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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi everyone:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Like most of us who write stuff, Patrick probably
doesn’t think this is that good, but I think he did an excellent job
putting together this first draft of the SPIE paper as attached.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I want to work on this some more as I
really want to make it sharp and hand out copies at the demo on Feb 10<sup>th</sup>
(thank goodness I am the editor of the proceedings so we have some more grace
time still;) but this is a great start<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In particular, I found the use of the state
machine, the example application, and the discussion very interesting<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I invite you to curb my exuberance (go
ahead and look that word up!) but I consider the transition from our struggles
with the state machine in October to the current state of the code and this
example application to be nothing short of spectacular <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I realize we have a long way to go but I
believe the project does have huge potential and we need to keep up the
momentum (I will fill you in on my latest conversations with NIH officials on
the tcon)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Kevin Cleary,
Ph.D.
Work phone: 202-687-8253<br>
Associate
Professor
Work fax: 202-784-3479<br>
Deputy Director <br>
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Imaging Science and Information Systems (<st1:place w:st="on">ISIS</st1:place>)
Center<br>
Department of
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Pager: 202-901-2033<br>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
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title="mailto:cleary@georgetown.edu"><font size=2 face="Courier New"
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>-------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Patrick Cheng
[mailto:cheng@isis.georgetown.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 02, 2006
12:01 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Kevin Cleary<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> SPIE paper</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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