1. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http://na-mic.org The SCI Institute Simulation & Scientific Computing VisualizationImage Analysis Problem Solving Enviroments & Tools

2. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http://na-mic.org SCI and Image Processing SCI –~110 people –$10M/year NIH, DOE, NSF, DARPA, Industry –14 faculty Image processing –~12 people –$1M/year NIH, NSF, GE, Exxon-Mobil –4 Faculty

3. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http://na-mic.org Image Processing & Projects NIH: NCRR - CIBC * –Access to ITK tools through SCIRun –Primary collaborators: Cappechi, Ellisman NIH/NSF: Serial section analysis for neuron tacking & reconstruction * –Marc Laboratory NSF: Geometric tools for processing biological volumes * GE: 3D Tomography from C-Arm data * Exxon-Mobil: Seismic data analysis * ITK as primary development platform

4. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, http://na-mic.org Recent Scientific Results Nonparametric neighborhood statistics –Image denoising: CVPR 2005, PAMI 2005 –Segmentation: MICCAI 2005, ECCV (pending), MedIA (prep) Dynamic particle systems for shape sampling –SMI 2005 Autocalibration of cone-beam data –ISBI (pending) Riemannian metrics for shape comparisons/statistics –ECCV (pending) Fast, parallel solutions to the Eikonal equation –Alternatives to fast marching