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 access to unique resources and expertise found within the SCI Institute, creating an expanded relationship between the SCI Institute and our past, present and future academic and industry collaborators.

SCI X 2025

SCI X, April 11th, 2025

Collaborative research has always been a hallmark of the SCI Institute. And with the number of current projects going on, the options to collaborate are unprecedented. However, with that number it it is easy to feel disconnected from each other. This year's SCIx will be focused on showcasing SCI research primarilly among one another, but also to our collaborators and university partners.

A primary goal of our organization of this event is to allow members of SCI, particularly the students, to be exposed to as many of the other research groups at the institute as possible. For this reason, we will avoid parallel sessions and try to maximize the chance that someone attending this event can reasonably see everything. This is an impossible task, to summarize the work of SCI in a single day. But it is a task we pursue nonetheless.

You can register for this event here

8:15 AM

Registration

8:45 AM

Opening Address

9:00 AM

Poster Session 1

9:45 AM

Podium Session 1

11:00 AM

Poster Session 2

11:45 AM

Podium Session 2

1:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM

Poster Session 3

2:45 PM

Podium Session 3

4:00 PM

RAI Fellows Presentations

5:15 PM

Closing Remarks

SCI X 2024

SCI X, April 24th, 2024

In 2024, the SCI Institute marked three decades of multidisciplinary research, innovation, and impact. On April 24th and 25th, we had two days of events showcasing the ground-breaking research of SCI’s faculty, staff and students and highlighting our vision for the future. For more information, please visit sci.utah.edu/sci30

SCI X 2016

SCI X, November 16th, 2016

Keynote

Dr. Jim Clark
Founder of Netscape, SGI, WEBMD/Healtheon,
and cofounder and CEO of CommandScape, Inc

Posters and Demos

Scientific Visualization

Platform-Independent Genome-Wide Pattern of DNA Copy-Number Alterations Predicting Astrocytoma Survival and Response to Treatment Revealed by the GSVD Formulated as a Comparative Spectral Decomposition: Katherine A. Aiello and Orly Alter
A Novel Tensor GSVD Predicting Ovarian Serous Cystadenocarcinoma Survival and Response to Platinum-Based Chemotherapy: Theodore E. Schomay, Katherine A. Aiello, and Orly Alter
SVD Identifies Transcript Length Distribution Functions from DNA Microarray Data and Reveals Evolutionary Forces Globally Affecting GBM Metabolism: Nicolas M. Bertagnolli, Justin A. Drake, Jason M. Tennessen and Orly Alter
Detecting copy-number variation using dNTP limited PCR and high-resolution melting: Luming Zhou, Robert Palais and Carl T. Wittwer
In Situ Visualization of Particle Simulations: Will Usher, Ingo Wald, Aaron Knoll, Michael Papka, Valerio Pascucci
Grassmannian Atlas: A General Framework for Exploring Linear Projections of High-Dimensional Data: Shusen Liu, Peer-Timo Bremer, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Bei Wang, Brian Summa, and Valerio Pascucci
PIDX: Scalable I/O for Massive Simulations: Sidharth Kumar, Steve Petruzza, Duong Hoang, Valerio Pascucci
Brain Source Localization Pipeline: Ally Warner, Chris Johnson, Moritz Dannhauer
OpenSpace: Charles Hansen, Gene Payne, Matthew Territo
Parallel processing of non-human primate brain data: Steve Petruzza, Aniketh Venkat, Attila Gyulassy, Frederick Federer, Alessandra Angelucci, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci
Data Exploration for Nuclear Safety Analysis: Dan Maljovec, BeiWang, Paul Rosen, Diego Mandelli, Andrea Alfonsi, Giovanni Pastore, Cristian Rabiti, Valerio Pascucci
Interactive Analysis of Petascale Climate Datasets: Cameron Christensen, Shusen Liu, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
Direct Multifield Volume Ray Casting of Fiber Surfaces: Kui Wu, Aaron Knoll, Benjamin J Isaac, Hamish Carr, Valerio Pascucci
Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Tracking Graphs for Understanding Evolution of Features: Wathsala Widanagamaachchi, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
Interactive Topological Exploration of Particle Ensembles: Harsh Bhatia, Pavol Klacansky, Shusen Liu, Wathsala Widanagamaachchi, Attila Gyulassy, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer
ViSOAR Ag Explorer: Amy A. Gooch, Giorgio Scorzelli, Attila Gyulassy, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
Telemedicine: ViSOAR Share: Luis Carlos Antola, Amy A. Gooch, Giorgio Scorzelli, Attila Gyulassy, Valerio Pascucci
Data Acquisition, Management and Computation for Neuroscience: Aniketh Venkat, Frederick Federer, Steve Petruzza, Attila Gyulassy, Alessandra Angelucci and Valerio Pascucci
Robust Feature Simplification of Vector Fields: Bei Wang, Primoz Skraba, Paul Rosen, Guoning Chen, Harsh Bhatia and Valerio Pascucci
Analysis and Visualization of ALMA Data Cubes: Paul Rosen, Bei Wang, Chris Johnson, Jeff Kern, Betsy Mills, Anil Seth
Finding Hidden Shapes: Topology for Feature-Based Reasoning: Attila Gyulassy, Harsh Bhatia, Aaron Knoll, Bei Wang, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci

Demos:

FluoRender: Yong Wan
Neuron Microscopy Data Tracing in Virtual Reality: Pavol Klacansky and Will Usher
Intel’s OSPRay Renderer on a Displaywall: Laura Lediaev
OpenSpace: Gene Payne, Matthew Territo

Infovis

Visually Comparing Weather Features in Forecasts: P. Samuel Quinan and Miriah Meyer
Visualization for Reverse Engineering the Retina: Ethan Kerzner and Miriah Meyer
Pathfinder: Visual Analysis of Paths in Heterogeneous Graphs: Christian Partl, Samuel Gratzl, Marc Streit, Anne Mai Wasserman, Hanspeter Pfister, Dieter Schmalstieg, and Alexander Lex
BubbleNet: A Cyber Security Dashboard: Sean McKenna, Diane Staheli, Cody Fulcher, Miriah Meyer
Distributed Indoor Air-quality Sensing (DIAS): Jimmy Moore, Miriah Meyer
DragonView: Toward Understanding Network Interference in Dragonfly-based Supercomputers: Yarden Livnat, Abhinav Bhatele, Nikhil Jain, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci

Imaging

Biomedical Image and Data Analysis Core - BIDAC: Josh Cates, Clement Vachet
Connectomics Empowered By Deep Learning: Mehran Javanmardi, Mehdi Sajjadi, Tolga Tasdizen
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Uses: Eleanor Wong and Blake Zimmerman
MRI and CT Basis for SCI Imaging Projects: Markus Foote and Blake Zimmerman
Motion Estimation in Medical Images: Markus Foote, Caleb Rottman, Sarang Joshi
Generalized Data Depth and Applications: Mukund Raj, Mahsa Mirzargar, Robert M. Kirby and Ross T. Whitaker
Quantitative Analysis of Femoral Cortical Bone Thickness using Shape Analysis: Praful Agrawal, Shireen Y. Elhabian, Penny Atkins, Ross T. Whitaker, Jeff Weiss, and Andrew E. Anderson
Objective Severity Metric for Craniosynostosis: Riddhish Bhalodia, Ladislav Kavan, Ross Whitaker

Demos:

ShapeWorks: Praful Agrawal
Shape Variation Animation: Rhiddish Bhalodia

Biomedical Computing

Virtual Neurophysiology Workbench: Alberto Fuentes, Christopher R. Butson PhD
Patient-Specific Computational Modeling Aids Deep Brain Stimulation Therapies: Andrew Janson, Johannes Vorwerk PhD, Christopher R. Butson PhD
Mobile Decision Support System for Nurse Management of Neuromodulation Therapy: Gordon Duffley, Jens Krueger PhD,AnikoSzabo PhD, Barbara Lutz PhD, Daniel Martinez-Ramirez MD, Michael S. OkunMD, Christopher R. ButsonPhD
Which anatomical regions are activated by Deep Brain Stimulation as elucidated by high field diffusion weighted MRI?: Katherine G. Warthen, Dr. Chris R. Buston, Dr. Justin D. Hilliard, Dr. Kelly D. Foote
FEBio: Finite Elements for Biomechanics: Steve A. Maas, David S. Rawlins, Gerard Ateshian, Benjamin J. Ellis, Jeffrey A. Weiss
Effect of Focal Chondral Defects in the Hip: A Framework for Understanding Degradation and Developing Treatment Strategies: Jocelyn N. Todd, Travis G. Maak, Jeffrey A. Weiss
Data Tools for ECGI: ECG Forward/Inverse Toolkit and EDGAR Database: Computational Electrocardiology Group
Noninvasive Electrical Diagnosis of Cardiac Abnormalities: The Computational Electrocardiology Group
The International Neuromodulation Registry: Butson Lab: Kara Johnson, Gordon Duffley, Andrew Janson, Daria Anderson, Katie Warthen, Shana Black, Corinne Garcia, Theresa Lins, Johannes Vorwerk, PhD, Andrea Brock MD, Christopher R. Butson, PhD. Development: Clement Vachet, Josh Cates of the Biomedical Image and Data Analysis Core (BIDAC), Wayne Bradford, David Richardson, Tom Cheatham, Anita Orendt of the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC)
Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI): Computational Electrocardiology Group
Consortium for ECG Imaging: Advancing ECGI Through Collaboration: Computational Electrocardiology Group

Scientific Computing

Modelling Electrochemical Devices: Chris Gritton, James Guilkey, Justin Hooper, Dmitry Bedrov, Robert M. Kirby, Martin Berzins
Preparing Uintah for Intel Xeon Phi-based Supercomputers: John Holmen, Damodar Sahasrabudhe, Daniel Sunderland, Alan Humphrey, and Martin Berzins
The WRF Single-Moment 6-Class Microphysics’ (WSM6) Performance Optimization: Timbwaoga Aime Judcael Ouermi (TAJO), Aaron Knoll, Robert M Kirby, Martin Berzins
Improving Clean Coal Technologies: Martin Berzins
Physically Constrained Ensemble Kalman Filter: Erin Linebarger, Akil Narayan, Dongbin Xiu

Demos:

Uintah: Allen Sanderson

SCI X 2012

SCI X, November 13th, 2012

Keynote

Dr. Alan Kay
President and Founder, Viewpoints Research Institute

Posters and Demos

Visualization

Faculty: Chris Johnson, Miriah Meyer, Chuck Hansen

Visualization of Biological Data - Miriah Meyer
Visual Analytics for Situational Awareness - Yarden Livnat
Interactive Exploration of Large Tractography and EEG Data for Source Localization - Erik Anderson
Uncertainty Visualization at SCI - Kristi Potter
Visualization Approaches for Performance Analysis of Massively Parallel Applications - Paul Rosen
BioVis Software demo - Kris Zygmunt
CompreheNGSive, a Tool for Exploring Next-generation Sequencing Variants - Alex Bigelow
A Story of Reanimating An Embryonic Mouse Limb - Yong Wan
Using Depth Perception to Enhance Volume Rendering - Pascal Grosset
ImageVis3D software - James Hughes

Image Processing

Faculty: Guido Gerig, Ross Whitaker, Sarang Joshi

Down Syndrome: Bridging Genes, Brain and Cognition - Clement Vachet
Automatic Geological Feature Detection in Seismic Volumes - Danny Perry
Polynomial Regression on Riemannian Manifolds - Jacob Hinkle
Meshing for Multimaterial Biological Volumes - Jonathan Bronson
An Optimal Graph-cut Method for Atrial Wall Segmentation from Delayed Contrast MRI - Gopal Veni
White Matter Maturation in Early Brain Development - Neda Sadeghi, Anuja Sharma
Real Time Image Denoising of Fluoroscopy Images for Dose Reduction - Caleb Rottman
Characterization of Regional Appearance Changes in Early Brain Development - Avantika Vardhan

Shape Analysis

Faculty: Sarang Joshi, Tom Fletcher, Guido Gerig, Ross Whitaker

Quantitative Analysis of Time Series of MR Images of TBI Patients - Bo Wang
Analysis of Longitudinal Shape Variability vis Subject-Specific Growth Modeling - James Fishbaugh
Shape Analysis for Orthopedics - Manasi Datar
Analysis of Human Brain Connectivity from Multi-modal Imaging - Wei Liu, Xiang Hao
Shape Analysis in Kernel Space - Yen-Yun Yu
Relating Brain Shape with Neurological Disorders - Prasanna Muralidharan, Nikhil Singh

Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC)

Faculty: Chris Johnson, Rob Macleod, Ross Whitaker

SCIRun, Seg3D, BioMesh3D demos - Ayla Kahn, Dan White
ImageVis3D Demos - James Hughes
White Matter Structure Assessment from Reduced HARDI Data using Low-Rank Polynomial Appoximations - Yaniv Gur

Cardiac and Neuro Electrophysiology

Faculty: Rob Macleod

Jess Tate, Kedar Aras, Greg Gardner, Josh Blauer, Darrel Swenson, and Moritz Dannhauer

Genomic Signal Processing

Faculty: Orly Alter

Global Copy-Number Alterations Predicting Glioblastoma Multiforme Survival from Comparative Modeling of Patient-Matched Tumor and Normal aCGH Profiles - Benjamin Alpert, Preethi Sankaranarayanan
Cross-Platform Validation of a Genomic Pattern for the Prognosis and Assessment of GBM Brain Cancer - Katie Aiello
Similarities and Differences between Normal Brain and GBM Tumor Metabolism Uncovered by SVD of Transcript Size Distributions - Nicolas Bertagnolli, Jason Tennessen
Capacitive Model of Optically Induced Cell Stimulation May Be Incomplete - Ted Schomay

Computational Biomechanics

Faculty: Jeffrey Weiss

Subject-Specific Computational Modeling of Normal, Dysplastic and Retroverted Hips - Corinne Henak
FEBio: Finite Elements for Biomechanics, software demo - David Rawlins, Steve Maas, Benjamin Ellis
AngioFE: Simulation of the Mechanical Regulation or Angiogenesis - Lowell Edgar

SCI X 2011

SCI X, November 4th, 2011

Keynote

Dr. John E Warnock
Co-founder of Adobe Systems, Utah alumnus

ARPA, Graphics at Utah, XEROX, and
The Evolution of the Personal Computer

Panel Discussions:

University Promo for SCI X 2011

University Coverage of SCI X 2011

Posters and Demos

Imaging Research

Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Connectomics - Tolga Tasdizen

Neural Circuit Reconstruction using Electron Microscopy - Seyed Mojtaba Seyedhosseini Tarzjani
Long Range Digital Neural Circuit Reconstruction - Luke Hogrebe
Long Range Axon Tracing with Neurotracker - Cameron Christensen, in collaboration with Valerio Pascucci

Statistical Analysis of Images and Shape - Tom Fletcher

On Relating Brain Shape with Neurological Disorders - Prasanna Muralidharan, Nikhil Singh, in collaboration with Sarang Joshi
Analysis of Human Brain Connectivity from Mutli-Model Imaging - Wei Liu, Xiang Hao
Heritability of Facial Appearance - Yen-Yun Yu

Neuroimaging Research - Guido Gerig

Continuous Trajectories from discrete Anatomical Shapes - James Fishbaugh
Analysis of White Matter Maturation in Early Brain Development - Neda Sadeghi
Brain Changes in Traumatic Brain Injury - Bo Wang, Marcel Prastawa
Segmenting the Invisible: Processing of 4D Image Data - Avantika Vardhan, Sylvain Gouttard
Brain Imaging Studies: High Throughput by Automatic Processing Pipeline - Xiaoyue Huang
Down Syndrome: Bridging Genes, Brain and Cognition - Sylvain Gouttard

Image Processing - Ross Whitaker

DTI Building and Statistical Analysis - Gopalkrishna Veni
Meshing for Multimaterial Biological Volumes - Jonathan Bronson
Fast Shape-based Nearest-Neighbor Search for Brain MRIs - Peihong Zhu
Brain Population Analysis with Manifold Models - Sam Gerber
Solving Eikonal Equations - Zhisong Fu, in collaboration with Mike Kirby
Image Registration - Jihwan Kim

Brain Imaging - Sarang Joshi

Modeling Respiratory and Cardiac Organ Motion - Jacob Hinkle
Real-time Image Denoising of Fluoroscopy Images for Dose Reduction - Caleb Rottman, in collaboration with Ross Whitaker

Scientific Computing

Scientific Computing - Mike Kirby

Cardiac Position Sensitivity using Stochastic Collocation - Darrell Swenson, in collaboration with Rob Macleod
Interactive Visualization of High-Order Finite Element Fields using a GPU-based Ray Tracer - Blake Nelson
A Fast Iterative Method for Solving the Eikonal Equation on Triangulated Surfaces - Zhisong Fu, James Lewis, in collaboration with Ross Whitaker
Filtering for Visualization - Hanieh Mirzaee

Personalized Heart and Brain Bioelectrical Research - Rob MacLeod

Image based Modeling Pipeline - Darrell Swenson, Dafang Wang
Noninvasive Diagnosis and Localization of Heart Ischemia from Body-Surface Electrocardiography
Volume conductor modeling of the human head for electroencephalography (EEG) used in epilepsy
Myocardial Ischemia - Kedar Aras, Brett Burton
Cardiac Arrhythmias - Greg Gardner, Josh Blauer, Jess Tate
Epilepsy investigated non-invasively using Elecroencephalography (EEG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Volume conductor modeling of the human head for electroencephalography (EEG) used in epilepsy - Moritz Dannhauer

Uintah - Martin Berzins

Uintah Software - John Schmidt, John Davison de St-Germain

Musculoskeletal Research - Jeff Weiss

Patient-specific Modeling of Hip Dysplasia - Corinne Henak, Ben Ellis, Andy Anderson
FEBio: Finite Elements for Biomechanics, Software Demo - Steve Maas

Genomic Signal Processing - Orly Alter

Medical Prediction from Comparison of Patient-Matched Genomic Profiles - Benjamin O. Alpert
Novel Cancer Drug Targets from Comparison of Patient-Matched Genomic Profiles - Preethi Sankaranarayanan
A Higher-Order Decomposition for Comparison of Multiple Large-Scale Datasets - Sri Priya Pannopalli, Michael A. Saunders (Stanford University), Charles F. Van Loan (Cornell University)
Principles of Nature form Integration and Comparison of Large-Scale Molecular Biological Data - Orly Alter