on digital imaging equipment in the Radiotherapy Department of the Edinburgh Oncology Centre.

Involvement of the CTUG

The need for Automated Image Analysis was identified at the UK CT User Group meetings. Various options of how to proceed were presented, and the concensus was to pursue Andrew's offer of opening up his software to the wider community under an open source licence.

Involvement of other UK parties

Other groups such as the IPEM's Diagnostic Radiology Special Interest Group (DRSIG) were also keen to establish a way that UK Physicists could improve the image analysis performed for QA of Diagnostic Imaging equipment.

A meeting was therefore organised by the IPEM DRSIG to discuss the various approaches that were being taken, and again the concensus was to get behind Andrew's software, IQWorks.

References

ASTRO 2007

Automated Analysis Software for the Objective Assessment and Optimisation of Radiotherapy Image Quality

• A.J. Reilly, D.I. Thwaites
• International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
• 1 November 2007 (Vol. 69, Issue 3, Page S719)

• Full abstract in the Red Journal
• Full abstract pdf

RSNA 2007

IQ Works: An Automated Image Analysis Framework for the Objective Assessment and Optimisation of Image Quality

• CODE: SSQ16-06 SESSION: Physics (Various Modalities: Nuclear Medicine, Optical, MR Imaging)
• Thursday, 29th November 2007, 11.20 AM
• Full abstract on RSNA Website

A New Package and the Evaluation of Detectors for Display and Projector Luminance Response Curve Calibration against the DICOM Part 14 Grayscale Standard Display Function (GSDF)

• CODE: SSJ16-05 SESSION: Physics (Visualization, Displays, PACS)
• Tuesday, 27th November 2007, 3.40 PM
• Full abstract on the RSNA Website
• Discusses the Display QA functionality in IQWorks