User talk:Platel

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Information on Bram Platel & TU/e

About Image Analysis at the Eindhoven University of Technology

Bio and Publication List of Bram Platel

Image Guided Surgery Group

Multivalued Image Analysis & Visualization

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Possible Topics of Collaboration

Deep Brain Stimulation (I'm meeting Benoit Dawant 14-18 April at Vanderbilt University to talk about their DBS research)

Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Surgical Planning / Intra-Operative Guidance for Brain Tumor Resection (Interested to see Slicer's capabilities. We have a Medtronic Polestar N20, we would like to use pre-operative data: fMRI, DTI and register this with the Polestar data during the surgery.)

Integration of Medtronic's StealthLink into Slicer (OpenIGT Link) (I'm meeting Leslie Holton, StealthLink Coordinator of Medtronic on the 22nd of April)

GPU Visualization, Depth Peeling (Nvidia's CUDA)

Scanner Deformation Analysis & Correction

Student Exchange Possibilities

Noby Hata is willing to come and give a colloquium/lecture

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Main Contact

Nobuhiko (Noby) Hata

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Interesting Contacts

Carl-Fredrik Westin

Director, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging (LMI) Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Keep in Mind MICCAI 2008 Tutorial: Diffusion MRI: Technology trends and unsolved problems

Interesting Publications:

A Mathematical Framework for Incorporating Anatomical Knowledge in DT-MRI analysis Mahnaz Maddah, Lilla Zöllei, W. Eric L. Grimson, Carl-Fredrik Westin, William M. Wells Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Paris, France 2008

... The whole publication list is very interesting especially for Luc Florack and Remco Duits at the "Scale and Orientation" group of the TU/e ...

Stephen Whalen

Research Assistant Golby Lab Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Neurosurgery

Interesting Publications:

Role of pre- and intraoperative imaging and neuronavigation in neurosurgery. Expert Rev Med Devices. 2008 Jan;5(1):65-73.

Tract-based morphometry. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2007;10(Pt 2):161-8

Non-rigid alignment of pre-operative MRI, fMRI, and DT-MRI with intra-operative MRI for enhanced visualization and navigation in image-guided neurosurgery. Neuroimage. 2007 Apr 1;35(2):609-24. Epub 2006 Dec 23.

Non-rigid alignment of preoperative MRI, fMRI and DT-MRI with intraoperative MRI to enhance visualization and navigation in image-guided neurosurgery. Neuroimage, 2007 Apr 1;35(2):609-624.

Robust nonrigid registration to capture brain shift from intraoperative MRI. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2005 Nov;24(11):1417-27.

William M. Wells III, (aka Sandy Wells)

Associate Professor Department of Radiology Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

My work has focused primarily on the analysis of structural and functional MRI. Areas of research include the segmentation and registration of MRI, with some emphasis on applications in image-guided surgery. The figure on the upper right illustrates the white matter surface of a brain that was segmented from MRI using Adaptive Segmentation of MRI (the "EM Segmenter") . My research in medical image registration concerns the use of Mutual Information as a criterion for image fusion. This approach has become the de-facto standard for multi-modality problems. Implementations of this method are available in 3D Slicer, our open-source platform for medical image analysis, and in ITK, an NIH sponsored segmentation and registration library.

Interesting Publications:

A Bayesian Model for Joint Segmentation and Registration. Pohl K, Fisher J, Grimson WEL, Kikinis R, Wells W. Neuroimage (to appear)

An Integrated Visualization System for Surgical Planning and Guidance Using Image Fusion and an Open MR. Gering D, Nabavi A, Kikinis R, Hata N, O'Donnell L, Grimson E, Jolesz F, Black P, Wells WM. JMRI 2001; 13:967-975

Benjamin Grauer

Have a look at 2008 Winter Project Week VolumeRendering

Junichi Tokuda

Junichi Tokuda is a Research Fellow of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received a B.S in Engineering in 2002, a M.S. in Information Science and Technology in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology in 2007, from The University of Tokyo, Japan. His main research interest is MRI guided therapy including MR pulse sequence, navigation software, MRI-compatible robot and integration of these technologies for operating environment. He has been working on this area since 2001, and has broad experience in developing software and devices for these applications. For example, the software to assist MRI-guided microwave coagulation therapy of liver tumor, which he developed at Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan, has already been used in more than 100 clinical cases. He joined the Image Guided Therapy Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital since April 2007, and continues to work on MR-guided therapy.

Haiying Liu

Talk about: Slicer, OpenIGT Link, tutorial, tools, engineering