Dzhoshkun Shakir, Tom Doel: Feb 2015

1. Meeting with Gareth Askey (Diagnostic Radiographer/Imaging Systems Deputy Manager) at UCLH
   • David Atkinson participated in the meeting as well, as he has previous experience with data from UCLH
   • Discussed and identified possible ways of uploading data from UCLH PACS
   • Gareth could add a hook to the PACS viewer, so that our clinical fellow will have a “Transmit to GIFT-Cloud” option in the menu
2. GIFT-Cloud extension of XNAT
   • Started implementing the core functionality required for the automated simultaneous upload of multiple datasets with subject recognition
   • Discussed about a unified security manager scheme for central authorisation
   • Started investigating possible ways of testing the units and the integration thereof
3. GIFT-Cloud uploader application
   • Initial investigation and planning
   • Reviewed the XNAT uploader applet, as well as the DicomCleaner codebases as part of the initial investigation
4. Meeting with Dan Marcus
   • Dan Marcus leads the Neuroinformatics Research Group (NRG) at Washington University, which are the main developers of XNAT
   • We presented our current development efforts related to XNAT, as well as our future agenda. We agreed in principle to keep in touch for contributing back to the XNAT codebase
5. Patient and Public Advisory Group (PPAG) meeting
   • Delivered a talk about the current status of R&D within GIFT-Surg to representatives of various charities and organisations related to the congenital anomalies GIFT-Surg aims to address
   • In particular, we presented our efforts for data sharing and collaboration with an emphasis on the security aspects
   • Received generally very positive feedback from the representatives. In particular, they are interested in knowing what happens with patient data, e.g.
     • any further findings based on our novel methods ?
     • what impact those data has had on the management of those anomalies ?
6. Approval for retrospective MRI data
   • We have approval from Dominic Heaney (Caldicott Guardian) and Michael Abtar (Information Governance) for a large number of retrospective MRI data