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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Free Hands-on Workshop<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">The Insight Open-source Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Summary: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">ITK is a widely used free and open-source, cross-platform software toolkit that provides an</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">extensive suite of software tools for biomedical image analysis, especially segmentation and registration. Developed using extreme programming methodologies, ITK employs leading-edge algorithms for registering and segmenting multidimensional data.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Matt McCormick from Kitware, Inc. will conduct a hands-on workshop on ITK at the University of Houston. The interactive portion of this workshop will include an introduction to ITK and Simple ITK, with hands-on exercises on advanced image filtering, segmentation, and registration. A free USB thumb drive</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">will be provided with all necessary software.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">When:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "> Wednesday, May 15th, 10am-5pm. The first hour (10am – 11am) will provide an ITK overview for those who cannot attend the whole workshop. The rest of the workshop will be a hands-on learning experience.<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Where:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "> The University of Houston, Room 104 of the Classroom and Business Building (CBB). Please contact Loretta Herbek (<a href="mailto:LHerbek@Central.UH.EDU" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">LHerbek@Central.UH.EDU</a>, <a href="tel:713-743-4435" value="+17137434435" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">713-743-4435</a>) if you need directions.<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Audience:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "> This workshop is appropriate for scientific programmers, especially image analysts, who are interested in learning about ITK and ways to use it in their work.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Cost & registration: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Free. Advance registration requested to help us make better arrangements. Please email Badri Roysam at </span><a href="mailto:broysam@uh.edu" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">broysam@uh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">What to bring:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "> Bring a laptop with VirtualBox installed (</span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.virtualbox.org</a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">) if you plan to attend the hands-on activities.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Sponsored by:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "> The National Institutes of Health-National Library of Medicine (NIH-NLM), Kitware, Inc., and the FARSIGHT team at the University of Houston (</span><a href="http://www.farsight-toolkit.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">www.farsight-toolkit.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">)</span></p></div></body></html>