The SCI Institute Simulation Scientific Computing Visualization National

The SCI Institute Simulation & Scientific Computing Visualization National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http: //na-mic. org Problem Solving Enviroments & Tools Image Analysis

SCI and Image Processing • SCI – ~110 people – $10 M/year • NIH, DOE, NSF, DARPA, Industry – 14 faculty National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http: //na-mic. org • Image processing – ~12 people – $1 M/year • NIH, NSF, GE, Exxon-Mobil – 4 Faculty

Image Processing & Projects • NIH: NCRR - CIBC * – Access to ITK tools through SCIRun – Primary collaborators: Cappechi, Ellisman • NIH/NSF: Serial section analysis for neuron tacking & reconstruction * – Marc Laboratory • NSF: Geometric tools for processing biological volumes * • GE: 3 D Tomography from C-Arm data * • Exxon-Mobil: Seismic data analysis *ITK as primary development platform National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http: //na-mic. org

Recent Scientific Results • Nonparametric neighborhood statistics – Image denoising: CVPR 2005, PAMI 2005 – Segmentation: MICCAI 2005, ECCV (pending), Med. IA (prep) • Dynamic particle systems for shape sampling – SMI 2005 • Autocalibration of cone-beam data – ISBI (pending) • Riemannian metrics for shape comparisons/statistics – ECCV (pending) • Fast, parallel solutions to the Eikonal equation – Alternatives to fast marching National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http: //na-mic. org