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News and Events:
Dr. Chuck Hansen Receives IEEE 2005 Visualization Technical Achievement Award
Dr. Chuck Hansen has been awarded the
2005 Visualization Technical Achievement Award by the Visualization
and Graphics Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE VGTC).
The award is in recognition of "seminal work on tools for understanding large-scale scientific data sets".
This is an international award and is the highest honor and recognition in visualization research. The IEEE VGTC started this award just last year, so Chuck is the second recipient of the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award.
Congratulations Chuck!!
Dr. Chris Johnson Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Chris Johnson, a distinguished professor of computer science and director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, has been elected by his peers as a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Johnson is one of 376 AAAS members who were given the distinction this year "because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished," the group says. Johnson specifically was cited "for distinguished contributions to scientific computing and scientific visualization." The AAAS, founded in 1848, is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, which has an estimated total readership of 1 million.
Dr. Greg Jones Appointed State Science Advisor
By PR and Business Wire News, 9/12/2005 03:36:02 PM MTUtah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., has appointed Gregory M. Jones, PhD as the new State Science Advisor. The position is part of the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) and oversees the state's economic clusters to create jobs.
Before joining state government, Dr. Jones was the associate director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute in Salt Lake City and an adjunct assistant professor of Radiology at the University of Utah. He was also president and chief operations officer of Visual Influence Inc., a spin-off company of SCI.
"Dr. Jones brings a wealth of academic knowledge and business acumen and will be a significant addition to our economic development team," said Governor Huntsman. "We are fortunate to have someone of his caliber; who is willing to serve in the public sector."
Dr. Jones received his bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of New Mexico in 1988. He also earned his doctoral degree from the University of New Mexico in Biomedical Science. Between degrees, Jones was an optical engineer with CVI Laser Co. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializing in optical testing and optical instrument design. Jones also managed the optical fabrication department of CVI. From 1997 to 1999, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah in the Department of Radiology where he was a member of the Functional Brain Imaging Group. Jones later joined Storage Technology Inc. (StorageTek) as a principal consultant in the Medical Group. In April of 2000, he became associate director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute.
The governor announced his economic clusters for job creation in June. The clusters include: Life Sciences, Software Development & Information Technology, Aerospace, Defense & Homeland Security, Financial Services, Energy and Natural Resources, and Competitive Accelerators such as nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, logistics and distribution centers, and quality of life.
SCIRun ported to SGI PrismTM
The SCI Institute is proud to announce the availability of SCIRun on the Silicon Graphics PrismTM visualization system. The combination of large memory, parallel CPUs and advanced graphics capabilities on the Silicon Graphics Prism provide an ideal platform for the SCIRun problem solving environment. The modular nature of the Silicon Graphics Prism allows scaling to meet the computational needs of the most demanding SCIRun users.
Using SCIRun's advanced volume rendering PowerApp 'BioImage' we are able to fully exploit the powerful graphics capabilities of the Prism system. The combination with BioImage, the Prism's graphics capabilities and a 64-bit architecture allow for interactive visualization of very large datasets.
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SCIRun's BioImage Visualization Software. A dataset showing a cross section of a computed tomography scan of the chest is shown using the SCI Institute's BioImage. The dataset, Dr. George Chen's group at Mass. General Hospital, is viewable interactively using the combination of the Silicon Graphics Prism system and SCI's BioImage. This visualization requires advanced graphics such as fragment shaders and other advanced GPU functions. The combination of these features and the ability to handle large datasets makes the Prism system an highly effective system for the SCI Institute research mission. |
Additionally, SCI has also ported the Insight toolkit (ITK) and the visualization toolkit (VTK) to the Silicon Graphics Prism system. A Silicon Graphics Prism system located at the SCI Institute provides the platform for the nightly builds of both ITK and VTK.
The Silicon Graphics PrismTM Deskside
SCIRun/BioPSE 1.24.2 Now Available!
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on the 1.24.0-beta pre-release. Based on your suggestions, we fixed important bugs over the past few weeks, and we added many great new features as well.
This version of SCIRun/BioPSE contains a new PowerApp called "BioImage" for the processing and visualization of medical image volumes. With BioImage users can directly load a variety of native data formats (e.g. DICOM, Analyze, VFF, NRRD, PICT) and can apply processing algorithms to specify and enhance regions of interest within the volume (e.g. cropping, resampling, histogram equalization, median filtering, contrast / brightness). The BioImage visual interface allows users to interact with their data both in 2D "slice views" (powered by the new ViewSlices module), as well as in a full 3D "volume rendering view" (powered by our new high-performance volume rendering modules). Users can seamlessly move between the 2D and 3D views to precisely control how different features of their data are displayed, and to gain both quantitative and qualitative insights. All of these features are described in detail in our new BioImage tutorial.
In addition to BioImage (and the new volume rendering and slice-viewing modules that drive it), we have made numerous improvements to SCIRun/BioPSE in version 1.24 -- for more information about what's new in this release, please see our Release Highlights page.
As always, our software is available for download from the SCI Software site.
For this release we have made source code available, as well as RPMs for Linux (Mandrake 9.x and RedHat 9.x), and a new binary distribution for Mac OSX 10.3. For information on installing SCIRun, please see the platform-specific Installation Guides at the top left of the SCIRun/BioPSE Documantation page.
[Note: if you are installing SCIRun from source on a Mac and you plan to enable the Insight Package (ITK 2.0), you will need to download and install the gcc 3.3 update that Apple posted to their Developer Connection web site last November.]
If you have any questions regarding SCIRun/BioPSE, please send email to scirun-users@sci.utah.edu or scirun-develop@sci.utah.edu with any specific problems you encounter.
We hope you enjoy SCIRun/BioPSE 1.24.2!
