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= 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 ([http://www.itk.org ITK])
* The Visualization Toolkit ([http://www.vtk.org VTK])
* ITK's image registration tools, segmentation tools, and derived tools
* Kitware's [http://www.kitware.com/products/volview.html VolView] and [http://www.paraview.org 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.