Imaging in Medicine and Neurosciences

Part of the Long Program Geometrically Based Motions
May 21 - 24, 2001

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 21, 2001

Morning Session

Novel Imaging Strategies
8:30 - 9:20 Registration
9:20 - 9:30
Eitan Tadmor (UCLA / University of Maryland)

Opening Remarks

9:30 - 10:30
Keynote Speaker: Micheal Phelps (UCLA School of Medicine)

A New World of Molecular Imaging: A gift from Mathematics
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Gérard Medioni (University of Southern California)

Tensor Voting: A Computational Framework for Segmentation and Grouping
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

PDEs in Imaging - Chair: Stanley Osher
2:00 - 3:00
Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota)

A tour on GBM for medical imaging

3:00 - 3:10 Coffee Break
3:10 - 4:00
4:00 - 5:00
Chandrajit Bajaj (University of Texas, Austin)

Anisotropic Geometric Diffusion in 3D Imaging

5:00 - 5:30 Discussion and Closing Remarks
5:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Morning Session

Shape, Pattern Theory and Genetics - Chair: Eitan Tadmor
9:00 - 10:00
Keynote Speaker: David Mumford (Brown University)

The Infinite Dimensional Space of Shapes

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30
Sam Gambhir (UCLA/School of Medicine)

Imaging Gene Expression in Vivo

11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

Shape and Level Sets - Chair: Simon Cherry
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
Steve Haker (Surgical Planning Lab/Harvard)

Conformal and Area-Preserving Maps for Surface Warping and Image Registration

4:30 - 5:00 Discussion and Closing Remarks

Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Morning Session

Biomedical Imaging and Genetics - Chair: Paul Thompson
9:00 - 10:00
Desmond Smith (UCLA/School of Medicine)

How the genome makes a brain

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Advanced Imaging and Reconstruction Approaches - Chair: Guillermo Sapiro
2:00 - 3:00
Simon Cherry (University of California at Davis)

Radiology meets Biology: New imaging technology for the mouse

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
Richard Leahy (University of Southern California)

Positron Emission Tomography: Image Formation and Analysis

4:30 - 5:00 Discussion and Closing Remarks

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Morning Session
8:45 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 9:30
Eitan Tadmor (UCLA / University of Maryland)

Welcome Remarks

Session I: Brain Mapping - Chair: Paul Thompson
9:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Anders Dale (Massachusetts General Hospital)

 

11:30 - 12:00
James Brinkley (University of Washington)

Visualization-based brain mapping
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session II: Brain Image Analysis - Chair: Arthur Toga
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
M. Faisal Beg (Johns Hopkins University, Center for Imaging Science)

Computational Anatomy: Computing Metrics on Anatomical Shapes

3:00 - 3:30
James Gee (University of Pennsylvania)

Non-rigid Tensor Registration

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:30
Christos Davatzikos (Johns Hopkins University/School of Medicine)

Deformable Shape Models for Computational Anatomy
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
4:30 - 5:00
Gary Christensen (University of Iowa)

Synthesizing Average Brain Shape and Validation

5:00 - 5:45 Discussion and Closing Remarks
5:45 - 6:30 Break
6:30 Dinner for Speakers (Hosted by Labratory of Neuro Imaging)

Friday, May 25, 2001

Morning Session
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)