2007 ILS Course

From KitwarePublic
Revision as of 17:23, 1 December 2006 by Aylward (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigationJump to search

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.

Schedule

  • Tentative data
    • February 15 and 16, 2007
  • Location
    • ILS, Inc.
    • Research Triangle Park, NC
  • For more information contact
    • Jean-Philippe Guyon
    • ILS, Inc.
    • (919) 281-1110
    • jguyon@ils-inc.com

Course overview

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

Attendees are expected to bring a high-end laptop computer with wireless connectivity. They will receive a CD of software as well as published copies of the Insight Software Guide (over 850 pages with illustrations) and the Visualization Toolkit User’s Guide.

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

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.