[Colloquium] Talk by Gordon Kindlmann, Harvard University on Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Nita Yack
nitayack at uchicago.edu
Thu Feb 7 14:12:01 CST 2008
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - TALK
SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Place: Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th St.
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Speaker: Gordon Kindlmann
From: Harvard University
Web page: http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~gk/
Title: Analysis and Visualization of Diffusion Imaging Data
Abstract: Computational tools of image analysis and scientific
visualization are increasingly used in clinical applications of
advanced medical imaging modalities, such as diffusion MRI, which can
probe living tissue's directional microstructure. In this talk, I
will describe analysis and visualization methods that I have developed
in response to current challenges in neurosurgical planning and
neuroscientific quantitative study of psychiatric disorders. A
central theme is that principles of computer vision play an important
role in extracting fundamental image structure and minimizing
parameter tweaking, which is important for making research software
reliable, and its findings reproducible. For example, the "anisotropy
crease" method takes the technique of ridge and valley analysis from
gray-scale image analysis, and adapts and applies it to a particular
parameter of the diffusion tensor, termed anisotropy, that measures
the level of microstructural organization, in order to delineate the
major white matter structures of the brain. Another theme is that
scientific visualization can effectively bridge otherwise disparate
research areas of image acquisition, its computational analysis, and
its scientific application. I will conclude with some ideas on how
collaborative biomedicine will increasingly depend on innovations in
computationally efficient tools for seeing and understanding complex
imaging data.
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Host: Ian Foster
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Nita
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Nita Yack
Departmental Administrator
Computer Science Department
1100 E. 58th Street - Room 151
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-6019
(773) 702-8487 FAX
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their
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