[Colloquium] Seminar Announcement: Computation of Imaging-Based Science - TODAY!

[Ninfa Mayorga]

Computation Institute: Computation of Imaging-Based Science

Speaker: Maryellen L. Giger (Radiology & Medical Physics), and Benjamin S. Glick (Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology)
Host: Gordon L. Kindlmann 
Date: November 9, 2011
Time: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue

Computation of Imaging-Based Science

All visitors are welcome to join the next meeting of the Computation of Imaging-Based Science seminar, with two speakers at 2:30 and 4:15. Those not able to attend in person are welcome to watch and listen in via Adobe Connect, at http://anl.adobeconnect.com/cibs/

2:30: Maryellen L. Giger (Radiology & Medical Physics) 'Computer-aided diagnosis and quantitative image analysis of multi-modality breast images'. The role of imaging in breast cancer diagnosis and assessment of therapy is expanding due to developments in both image acquisition and quantitative image analysis. I will (i) review motivations for developing computer vision methods in medical image interpretation, (ii) give examples of computational analyses involved in segmenting and extracting lesion features with which to characterize a tumor and yield image-based biomarkers, (iii) discuss some recent results demonstrating the need for large databases with reliable truth, and (iv) demonstrate some human/computer interfaces for effectively and efficiently conveying the results of the computational analyses to the user.

4:15: Benjamin S. Glick (Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology) '4D Imaging of Secretory Compartments in Yeast'. We developed a method for fast 4D dual-color confocal imaging of yeast secretory compartments, including Golgi cisternae and transitional ER sites. This approach enables us to capture thousands of images with minimal photodamage. However, a remaining challenge is to improve the data processing to extract additional information from the noisy images. Such advances would enable us to image more quickly under conditions that minimize perturbations of cell physiology.

Further information about these and future speakers is available here:
http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/CIBS



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