2008 Core 1 Core 3 mtg

• Dates: May 22-23. Starts morning of May 22 and finishes afternoon of May 23.
• Location: Warnock Engineering Building, University of Utah (Directions).

• Logistics:
  • Hotel: Recommended Hotel Monaco ((801) 595-0000, Web page). Ask for the University rate. Let us know if for some reason you are not able to get that rate.
  • A cheaper hotel option is the University Guest House, which is right on campus.
  • Travel: Taxi is probably the best way to get around. Fares are roughly: Airport/Hotel-$15.00, Hotel/University-$10.00.

• Attendees:
  • Ross Whitaker
  • Tom Fletcher
  • Guido Gerig
  • Marcel Prastawa
  • Sylvain Gouttard
  • Casey Goodlett
  • Martin Styner
  • John Melonakos
  • Yi Gao
  • H Jeremy Bockholt
  • Carl-Fredrik Westin
  • Sylvain Bouix
  • Serdar Balci
  • Marek Kubicki
  • Polina Golland
  • Tamar Riklin Raviv
  • Koen Van Leemput
  • David Gobbi
  • Siddharth Vikal
  • Rachel Smith

Agenda

• Introduction (R. Whitaker, 20 mins)
  • People attending
  • Goals of the meeting
  • Discussions refinement of agenda
  • 2007 Core 1 highlights

• Core 3 Presentations
  • (Format: Very short intro to goals, challenge problem, progress, other open problems)
  • JHU/Queens
  • B&W/Harvard
  • UNC
  • Mind

• Core 1 Technical Emphasis Areas
  • (Format: One speaker tries to cover all of Core 1/2 work in each area. Describe goals, technologies, progress)
  • Shape Analysis (M. Styner)
  • DTI (G. Gerig)
  • Segmentation (J. Melonakos / Y. Gao)
  • Registration (P. Golland)

• Breakout/technical sessions (Format: interesting problems, needs in the toolkit, technologies for DBPs)
  • Registration and atlases (cross cutting toolkit needs and DBPs)
  • Future DTI processing (toolkit and future technologies)
  • Integrating different modalities (needs, challenges and technologies)

• Planning for the future
  • Core 1 Role in NAMIC
    • Relationships to Cores 2-3
    • Contributions to Cores 4-6
  • NAMIC Renewal
    • Timing of the renewal and planning for Core 1 components
    • How to assess/present our progress and contributions
    • Logistics of how we will operate
    • Initial discussions of
      • Big picture (Core 1 and others)
      • How the pieces fit together
    • The next round of DBPs
      • Procedure (approve or discuss)
      • Strategy (technical/medical domains)