[Colloquium] Talk by Gordon Kindlmann, Harvard University - Today

[Nita Yack]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their  
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