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= Image Analysis for Medical Research =
= Image Analysis for Medical Research =


This course introduces attendees to several open-source, freely available toolkits and applications for pre-clinical medical image analysis and visualization.
This course introduces attendees to open-source, freely available toolkits and applications for pre-clinical medical image analysis and visualization.





Revision as of 17:44, 1 December 2006

Image Analysis for Medical Research

This course introduces attendees to open-source, freely available toolkits and applications for pre-clinical medical image analysis and visualization.


Course overview

  • Tentative data
    • February 15 and 16, 2007
  • Location
    • ILS, Inc.
    • Research Triangle Park, NC

Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on solving real-world research problems and on providing hands-on experience.

Driving research problems to be addressed include:

  • Small animal image analysis
  • Tumor volume estimation and tracking
  • CT/PET image registration
  • Histology reconstruction

Technologies covered include:

  • CT, MR, PET image processing
  • Web-based image collection, distribution, and archiving.
  • The Insight Toolkit for medical image segmentation and registration (ITK)
  • The Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
  • ITK's image registration tools, segmentation tools, and derived tools
  • Kitware's VolView and ParaView applications

Agenda

The following agenda is tentative. A short survey is part of the enrollment form, and your answers will influence the final agenda.

  • Day 1 (8:00am - 5:00pm)
    • Introduction to ILS and Kitware
    • Open-source challenges and opportunities in medical image analysis
    • Medical image data
      • CT, MR, PET, etc.
    • Trends in medical image analysis
    • Web-based image archives
    • Applications for image analysis
      • VolView, ParaView, Vetot, Snap, ImageRegTool
    • An intro to ITK Programming
  • Day 2 (8:00am - 2:00pm)
    • Open-source resources for medical image analysis
    • Dashboards and CMake
    • Insight Segmentation
    • Insight Registration

Enroll

Download Enrollment Form (coming soon!)

  • Two-day course
  • $XXX per attendee
  • Attendees will also receive
    • The Insight Software Guide (over 850 pages with illustrations)
    • The Visualization Toolkit User’s Guide.
    • Access to open-source software on the web
  • Attendees are expected to bring a high-end laptop computer with wireless connectivity.
  • Space is very limited. Register early to ensure availability.

For more information contact

Jean-Philippe Guyon

ILS, Inc.

(919) 281-1110

jguyon@ils-inc.com


Instructors

  • Stephen R. Aylward, Ph.D., is Chief Medical Scientist at Kitware, Inc. He also serves as President of the Insight Software Consortium, a non-profit organization that promotes open-source software for medical image analysis. Dr. Aylward was a tenured Associate Professor of Radiology, Computer Science, and Surgery at UNC prior to joining Kitware.
  • Juliien Jomier is Staff Research Scientist at Kitware, Inc. and a lead developer of ITK.
  • Jean-Philippe Guyon is lead image analysis scientist at ILS, Inc. He is also a contributor to ITK and VTK.