Recurring Meeting of Cleveland Clinic Core Team

Date: June 9, 2015

Time: 10:30 AM EST

Means: In person meeting

Attendees:

1. Ahmet Erdemir
2. Craig Bennetts
3. Snehal Chokhandre
4. Callan Gillespie
5. Omar Gad
6. Connor Lough
7. Diana Suciu

Agenda:

1. Discuss immediate action items from the last meeting.
2. Discuss oks008 testing/ data.
3. Progress on summer internship projects.
4. Decide immediate action items for the next meeting.
5. Other.

Immediate Action Items:

• Ahmet
  • Disseminate oks008 MR image sets.
  • Create specifications page for analysis of patellofemoral contact pressures.
• Craig
  • Meet with summer students to go over convergence optimization wiki and describe workflow.
  • Provide sample MR images for oks008 in the relevant wiki page.
• Snehal
  • Continue interacting up with Biomomentum, Inc. about mechanical testing system tuning features.
  • Complete the structured testing plan for tuning the system for different sample sizes, strain levels and strain rates.
  • Fill in dissection and preparation information for tissue mechanics section for oks008 in the relevant wiki page.
• Robb
  • Conduct post-experiment calibration of pressure sensor used for oks008 testing.
• Tara
  • Provide laxity plots for oks008 in the relevant wiki page.
• Connor
  • Update registration related scripts to transform coordinates on spheres to local bone Optotrak marker coordinate systems.
  • Write a script to read STL files representing surfaces of registration markers and to fit a sphere to the data set.
  • Document progress on registration related scripts on the wiki, at ["Specifications/Registration"].
• Diana
  • Update scripts to finalize reading of CSV files containing contact pressure data collected during patellofemoral joint testing.
  • Implement calculation for calibration, averaging, peak pressure, contact area, contact force in scripts for the analysis of patellofemoral contact pressures.
  • Document progress on scripts for contact pressure analysis on the wiki, at ["Specifications/PressureAnalysis"].
• Omar
  • Update scripts to finalize extraction of time windows of interest in tibiofemoral joint kinematics/kinetics data.
  • Start drafting analysis of reproducibility data (anterior-posterior laxity) collected during tibiofemoral joint testing.
  • Document progress on scripts for pre-processing of joint kinematics/kinetics on the wiki, at ["Specifications/ModelingKinematicsKinetics"].

Ongoing Action Items:

• Ahmet
  • Dissemination of joint mechanics testing data.
  • Detail image segmentation specifications.
  • Prepare flowcharts to describe data flow for pre-processing of joint kinematics/kinetics data.
• Craig
  • Anatomical imaging manuscript.
  • Large-scale analysis of simulation parameters for convergence.
• Snehal
  • Pivot shift manuscript.

  • Cruciate ligament modeling & simulation.

  • Evaluate alternative tissue testing strategy.
• Robb
  • Patellofemoral joint experimentation manuscript.
• Tara
  • Tibiofemoral joint experimentation manuscript.

Notes:

1. Discuss immediate action items from the last meeting.
   • TBD
2. Discuss oks008 testing/ data.
   • TBD
3. Progress on summer internship projects.
   • TBD
4. Decide immediate action items for the next meeting.
   • TBD
5. Other.
   • TBD