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  • SCI Starts New Phase in the Warnock Engineering Building

    The John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute has begun a new phase of life in the John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building, a newly constructed, state of the art research fa...
  • Tolga Tasdizen to Serve as a USTAR Faculty Member Within the SCI Institute

    Dr. Tolga Tasdizen has joined the SCI faculty as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and will become the SCI Institute's second USTAR Faculty member, joining Dr. Guido Gerig. Prior to being appointed USTAR Facul...
  • Steve Corbató Named Director of Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiatives at the University of Utah

    The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute congratulates Dr. Steve Corbató on being named Director of Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiatives at the University of Utah. Dr. Corbató has served as the SCI Institute's Associate director since May of ...
  • CRCNS: Fighting Blindness

    Despite great advances in neuroscience and medical technology in recent decades, nearly ten million Americans still suffer blindness due to retinal degenerative diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic r...
  • Announcing VisTrails 1.0!

    Fig 1: The VisTrails history tree contains a node for each version of a workflow (or pipeline) as it evolves over time. This results in a complete audit trail of the steps that were taken in a computational task. VisTrails is a new system...
  • Brain Image Analysis Team Joins SCI Institute

    (L-R) Dr. Guido Gerig, Dr. Marcel Prastawa, Casey Goodlett, Sylvain Gouttard The SCI Institute is proud to welcome an Internationally renowned brain imaging team led by Dr. Guido Gerig to our group. Dr. Gerig is a senior researcher in neu...
  • Developing the Next Generation Tools for Preoperative Planning for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

    One of the exciting projects in which the SCI Institute is collaborating is the development of new tools and techniques to assist doctors optimize the placement of Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICDs) prior to surgery. ...
  • Building a Better Brain Atlas

    In 1909 the Broadman areas map was published which localized various functions of cortex. Since the beginning of the 20th century, scientists have used brain models to study the anatomy and function of the human brain. It was discovered t...
  • Announcing SCIRun/BioPSE 3.0!

    Download Now! The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and the Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) are proud to announce the first major release under the new center of their flagship software SCIRun/BioPSE Version 3.0! ...
  • VisTrails: A New Paradigm for Dataflow Management

    Modern problem solving environments such as SCIRun have provided scientists with the essential tools for composing complex simulations and visualizations of large scale data. The dataflow programming paradigm has made what was once a rather daunting progr...
  • The Mechanics of Angiogenesis

    Angiogenesis, or the formation of new blood vessels, is a critical part of tissue growth and healing processes. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of this process and how it affects the perfused tissues is fundamental to many issues in medicine. For ...
  • The Center for Interactive Ray-Tracing and Photo Realistic Visualization

    The SCI Institute is honored to host a new Center of Excellence for Interactive Ray-Tracing and Photo Realistic Visualization dedicated to the development of tools for interactively visualizing large-scale datasets on the fly with advanced lighting and ma...
  • The Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing

    SCI is pleased to announce the launch of our new NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC), a five year extension of our previous NCRR center but with a new broader scope. With the new center, we will be conducting exciting research and dev...
  • Influence of Tissue Conductivity Anisotropy on ReturnCurrent Computation in a Realistic Head Model

    Principal Researchers: C.H. Wolters, A. Anwander, X. Tricoche, S. Lew and C.R. Johnson Surgeons, neurologists, and neuroscientists are often interested in non-invasively localizing the neuronal source of brain activity. The accurate localization of neuro...