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Ben Ellis and Jeff Weiss receive "2010 Skalak Best Paper" award from JBE
Congratulations to Nicholas Drury, Ben Ellis, Jeff Weiss, Pat McMahon and Richard Debski who's paper: N.J. Drury, B.J. Ellis, J.A. Weiss, P.J. McMahon, R.E. Debski. “The impact of glenoid labrum thickness and modulus on labrum and glenohumeral capsule function,” In Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 132, No. 12, Note: Awarded 2010 Skalak Best Paper!, pp. 121003--121010. 2010. DOI: 10.1115/1.4002622
has been awarded "2010 Skalak Best Paper" by the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering Honors committee. This honor is awarded to the best paper of the year as determined by reviewer rankings.
"Best Paper" Awarded at ACM Eurographics Symposium
Congratulations to Linh Ha, Jens Krüger, Joao Comba, Sarang Joshi, and Claudio Silva who's paper:Linh K. Ha, Jens Krüger, Joao Comba, Sarang Joshi, Cláudio T. Silva. "Optimal Multi-Image Processing Streaming Framework on Parallel Heterogeneous Systems", Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2011.
received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2011.
Guido Gerig Coauthor on Neuroimage Top Cited Paper
The journal NeuroImage recently released it's list of the top ten most cited articles over the last 5 years. On it was a paper co-authored by Dr. Gerig entitled "User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: Significantly improved efficiency and reliability". It has been cited 170 times! (Scopus statistics) The paper describes the use of a free software tool called itk-SNAP for efficient segmentation of 3D volumetric image data via 3D snakes. See: NeuroImage Top Cited Articles. Yushkevich, P.A.; Piven, J.; Hazlett, H.C.; Smith, R.G.; Ho, S.; Gee, J.C.; Gerig, G. "User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: Significantly improved efficiency and reliability" NeuroImage, Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 1116-1128, 2006.
Best of the Journal Issue Awarded for Brain Population Analysis Paper
Congratulations to Samuel Gerber, Tolga Tasdizen, P. Thomas Fletcher, Sarang Joshi, Ross Whitaker whose paper received the MICCAI 2010 Best of the Journal Issue Award, which selects the best paper among the top conference papers appearing in a special issue of the Journal of Medical Image Analysis (citation below). The MICCAI conferences hosts several hundred papers with an acceptance rate of below 30%, so it is quite an honor.S. Gerber, T. Tasdizen, P.T. Fletcher, S. Joshi, R.T. Whitaker, and the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). “Manifold modeling for brain population analysis,” In Medical Image Analysis, Special Issue on the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009, Vol. 14, No. 5, Note: Awarded MICCAI 2010, Best of the Journal Issue Award, pp. 643--653. 2010.
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"Best Paper in Science Track" Awarded for Uintah Paper at Teragrid 2010
Congratulations to Justin Luitjens, Qingyu Meng, and Martin Berzins whose paper received the Best Paper Award in the Science Track at the 2010 Teragrid Conference in Pittsburgh, August 2-5th 2010: M. Berzins, J. Luitjens, Q. Meng, T. Harman, C.A. Wight, J.R. Peterson. “Uintah - A Scalable Framework for Hazard Analysis,” In Proceedings of the Teragrid 2010 Conference, pp. (accepted). 2010.
Best of the Journal Issue Awarded for Brain Population Analysis Paper
Congratulations to Samuel Gerber, Tolga Tasdizen, P. Thomas Fletcher, Sarang Joshi, Ross Whitaker whose paper received the MICCAI 2010 Best of the Journal Issue Award, which selects the best paper among the top conference papers appearing in a special issue of the Journal of Medical Image Analysis (citation below). The MICCAI conferences hosts several hundred papers with an acceptance rate of below 30%, so it is quite an honor.
Best Paper at Eurographics 2010
Congratulations to Claudio Silva, Erik Anderson, Emanuele Santos, and Juliana Freire who received the "Best Paper" award at EUROGRAPHICS 2010 for: C. Silva, E. Anderson, E. Santos, J. Freire. "Using VisTrails and Provenance for Teaching Scientific Visualization," In EUROGRAPHICS 2010 Educator Program, 2010.
Best Paper at Pacific Vis 2010
Congratulations to SCI graduate student Carson Brownlee who was awarded "Best Paper" at IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010 for:C. Brownlee, V. Pegoraro, S. Shankar, P. McCormick, C. Hansen "Physically-Based Interactive Schlieren Flow Visualization", Proceedings of Pacific Vis 2010.
Lowell Edgar wins 1st Prize in Student Presentation Competition at CMBBE 2010
SCI/MRL Lab graduate student Lowell Edgar received 1st prize in the Student Presentation Competition for his research presentation at the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering conference this last week in Valencia, Spain. The award includes 500 Euros.
Tom Fletcher and Sarang Joshi paper awarded "most cited" by Signal Processing
The international journal Signal Processing has announced its award for the 2010 Signal Processing most cited paper goes to Riemannian Geometry for the Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Data” by Drs. Tom Fletcher and Sarang Joshi. This distinction is based solely on the highest number of cites, excluding self-citations, received by the end of 2009 for all articles published in the journal between the years 2007–2009 as reported by SCOPUS reports (www.scopus.com).P.T. Fletcher, S. Joshi. “Riemannian Geometry for the Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Data,” In Signal Processing, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 250--262. February, 2007.
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
Four SCI faculty members, Chuck Hansen, Chris Johnson, Valerio Pascucci, and Claudio Silva contributed a chapter on visualization for data-intensive science in the recently released book The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery.