Designed especially for neurobiologists, FluoRender is an interactive tool for multi-channel fluorescence microscopy data visualization and analysis.
Deep brain stimulation
BrainStimulator is a set of networks that are used in SCIRun to perform simulations of brain stimulation such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and magnetic transcranial stimulation (TMS).
Developing software tools for science has always been a central vision of the SCI Institute.

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celebrate UMike Kirby has been chosen as one of two top researchers in the College of Engineering as part of the CELEBRATE U: A Showcase of Extraordinary Faculty Achievements event hosted by the J. Willard Marriott Library and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

University of Utah bioengineers detect early signs of damage in connective tissues such as ligaments, tendons and cartilage

By the time someone realizes they damaged a ligament, tendon or cartilage from too much exercise or other types of physical activity, it's too late. The tissue is stretched and torn and the person is writhing in pain.

But a team of researchers led by University of Utah bioengineering professors Jeffrey Weiss and Michael Yu has discovered that damage to collagen, the main building block of all human tissue, can occur much earlier at a molecular level from too much physical stress, alerting doctors and scientists that a patient is on the path to major tissue damage and pain.

soundartCongratulations to Erik Brunvand and Nina McCurdy whose paper, Making Noise: Using Sound-­Art to Explore Technological Fluency, will receive one of three best paper awards at SIGCSE 2017.

Abstract: We describe our experience designing and delivering a general education technological fluency course that frames the discussion of computer science and engineering technology (electronics and programming) in the context of sound-art: art that uses sound as its medium. This course is aimed at undergraduate students from a wide variety of backgrounds and is designed to fit into the "Intellectual Explorations" area of a general undergraduate program. The goal is to introduce computer engineering and computational principles to non-CS students through an exploration of sound-art, experimental and electronic music, noise-making circuits, hardware hacking, and circuit bending.

aurora espCongratulations to Martin Berzins and the Carbon-Capture Multidisciplinary Simulation Center on their selection as one of ten computational science and engineering research projects for its Aurora Early Science Program starting this month. Aurora, a massively parallel, manycore Intel-Cray supercomputer, will be ALCF's next leadership-class computing resource and is expected to arrive in 2018.

thiago oscarsCongratulations to SCI Institute Alumnus Thiago Ize for receiving a Technical Achievement Oscar for his work on ray tracing:

To Marcos Fajardo for the creative vision and original implementation of the Arnold Renderer, and to Chris Kulla, Alan King, Thiago Ize and Clifford Stein for their highly optimized geometry engine and novel ray-tracing algorithms which unify the rendering of curves, surfaces, volumetrics and subsurface scattering as developed at Sony Pictures Imageworks and Solid Angle SL.

http://www.oscars.org/news/18-scientific-and-technical-achievements-be-honored-academy-awards-0
rob aimbeCongratulations to Rob MacLeod for being elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). After very careful consideration, including the most rigorous and selective review process in AIMBE's history, Rob was among an impressive group who were elected to the 2017 Class of the College of Fellows.

christmas teapots 9Congratulations to Laura Lediaev, who won the Utah Rendering Competition for the third year in a row. Laura's entry, titled Christmas Teapots, was the overall winner and receiver of the audience choice award. The rendering is based on creating time-varying composites of light layers in order to simulate the effect of twinkling Christmas lights and flickering candles. The scene has 30 lights, one inside each teapot. Light layers are created during rendering by saving the contribution of each light into its own image. This produced 30 images/layers. Each light produced 4,000 samples per pixel. That adds up to 120,000 samples per pixel after compositing. Laura allowed up to 10 diffuse light bounces and 200 specular bounces.

For more information on the project, visit http://www.omnigraphica.com/classes/cs6620/contest2016.html






miriah DYACongratulations to Miriah Meyer, who receive this year's University of Utah Distinguished Alumni Award. To celebrate the founding of the University of Utah in 1850, the Alumni Association each year recognizes alumni and honorary alumni who have excelled professionally, served the local and national communities, and supported the university in its mission.

A reception and dinner will be held Friday, March 3rd at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City. Tickets for the reception are available through the University of Utah Alumni Association.
scix adSCI Institute Technical Exchange (SCI X) was created to strengthen the interactions between the SCI Institute and other academic researchers, and also those companies conducting or wishing to conduct research with the University and inspire them to increase their collaborative efforts in research and new product development. 

SCI X is intended to provide its guests access to unique resources and expertise found within the SCI Institute, creating an expanded relationship between the SCI  Institute and our past, present and future academic and industry collaborators.

F1.mediumAn image of the ulnar-mammary syndrome, visualized with FluoRender, was chosen for the cover of Disease Models and Mechanisms. CIBC Collaborator, Gabrielle Kardon's article can be found here in it's entirety.

Development of a subset of forelimb muscles and their attachment sites requires the ulnar-mammary syndrome gene Tbx3.
Mary P. Colasanto, Shai Eyal, Payam Mohassel, Michael Bamshad, Carsten G. Bonnemann, Elazar Zelzer, Anne M. Moon, Gabrielle Kardon

vis miccaiWith fall conferences in full swing, the SCI Institute and our alumni had an amazing showing.

Alex Bigelow and SCI alumnus Roni Choudhury, who, along with Jeff Baumes from Kitware received the Visualization in Practice Best Paper Award at the IEEE Visualization Conference for their paper: Resonant Laboratory and Candela: Spreading your Visualization Ideas to the Masses. Chris Johnson was a participant in the panel: Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization, moderated by Min Chen, which won the best panel award at the IEEE Visualization Conference. The other panelists included Georges Grinstein, Jessie Kennedy, Tamara Munzner, and Melanie Tory. Finally, congratulations to SCI Alumnus Julien Tierny, who with Hamish Carr received the Scientific Visualization Best Paper Award at the IEEE Visualization Conference for their paper: Jacobi Fiber Surfaces for Bivariate Reeb Space Computation.

Yong Wan recieved best poster at BioVis for his display of the functionality and application of FluoRender.

Caleb Rottman, who was a finalist for the MICCAI 2016 Young Scientist Award for his paper: Diffeomorphic Density Registration in Thoracic Computed Tomography. Caleb Rottman, Ben Larson, Pouya Sabouri, Amit Sawant, Sarang Joshi. Also at MICCAI, recent SCI Alumnus Miaomiao Zhang (Ph.D. 2015), was another of the finalists for the Young Scientist Award for her paper: Low-Dimensional Statistics of Anatomical Variability Via Compact Representation of Image Deformations. Miaomiao Zhang, William Sandy Wells, Polina Golland.