Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, October 3, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Ron Kikinis, MD, founding Director, Surgical Planning Laboratory,
Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA, and Professor of Radiology, Harvard
Medical School
Seminar Title: Medical Image Computing: From Data to Understanding
Abstract: The development of new technologies that acquire large
amounts of complex data is accelerating throughout medicine.
Corresponding breakthroughs in accessible computation and algorithm
development have made image analysis an indispensable tool for
medical research and clinical practice. For example, image analysis
enables the data acquired using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and
functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) to reveal subject-specific
structure and function of the brain.
The emerging field of medical image computing requires strong,
interdisciplinary teams of researchers, physicians, and engineers.
Building such teams is a challenging but ultimately rewarding
process. The Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital
was founded in 1990 to enable research in image computation within
the hospital context. Today, the SPL is the hub of the National
Alliance for Medical Image Computing, a national effort with
international impact across biomedicine and, increasingly, other
fields of science. NAMIC drives scientific and engineering innovation
through interdisciplinary collaboration, application-driven
development, a well-designed hardware and software infrastructure,
and an open-source approach to dissemination and community-building.
This presentation will describe how research ideas evolve into useful
medical and scientific tools within the SPL and NAMIC environments.
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