CIBC and ImageVis3D Mobile Recognized in List of Important Events in NCRR History
Among the list of important events in NCRR history published in the NIH Almanac is the release of the ImageVis3D Mobile visualization app developed under the CIBC. In the events listed for the year 2010 it states: "Researchers led by Chris Johnson at the University of Utah's NCRR-supported Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing developed an iPhone application that is changing how and where doctors practice medicine. The ImageVis3D Mobile visualization program enables them to retrieve and view high-resolution 3-D medical images on their mobile phones."
has been awarded "Best Paper" at the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) 2012. Winning papers are chosen by the LDAV committee based on which submission is deemed the strongest to the conference according to the reviewing criteria.
Congratulations also go out to Liang Zhou, and Charles Hansen who received a Best Poster Honorable Mention for their poster entitled "A System for More Intuitive Multivariate Volume Exploration and Visualization."
Best Paper Awarded at MICCAI 2012
Congratulations to Suyash Awate, Peihong Zhu and Ross Whitaker whose paper has been awarded "Best Paper" at the MICCAI workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis. Winning papers are chosen by the organisers based on relevance, novelty and scientific contribution.
Congratulations to SCI Faculty member and USTAR Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tolga Tasdizen who was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award for his proposal "Deep sparse dictionary context models and their application to image parsing and neuron tracking for connectomics".
ImageVis3D is a desktop volume rendering application which was designed to visualize large data. Support is available for multiple rendering modes, such as 1D and 2D transfer functions, isosurface rendering, as well as specialized modes such as MIP and slice views. On modern systems, ImageVis3D's GPU-accelerated rendering delivers incredible performance, while compatibility options exist to allow ImageVis3D to perform adequately on older systems.
EpiCanvas Publication Awarded 1st Place Biosurveillance Article
Congratulations to Yarden Livnat and Nathan Galli, et. al. whose paper received the 1st place Award for Outstanding Research Article in Biosurveillance in the Scientific Achievement Category by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS). This paper describes the development of a new software prototype designed to explore infectious disese data in an interactive visual way that will allow public health professionals to find spacial and temporal correlations, a kind of "disease weather map."
The SCIRun development team is pleased to announce the release of SCIRun 4.6 with meshing tools. SCIRun 4.6 is available as a binary download for Windows and OS X, and as a source download for Linux.
Chris Johnson Receives the IEEE IPDPS 2012 Charles Babbage Award
Congratulations to Chris Johnson on receiving the IEEE IPDPS 2012 Charles Babbage Award in recognition of his innovations in the area of scientific visualization and their application to computational biomedicine, engineering, and scientific discovery.
Miriah Meyer Named as Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Congratulations to Miriah Meyer who has been selected as one of seven Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows for 2012. The award recognizes innovative, promising new faculty members from research institutions around the world for their advancements in computing research. Miriah will receive her grant at Microsoft’s 2012 Faculty Summit on July 16-17 in Redmond, Washington.
In a recent study, researchers at the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories (MRL) examined the mechanics of cartilage in the normal hips of 10 healthy adult volunteers. Now they have made the de-identified CT arthrogram datasets available online for other researchers to download. The datasets were acquired as part of a research project on the biomechanics of hip dysplasia (NIH #R01AR053344). Healthy young adults consented to receive a CT arthrogram of one hip joint. The image datasets include the pelvis and proximal femur. One hip joint has been injected with a contrast agent to facilitate delineation of intra-articular cartilage layers. The contralateral hip joint is also visible. The datasets along with details about the subjects, CT scan settings, and image resolution can be found on the MRL Lab Data Archive.
FluoRender Image Among Winners of FASEB BioArt Competition
Congratulations to Yong Wan and Charles Hansen, et al on their winning submission to this year's FASEB BioArt Competition
A. Kelsey Lewis1, Yong Wan1, Mary Colasanto1, Mark van Langeveld1, Ronen Schweitzer2§, Charles D. Hansen1, and Gabrielle Kardon1§ 1University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 2Shriners Hospital, Portland, OR, §Society for Developmental Biology