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** ILS, Inc.
** ILS, Inc.
** Research Triangle Park, NC
** Research Triangle Park, NC


Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on solving real-world research problems and on providing hands-on experience.
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:
Driving research problems to be addressed include:
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* CT/PET image registration
* CT/PET image registration
* Histology reconstruction
* Histology reconstruction


Technologies covered include:
Technologies covered include:
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* ITK's image registration tools, segmentation tools, and derived tools
* 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
* Kitware's [http://www.kitware.com/products/volview.html VolView] and [http://www.paraview.org ParaView] applications


== Agenda ==
== Agenda ==
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** Insight Segmentation
** Insight Segmentation
** Insight Registration
** Insight Registration


== Enroll ==
== Enroll ==


Download enrollment form and survey (coming soon!)


The two-day course will cost $XXX per attendee.
<center> Download enrollment form and survey (coming soon!) </center>
* Attendees will also receive
 
** The Insight Software Guide (over 850 pages with illustrations)
 
** The Visualization Toolkit User’s Guide.
Cost is $XXX per attendee.
** Access to open-source software on the web
In addition to two days of instruction, attendees will receive
* Attendees are expected to bring a high-end laptop computer with wireless connectivity.   
* The Insight Software Guide (over 850 pages with illustrations)
* Space is very limited.  Register early to ensure availability.
* 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.   
 
<center>Space is very limited, so register early to ensure availability.</center>
 


== For more information contact ==
== For more information contact ==

Revision as of 17:48, 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 and survey (coming soon!)


Cost is $XXX per attendee. In addition to two days of instruction, attendees will 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, so 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.
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