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Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for February
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Cortical Reconstruction Using Implicit Surface Evolution (CRUISE) And More
Fri, Feb 03, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES"Cortical Reconstruction Using Implicit Surface Evolution (CRUISE) … And More"Prof. Jerry L. PrinceDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering The Johns Hopkins UniversityAbstract:Knowledge about the position and shape of the human brain cortex can be used for a wide variety of purposes in medicine and science, from learning about the function of the brain, to planning for surgery, to studying how diseases affect the brain. This talk presents CRUISE, an automatic method to find and geometrically represent the cortex of the brain from magnetic resonance images. Tissue classification and segmentation using geometric deformable models are at the core of this approach, and topological correctness is an underlying theme. It is shown how geometric properties of the cortex can be used to match the gyri and sulci (folding patterns) of multiple subjects. The result is an alignment of the cortices, which can then be used to apply a coordinate system to a given subject, to perform population analyses of function in a standardized coordinate system, or to assist in normalizing the whole brain to a standard atlas of the brain. CRUISE has been run on over 1,000 magnetic resonance brain images for testing, validation, and carrying out scientific studies.Bio:Jerry L. Prince received the B.S. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1979 and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in 1982, 1986, and 1988, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering and computer science. He has worked as an engineer at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC). He joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University in 1989, where he is currently William B. Kouwenhoven Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Dr. Prince is a
Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi. He also holds memberships in Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 1992-1995, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging from 2000-2004 and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Medical Image Analysis. Dr. Prince received a 1993 National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellows Award and was Maryland's 1997 Outstanding Young Engineer. He is also co-founder of Diagnosoft, Inc., a medical imaging software company. His current research interests are in image processing and computer vision with primary application to medical imaging and has published over 200 articles and abstracts on these subjects.Host: Prof. Richard Leahy, x04659Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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Neurobotics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Assisting Humans
Mon, Feb 13, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Yoky Matsuoka,
Anna Loomis McCandless Assistant Professor,
Carnegie Mellon UniversityHost: Petros IoannouAbstract:
Neurobotics is a new field that lies at the intersection of Robotics and Neuroscience. Neurobotics is currently a small community but is growing rapidly in both engineering and science. In the Neurobotics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, robotic models and environments are used to understand the biomechanics and neuromuscular control of human limbs. In parallel, robotic systems are developed to augment, replace and rehabilitate damaged sensorimotor functions. In this talk, an overview of the Neurobotics Lab is presented and two example projects are addressed in more detail. First, the Anatomically Correct Testbed (ACT) Hand, a prototype of a seamlessly integrated prosthetic hand, is introduced. A description of how the ACT Hand is used to understand the neural control strategy of the high-degree-of-freedom redundant human hand will follow. As a second example, a robotic rehabilitation environment with distorted feedback is presented. To enrich this therapeutic environment, a patient's adaptation and other neuromuscular states are monitored using a dynamic system identification technique, and a safe whole-body interaction environment is constructed. Finally, there will be a brief description of the Neurobotics Lab outreach and educational programs for minority and disabled students.Biography:
Professor Yoky Matsuoka is an Anna Loomis McCandless Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience in 1998. She received an M.S. from MIT in 1995 and a B.S. from UC Berkeley in 1993, both in EECS. Prior to joining CMU, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT and in Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. Her work at CMU earned a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2004, Anna Loomis McCandless Chair in 2004, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award in 2005.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Hernandez
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The many faces of electromagnetic brain imaging: from the localization of neural activations
Wed, Feb 15, 2006 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Sylvain Baillet, PhD
CNRS, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière,
Paris, FranceHost: Dr. Richard LeahyAbstract:Among the many possible ways to explore brain functions, electromagnetic brain mapping has unique time resolution at the millisecond scale. Measures consist of electric and magnetic signatures of neural activations picked at the scalp level using the techniques of electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) respectively. The inverse route from surface data to estimates of neural activity can take many paths that draw on a large variety of signal and image processing approaches and statistical analysis tools. Given the excellent time resolution of the resulting image sequences, another important aspect concerns multidimensional data mining issues in space, time, frequency and coupling indices of neural assemblies.This talk is a brief introduction to the potentials of electromagnetic brain mapping from the electrical engineering and integrative neuroscience point of views. Examples will be discussed essentially from sensori-motor studies and clinical applications such as epilepsy.Biography:Sylvain Baillet graduated in Applied Physics from the Ecole Normale Supêrieure, Cachan and in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paris, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Research Associate with the NeuroImaging Group at the Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles with Prof. Richard M. Leahy. He is now the head of the Brain Imaging group at the Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Laboratory, with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris.His research interests focus on confronting methods and models to experimental challenges in Neuroscience (visuo-motor coordination) and Neurology (epilepsy & stroke).
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Regina Morton
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ISMRM Workshop on Real-Time MRI
Thu, Feb 23, 2006 @ 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
With the advent of high-speed gradients, coil arrays, novel pulse sequence designs and reconstruction techniques, modern MR systems are capable of interactively acquiring and reconstructing images in real-time which has led to major advances in cardiac imaging, imaging during interventions, and imaging of dynamic processes such as joint motion and functional activation. Real-time imaging has unique needs in terms of system infrastructure, pulse sequence design, reconstruction, and careful examination of applications. The planned sessions will cover the latest clinical and research applications of real-time MRI, along with the latest technical developments including new system infrastructures, contrast mechanisms, artifact avoidance and correction, and methods for extending the limits of spatial resolution, temporal resolution and SNR. This format naturally includes educational presentations and presentations describing the current state-of-the-art. Submitted papers will be considered for presentation as short talks or posters. In addition, we will have a session showcasing hot topics and future trends. Invited presenters will include young scientists and scientists from inside and outside North America. This will also be the first multi-vendor workshop on real-time MRI.In this workshop, "real-time" MRI is defined as having an end-to-end system latency of less than 1 second (which includes acquisition, reconstruction, and display).http://www.ismrm.org/workshops/RealTime_MRI/
Location: Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica
Audiences: Medical Imaging Researchers
Contact: Krishna Nayak
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
ISMRM Workshop on Real-Time MRI
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
With the advent of high-speed gradients, coil arrays, novel pulse sequence designs and reconstruction techniques, modern MR systems are capable of interactively acquiring and reconstructing images in real-time which has led to major advances in cardiac imaging, imaging during interventions, and imaging of dynamic processes such as joint motion and functional activation. Real-time imaging has unique needs in terms of system infrastructure, pulse sequence design, reconstruction, and careful examination of applications. The planned sessions will cover the latest clinical and research applications of real-time MRI, along with the latest technical developments including new system infrastructures, contrast mechanisms, artifact avoidance and correction, and methods for extending the limits of spatial resolution, temporal resolution and SNR. This format naturally includes educational presentations and presentations describing the current state-of-the-art. Submitted papers will be considered for presentation as short talks or posters. In addition, we will have a session showcasing hot topics and future trends. Invited presenters will include young scientists and scientists from inside and outside North America. This will also be the first multi-vendor workshop on real-time MRI.In this workshop, "real-time" MRI is defined as having an end-to-end system latency of less than 1 second (which includes acquisition, reconstruction, and display).http://www.ismrm.org/workshops/RealTime_MRI/
Location: Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica
Audiences: Medical Imaging Researchers
Contact: Krishna Nayak
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
