Designed especially for neurobiologists, FluoRender is an interactive tool for multi-channel fluorescence microscopy data visualization and analysis.
Deep brain stimulation
BrainStimulator is a set of networks that are used in SCIRun to perform simulations of brain stimulation such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and magnetic transcranial stimulation (TMS).
Developing software tools for science has always been a central vision of the SCI Institute.

Biomedical Computing

Biomedical computing combines the diagnostic and investigative aspects of biology and medical science with the power and problem-solving capabilities of modern computing. Computers are used to accelerate research learning, simulate patient behavior and visualize complex biological models.


chris

Chris Johnson

Inverse Problems
Computational Electrophysiology
rob

Rob MacLeod

ECG Imaging
Cardiac Disease
Computational Electrophysiology
jeff

Jeff Weiss

Computational Biomechanics
orly

Orly Alter

Computational Biology
bidone

Tamara Bidone

Computational Models
Simulations of Biological Systems
Multi-Physics Models of Cancer Cells

amir

Amir Arzani

Cardiovascular biomechanics
Biotransport
Scientific machine learning

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Publications in Biomedical Computing:


Visual Analysis of Bioelectric Fields
X. Tricoche, R.S. MacLeod, C.R. Johnson. In Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences, Mathematics and Visualization, Springer-Verlag, pp. 205--220. 2008.



CRA-NIH Computing Research Challenges in Biomedicine Workshop Recommendations
D. Reed, C.R. Johnson. Note: Computing Research Association (CRA), 2007.



A Tensor Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition for Integrative Analysis of DNA Microarray Data From Different Studies,
L. Omberg, G.H. Golub, O. Alter. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 104, No. 47, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 18371–-18376. November, 2007.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709146104



Genomic Signal Processing: From Matrix Algebra to Genetic Networks
O. Alter. In Microarray Data Analysis: Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 377, Edited by M.J. Korenberg, Humana Press, Totowa, pp. 17--59. 2007.
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-390-5_2



BioMesh3D: A Meshing Pipeline for Biomedical Models
SCI Institute Technical Report, M. Callahan, M.J. Cole, J.F. Shepherd, J.G. Stinstra, C.R. Johnson. No. UUSCI-2007-009, University of Utah, 2007.



Hexahedral Mesh Generation for Biomedical Models in SCIRun
SCI Institute Technical Report, J.F. Shepherd, C.R. Johnson. No. UUSCI-2007-008, University of Utah, 2007.



A Meshing Pipeline for Biomedical Computing
M. Callahan, M.J. Cole, J.F. Shepherd, J.G. Stinstra, C.R. Johnson. In Engineering with Computers, Special Issue on Computational Bioengineering, pp. (in press). 2007.



Discovery of Principles of Nature from Mathematical Modeling of DNA Microarray Data
O. Alter. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 103, No. 44, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 16063--16064. October, 2006.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607650103



Singular Value Decomposition of Genome-Scale mRNA Lengths Distribution Reveals Asymmetry in RNA Gel Electrophoresis Band Broadening,
O. Alter, G. H. Golub. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 103, No. 32, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 11828--11833. July, 2006.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604756103



Biomedical Computing and Visualization
C.R. Johnson, D.M. Weinstein. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2006): Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Hobart, Australia, Vol. 48, Edited by Vladimir Estivill-Castro and Gill Dobbie, pp. 3-10. 2006.



Computational Methods and Software for Bioelectric Field Problems
C.R. Johnson. In Biomedical Engineering Handbook, 2nd Edition, Vol. 1, Ch. 23, Edited by J.D. Bronzino, CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 1--23. 2006.



Controlled Support MEG Imaging
S. Nagarajan, O. Portniaguine, D. Hwang, C.R. Johnson, K. Sekihara. In NeuroImage, Vol. 15;33, No. 3, pp. 878--885. 2006.



Reconstructing the Pathways of a Cellular System from Genome-Scale Signals by Using Matrix and Tensor Computations,
O. Alter, G.H. Golub. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 102, No. 49, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 17559--17564. November, 2005.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509033102



Influence of Stochastic Organ Conductivity in 2D ECG Forward Modeling: A Stochastic Finite Element Study
S.E. Geneser, S. Choe, R.M. Kirby, R.S. MacLeod. In Proceedings of The Joint Meeting of The 5th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism and The 5th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging within the Human Brain and Heart, pp. 5528--5531. 2005.



Computational Simulation of Penetrating Trauma in Biological Soft Tissues Using the Material Point Method
I. Ionescu, J. Guilkey, M. Berzins, R.M. Kirby, J.A. Weiss. In Proceedings, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, Vol. 13, Edited by James D Westwood et al., IOS Press, pp. 213--218. 2005.
ISBN: 1-58603-498-7



Influence of Local and Remote White Matter Conductivity Anisotropy for a Thalamic Source on EEG/MEG Field and Return Current Computation
C. H. Wolters, A. Anwander, X. Tricoche, S. Lew, C.R. Johnson. In Int.Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 203--206. 2005.



Advanced Modeling and Visualization of Cardiothoracic Electrical Fields
F. Sachse, M. Cole, R.M. Kirby, X. Tricoche, C.R. Johnson. In Proceedings of 13th Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR13), 2005.



Novel Genome-Scale Correlation Between DNA Replication and RNA Transcription During the Cell Cycle in Yeast is Predicted by Data-Driven Models
O. Alter, G.H. Golub, P.O. Brown, D. Botstein. In Proceedings of the Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium on the Cell Cycle, Chromosomes and Cancer, Vol. 15, Edited by M.P. Deutscher and S. Black and P.E. Boehmer and G. D'Urso and T. Fletcher and F. Huijing and A. Marshall and B. Pulverer and B. Renault and J.D. Rosenblatt and J.M. Slingerland and W.J. Whelan, 2004.



Integrative Analysis of Genome-Scale Data by Using Pseudoinverse Projection Predicts Novel Correlation Between DNA Replication and RNA Transcription,
O. Alter, G.H. Golub. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 101, No. 47, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 16577--16582. November, 2004.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406767101



Biomedical Computing and Visualization Software Environments
C.R. Johnson, R.S. MacLeod, S.G. Parker, D.M. Weinstein. In Comm. ACM, Vol. 47, No. 11, pp. 64--71. 2004.