SoniaPujol,Ph.D.BrighamandWomen’sHospital

HarvardMedicalSchool

MICCAI2015DTIChallenge:

Instruc8onsforaccessingthedata

DTIChallengeWG

•  TheDTIChallengeisaworkinggroupofclinicians,clinicalresearchersandcomputerscienEstswithafocusontheevaluaEonofdiffusionMRItractographytechniquesforneurosurgicaldecision-making.

•  The2015DTIChallengeRepositorycontainstheneurosurgicaldatasetsofthe5thediEonoftheDTIChallengeWGworkshopattheMICCAI2015conference.

DTIChallengeDataRepository

ThedatasetsoftheDTIChallengearelocatedinthe�MICCAI2015DTITractographyChallenge�repositoryontheXNATCentralwebsitehSp://central.xnat.org

DTIChallengeDataRepository

Thistutorialguidesyouthroughthestepsof1)  creaEnganaccount

onXNATCentral2)  accessingtheDTI

Challengedirectory3)  downloadingtheDTI

Challengedatasets

Step1:CreaEnganaccountonXNATCentral

GototheXNATCentralmainpagelocatedathSp://central.xnat.organdselectRegister

Step1:CreaEnganaccountonXNATCentral

•  FillintheuserregistraEonformwithyourusername,passwordandcontactInforma8on.•  IntheCommentssecEon,includeabriefdescripEonofhowyouplantousethedata.�

Step2:RequesEngDataAccess

Onceyouraccountiscreated,pleasesendyourxnatusernametocontact@dE-challenge.org.Yournamewillbeaddedtothelistofcollaboratorswithaccesstothedata.

Step3:AccessingtheDataA]erlogginginonXNATCentral,selectthetabProjectsandentertheIDDTIChallenge15.ClickonSubmittoaccesstherepository.

Step3:AccessingtheData

ClickonMICCAI2015DTITractographyChallengetoaccessthedatasets.

DTITractographyChallengeRepository•  ThefollowingsecEonshowshowtodownloadthedataofPa8ent1

•  ThesameprocedurewillapplyfortheothercasesoftheDTIChallenge.

ClickonPa8ent1

DTITractographyChallengeRepository

SelectManageFiles

DTITractographyChallengeRepository

TheFileManagershowsallthefilesavailableforPa8ent1.

DTITractographyChallengeRepositoryThePa8ent1directorycontainsthefollowingfiles:-  paEent1_dwi.zip-  paEent1_3Dmodels.zip-  paEent1_anatomical_regions-  paEent1_README-  paEent1_dE.zip-  paEent1_mri_registered.zip-  paEent1_mri_original.zip-  paEent1_labelmap_registered.zip

DTITractographyChallengeRepository

Op8on1:Clickonthenamesofthedifferent.zipfilestostartdownloadingtheziparchivesindividuallyOp8on2:ClickonDownloadtodownloadallthefilesatonce.

Summary1.  LoginintotheXNATCentralwebsiteandcreateanaccount

(hSp://central.xnat.org)2.  Sendane-mailtocontact@dE-challenge.orgwithyourXNAT

username3.  Clickon'PaEent1'andthenon'MRSession'toaccessthe

datasetsforpaEent14.  Clickon'ManageFiles'ontherightsideofthescreento

accessthefiles

CitaEons•  ToreferencetheDTIChallengeinscienEficpublicaEons(journal

publicaEons,conferencepapers,technicalreports,presentaEonsatconferencesandmeeEngs),pleaseusethefollowingcitaEon:

TheDTIChallenge:TowardStandardizedEvaluaEonofDiffusionTensorImagingTractographyforNeurosurgery.PujolS,WellsW,PierpaoliC,BrunC,GeeJ,ChengG,VemuriB,CommowickO,PrimaS,StammA,GoubranM,KhanA,PetersT,NeherP,Maier-HeinKH,ShiY,Tristan-VegaA,VeniG,WhitakerR,StynerM,WesEnCF,GouSardS,NortonI,ChauvinL,MamataH,GerigG,NabaviA,GolbyA,KikinisR.JNeuroimaging.2015Aug11.doi:10.1111/jon.12283