Algorithms:Core1Visit May06

Logistics

• Dates: May 23-24 2006
• Location: UNC Sitterson Hall, 201 South Columbia, Room SN 115 (Map from hotel)
• Hotel: Courtyard Marriott, 100 Marriott Way, Chapel Hill, NC
  • $119/night discount rate, Discount code: NAMIC meeting
  • Rate guaranteed if reservation is made by April 21st, Afterwards they'll try to honor this rate, but it's not guaranteed.
  • With a meeting discount, it's best to call for reservations (919) 883-0700 rather than making them online.
• Transportation from Airport:
  • Taxi ride 30-35 USD
• There is very limited parking on campus for visitors (due to construction on the visitor lots), so car rental is not necessarily encouraged.
• Restaurant Guide to Chapel Hill downtown (status 1999, needs updating, but most of the restaurants are still around) A google search template for restaurants.

Transportation from Downtown Chapel Hill to Hotel

• In the evening there is public transportation from downtown Chapel Hill to a bustop close to the Courtyard Marriot. The T/G rout bus drives at 7:19pm, 8:54pm, and 10:29pm from downtown Chapel Hill to NC 54 Parking lot, right next to the Marriot (2 minute walk). Bus Details
• Additionally taxi transportation is affordable and located in downtown Chapel Hill: Tar Heel Taxi Inc (919) 933-1255; Airport Taxi (919) 942-4598; Airport & Intown Taxi(919) 942-4492

Questions? Please contact Delphine Bull (bull@cs.unc.edu).

Agenda: Tuesday, May 23

• 8.30 am: Pickup at hotel Marriott and transportation to Sitterson Hall
• 9:00-9:30am Introduction and discussion of agenda (Ross W)

• Segmentation and Shape Analysis - Notes
  • 9:30 am "Enhanced Correspondence and Statistics for Structural Shape Analysis" (Martin S) Slides
  • 10:00am "Building Shape Prior Models for Segmentation" (Killian P) Slides
• 10:30 - 11:00 am Break

• ** 11:00am "A Nonparametric Approach to Shape Correspondence" (Ross W) Slides
  • 11:30am Shape Discussion (Martin and Ross)

• 12:00pm Lunch (Lunch Chapel Hill downtown on your own, 10' walk)

• ** 1:30pm Shape Discussion (cont)

• Functional MRI
  • 2:00pm "Some Introductory Remarks on fMRI" Slides (Polina G)
  • 2:15pm "Spatial Regularization of fMRI activation" Slides (Wanmei Ou)
  • 2:45pm "Open problems in fMRI" Slides(Bruce F)
  • Question to be discussed:
    • Can and should Core 1 be more involved in fMRI?
    • How will NAMIC engage fMRI researchers?

• 3:15pm Publishing in NAMIC
  • Questions to be discussed:
    • What is our status? (E.g. generate an ad hoc list of ongoing projects and plans to publish them.)
    • How can we improve Core 1/Core 3 publishing?

(E.g. generate a list of promising Core 3 projects and potential avenues for publication) What will we do with core 3 for its last year of this generation. What will we do with the next generation of core 3

• 4:00-5:30 Core 2 Interactions Notes
  • "Slicer 3 Update for Core 1" Slides (Steve P)

• Core 2 Discussion
  • Questions to be discussed:
    • What are the ways to interact with Core 2?
    • How should code get transferred/migrated in ITK?
    • How should applications get built?
    • How can we get applications in the hands of users?

• Open Items
  • Registration (intra, inter-subject, sMRI, DTI, tensors, motion correction etc.)

Agenda: Wednesday, May 24

• 8.30 am: Pickup at hotel Marriott and transportation to Sitterson Hall
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging Notes
  • 9:00am "Correspondence in DTI via unbiased atlas-building" (Casey G) Slides
  • 9:30am "Filtering of DW and DT Images" (Tom F) Slides
  • 10:00am "Using MRI to link microstructure and macrostructure" Slides (Bruce F)

• 10:30am Break

• Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Cont).
  • 11:00 am "Finsler Geometry and DTI Tractography" Slides (Allen T)
  • 11:30 am "White Matter Analysis Through Clustering of DTI data" Slides (Polina G)

• 12:00pm Lunch (Lunch Chapel Hill downtown on your own, 10' walk)

• 1:30pm DTI Discussion (Guido and Allen)
  • Questions to be discussed:

• 2:30pm Evaluating NAMIC Core 1
  • Questions to be discussed:
    • How will we evaluate ourselves (at renewal time)?
    • How will this standard sit with our evaluators?
    • How will we fare agains this standard?
    • How can we make sure we succeed?

Topics

• Software needs of the NAMIC toolkit
• Algorithmic issue/needs relevant to Core 3
• Special sessions on Shape Analysis, fMRI, DTI
• Update on Slicer 3
• Metrics for success (to be used in renewal considerations)
• Core 1 input into the NAMIC Kit
• Core 1 contributions to training core
• Planning for Project Week (?)

Attendees

If you are interested in attending this week, please note your name here (in general 2-4 people per Core 1 group)

1. Guido Gerig, UNC
2. Martin Styner, UNC
3. Ipek Oguz, UNC
4. Casey Goodlett, UNC
5. Ross Whitaker, Utah
6. John Melonakos, GT/GE
7. Simon Warfield, HMS
8. Steve Pieper
9. Wanmei Ou, MIT
10. Polina Golland, MIT
11. Allen Tannenbaum, GT
12. Bryce Kim, MIT
13. Sandy Wells, MIT/BWH
14. Kilian Pohl, MIT/BWH
15. Bruce Fischl, MGH
16. Tom Fletcher, Utah
17. Jim Miller, GE Research
18. Dennis Jen, MGH