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SCIx 2016: November 16th

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SCI Institute Technical Exchange (SCI X) was created to strengthen the interactions between the SCI Institute and other academic researchers, and also those companies conducting or wishing to conduct research with the University and inspire them to increase their collaborative efforts in research and new product development. SCI X is intended to provide its guests […]

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Fluorender Features on Cover of Disease Models and Mechanisms

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An image of the ulnar-mammary syndrome, visualized with FluoRender, was chosen for the cover of Disease Models and Mechanisms. CIBC Collaborator, Gabrielle Kardon’s article can be found here in it’s entirety. Development of a subset of forelimb muscles and their attachment sites requires the ulnar-mammary syndrome gene Tbx3. Mary P. Colasanto, Shai Eyal, Payam Mohassel, […]

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Awards at MICCAI and IEEE VIS 2016

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With fall conferences in full swing, the SCI Institute and our alumni had an amazing showing. Alex Bigelow and SCI alumnus Roni Choudhury, who, along with Jeff Baumes from Kitware received the Visualization in Practice Best Paper Award at the IEEE Visualization Conference for their paper: Resonant Laboratory and Candela: Spreading your Visualization Ideas to the […]

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Fluorender 2.20 Released

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We are excited to announce the latest release of FluoRender, version 2.20, which incorporates improvements, bug fixes, and new features. You can download FluoRender here New Features: Clustering algorithms. Three clustering algorithms for segmentation are added: expectation-maximization on Gaussian mixture, DBSCAN, and k-means. Users can use these methods in the “Component” window. Improved tracking algorithms. […]

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Alex Lex, Bei Wang Phillips, and Chris Johnson present at the Future in Review Conference

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Alex Lex, Bei Wang Phillips, and Chris Johnson were chosen to present at the Future in Review Conference held at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah. What is Future in Review? Hosted by Mark Anderson, founder and publisher of the Strategic News Service™, the Future in Review® (FiRe) conference exposes world experts and participants […]

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Visualizing the Universe

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Utah engineers co-developing space simulation software for planetariums and home computers. Sept. 7, 2016 – If space is the final frontier, OpenSpace could become the final frontier in space simulation software. Computer scientists from the University of Utah will be working with researchers from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and the American Museum […]

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Topological Data Analysis for Large Network Visualization

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PI and Co-PIs Bei Wang (PI) Assistant Professor School of Computing and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute University of Utah beiwang AT sci.utah.edu http://www.sci.utah.edu/~beiwang Carlos Scheidegger (Co-PI) Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Arizona cscheid AT email.arizona.edu https://cscheid.net/ Paul Rosen (Co-PI) Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida prosen AT […]

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Fluorender 2.19.4 Available

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We are excited to announce the latest release of FluoRender, version 2.19.4, which incorporates improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Download FluoRender In this release, we mainly improved the usability of a series of functions for 4D analysis, including the component analyzer, 4D scripts, paint brush tools, and format supports. We have also made a […]

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Introduction to Image-Based Modeling

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Sponsored by the R. Harold Burton Foundation Over the course of four weeks, students from West High School and Skyline High School and a homeschooled junior year student were given an introduction to image-based modeling (IBM) as part of the SCI Institute Summer Internship. This course, which is given to undergraduate students during the academic […]

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