NIH-BISTI Center for Grid-Enabled Medical Image Analysis (GEMIAC)

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Educational Activities

Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar for Acquisition, Processing, and Management of Biomedical Imaging Data (begun March 2004, quarterly)

Departments and program served include: Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Biophysics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Neurology, Radiology, Ohio Supercomputing Center, Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Dayton Department of Electrical Engineering. Seminars are recorded with live audience and available on password-protected website for internet access as Quicktime movies.

Graduate Specialization in Acquisition, Processing, and Management of Biomedical Imaging Data (planned for 2004)

This specialization would allow students in Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program, Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering to receive degree notation of the concentration in coursework related to the fields of this grant.

Workshop on Image Analysis (planned for 2004/2005)

The Center is in the planning phase for a workshop devoted to image analysis, with emphasis on virtual microscopy application. The workshop will be held in Columbus in late 2004 or early 2005. The workshop will present ongoing work and develop potential future applications and projects.

Presentations directly resulting from GEMIAC monies

J. D. Fleig, B. Clymer, T. Kurc and J. Saltz, "Performance review of distributed medical image processing," Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Midwest 2003 Regional Conference, Dennison, OH, Oct. 2003.

Theses and Dissertations directly resulting from GEMIAC monies

John David Fleig: MS Electrical Engineering and MS Computer and Information Science (dual degree), March 2004, Thesis title: Distributed DCEMRI Medical Image Processing Using Haralick Texture Analysis

Brent Woods, BSECE Honors Thesis, March 2004, Thesis title : 4-D Haralick Texture Analysis of DCE-MRI Images using Distributed Computing, (Journal manuscript combining this and JD Fleig to be submitted Aug 2004)

Theses and Dissertations in progress related to GEMIAC

Mehmet Kale, MS Electrical Engineering, expected August 2004, topic: Joint statistical assessment of dynamic contrast enhancement MRI of 3 random variable functional parameters. (Journal manuscript to be submitted Aug 2004)

Hee Chun, PhD in Electrical Engineering, expect Jun 2006, topic: data fusion and rendering interface for multimodality anatomic and functional imaging.

Brent Woods, MS Electrical Engineering, expected June 2005, topic: use of 4-D co-occurrence texture analysis for computer assisted diagnosic of tumors.

Chester A. Showalter, MS Electrical Engineering, expected August 2004, topic: Co-occurrence texture statistic of trabelucar bone images at clinic computed tomography resolution for prediction of mechanical strength.

Nassar Kashou: MS Electrical Engineering, expected June 2004, topic: Registering longitudinal studies of 3-D microscopic computed tomography images with mutual information.

Phillip Barnes (NIH/NCI F-31 awarded grant): expected December 2009, Human Brain Microvessel Segmentation in 8 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging.