• RecurringMeetings
• 2016-05-31

Recurring Meeting of Cleveland Clinic Core Team

Date: May 31, 2016

Time: 10:30 AM EST

Means: In person meeting

Attendees:

1. Ahmet Erdemir
2. Snehal Chokhandre
3. Robb Colbrunn
4. Tara Bonner
5. Jason Halloran (Cleveland State University)
6. Will Zaylor

Agenda:

1. Discuss immediate action items from the last meeting.
2. Discuss progress of tissue testing protocol evaluation.
3. Decide immediate action items for the next meeting.
4. Other.

Immediate Action Items:

• Ahmet
  • Review the draft of anatomical imaging manuscript.
  • Review the draft of tibiofemoral joint testing manuscript.
  • Generate raw surfaces for oks001 tissue geometries.
• Snehal
  • Continue providing quantitative information in conclusions sections of tissue testing evaluation page.
  • Provide data to Robb illustrating noise in Mach-1 system.
• Robb
  • Continue working on scripts to generate of aggregated contact pressure plots for patellofemoral joint manuscript.
  • Contact Martin Garon from Biomomentum, Inc. to discuss machine noise.
• All
  • Check specification for segmentation and decide upon tissue types to segment.

Notes:

1. Discuss immediate action items from the last meeting.

   • Per Ahmet's request, the group discussed scheduling of relevant work for upcoming year instead of action items. These discussions are summarized below for the agenda item Other.

2. Discuss progress of tissue testing protocol evaluation.

   • Per Ahmet's request, the group discussed scheduling of relevant work for upcoming year, see notes for the agenda item Other.

3. Decide immediate action items for the next meeting.
   • See Immediate Action Items above.
4. Other.
   • Ahmet summarized the priorities for the last year of the current funding period of Open Knee(s). These include segmentation, geometry generation, meshing and model generation, completion of tissue testing and relevant dissemination. Additional activities will include experimenting with the cloud computing by porting Open Knee(s) - Generation 1 model for web-based simulations.
   • Ahmet asked for timelines for completion of various activities:
     • For data manuscripts, Ahmet will read and review papers by July 10, 2016. In following, the revised drafts should be prepared by contributing authors by August 12, 2016. Submissions are aimed for the month of August 2016.
     • Tissue testing should start by July 31, 2016. All issues should be resolved and specifications should be finalized. The team needs to contact Martin Garon of Biomomentum Inc. to resolve noise issues and machine locking for 150 gr load transducer. Snehal will iron out processing of the data, including filtering. With an average testing rate of one knee per month, all the data should be collected by April 2016.
     • It is anticipated that all the members of the project will be involved with segmentation. At a rate of one specimen per month, it is expected that the segmentation work would be completed by March 2016. The team needs to decide workload distribution. One option is someone picking up the segmentation for the whole specimen. The other is someone picking up segmentation of certain tissue types. In either case, the person who does the segmentation should also segment representative tissue types from oks001 to understand uncertainties associated with the workflow. A specification for quality assurance of segmentation is needed. All personnel will evaluate the existing segmentation specifications to decide upon which knees or tissue types they would like to segment.
     • Ahmet recommended that these three activities should be included in the agenda for ongoing discussions.
   • Connor Lough will be starting his summer internship next week. He will primarily work on segmentation, i.e., segmenting oks001 again and moving on to other knees.
   • Will will be giving a lecture on Python programming this Friday. It is scheduled for 9 AM - 11 AM in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Open Knee(s) team is encouraged to attend.