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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Hands-on Workshop on</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Summary: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) is a widely used, open-source, cross-platform software toolkit that provides an 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 multi-dimensional data. Luis Ibanez, Matt McCormick, and Xiaoxiao Liu from Kitware, Inc. will conduct a hands-on workshop (see </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wHYa5zbq7pEFpRXQPOUNHk-xVYKZCRn-SfzK4pYQ5FE/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">agenda</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) on ITK (version 4). The interactive portion of this workshop will include an introduction to </span><a href="http://www.itk.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> ITK v4</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and</span><a href="http://www.simpleitk.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Simple ITK</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, with hands-on exercises on advanced image filtering, segmentation, and registration techniques. A free USB thumb drive will be provided with all necessary software. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tuesday, May 28th, 10am-5pm</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Where:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> FB-007, Sitterson Hall, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Audience:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> This workshop is appropriate for all scientific programmers, especially image analysts, who are interested in learning about ITK and ways to use it in their work.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cost & registration: Free</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Advance registration requested to help us make better arrangements. Please fill in </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApZLvvwNnOBIdEVtekdSU095OE9XcmNnLUs1R0pFaVE&usp=sharing" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">this form</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or email </span><a href="mailto:xiaoxiao.liu@kitware.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">xiaoxiao.liu@kitware.com</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by May 26th if you plan to attend the workshop. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Pizza will be provided during lunch hour.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What to bring:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Bring a laptop with VirtualBox installed (</span><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.virtualbox.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) if you plan to attend the hands-on activities.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sponsored by:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The National Institutes of Health-National Library of Medicine (NIH-NLM), Kitware, Inc.</span></p>
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</div></b></div><b>Xiaoxiao Liu</b>, Ph.D.<div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">R & D Engineer</span></font></div><div><div><a href="http://www.kitware.com/" target="_blank">Kitware Inc</a>.</div>
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