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Driving Biological Problems (2007 - 2010)

	Contrasting Tractography Measures This project represents a new initiative to build upon a shared vision among Cores 1, 3 and 5 that the field of medical image analysis would be well served by work in the area of validation, calibration and assessment of reliability in DW-MRI image analysis. More... New: Contrasting Tractography Methods Conference, Santa Fe, October 1-2, 2007.
	Brachytherapy Needle Positioning Robot Integration The Queen’s/Hopkins team is developing novel devices and procedures for cancer interventions, including biopsy and therapies. Our goal for the programming week is to design and start implementing software for the new MRI Brachytherapy needle positioning robot. More... New: Meeting at JHU on July 17-19, 2007.
	Brain Lesion Analysis in Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Our goal is to automatically, or with little or no manual human rater input, accurately tissue classify our example lupus data-set into gray, white, csf, and lesion classes. New: Participants in the Summer 2007 NA-MIC Project Week.
	Cortical Thickness for Autism Our goal is to begin a longitudinal study of early brain development by cortical thickness in autistic children and controls (2 years with follow-up at 4 years). We want to be able to make statistical group comparisons. More... New: Participation in the NA-MIC Summer 2007 Project Week.

fMRI Analysis

Other Projects

Numerical Recipies Replacement Our objective is to replace algorithms using the proprietary Numerical Recipes for C source base in FreeSurfer in the efforts to open-source FreeSurfer. This project has been completed through the use of the open source packages VXL (VNL) and Cephes. This includes the complete replacement of all Numerical Recipes in C code, and the implementation of a battery of unit tests for each replaced function. Currently the open source release is at a beta stage, and 25 beta releases of the source have been made. We anticipate a complete open source release in first quarter 2008. More... New: Completed