2007 ILS Course

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.

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.

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

Enroll

• Download Enrollment Form (coming soon!)
  • Two-day course
  • Includes books and access to software over the web
  • $XXX per attendee
  • 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

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.