View source for Algorithms:Core1Visit May06

== Logistics ==

* Dates: May 23-24 2006
* Location: UNC Sitterson Hall, 201 South Columbia, Room SN 115 ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=100+Marriott+Way,+Chapel+Hill,+NC+27517&daddr=201+S+Columbia+St,+Chapel+Hill,+NC+27514&ll=35.905876,-79.031696&spn=0.048387,0.06772&om=1 Map from hotel])
* Hotel: Courtyard Marriott, 100 Marriott Way, Chapel Hill, NC
** $119/night discount rate, Discount code: NAMIC meeting
** Rate guaranteed if reservation is made by April 21st, Afterwards they'll try to honor this rate, but it's not guaranteed.
** With a meeting discount, it's best to call for reservations (919) 883-0700 rather than making them online.
* Transportation from Airport:
** Taxi ride 30-35 USD
* There is very limited parking on campus for visitors (due to construction on the visitor lots), so car rental is not necessarily encouraged.
* [http://www.cs.unc.edu/~keyser/restaurants.html Restaurant Guide] to Chapel Hill downtown (status 1999, needs updating, but most of the restaurants are still around) [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=restaurants+&near=201+S+Columbia+St+Chapel+Hill+NC+27514&ll=35.911942,-79.054399&spn=0.006048,0.008465&om=1 A google search template for restaurants.]

=== Transportation from Downtown Chapel Hill to Hotel ===

* In the evening there is public transportation from downtown Chapel Hill to a bustop close to the Courtyard Marriot. The T/G rout bus drives at 7:19pm, 8:54pm, and 10:29pm from downtown Chapel Hill to NC 54 Parking lot, right next to the Marriot (2 minute walk). [http://townhall.townofchapelhill.org/transit/routes/t_g_evenings.html Bus Details]
* Additionally taxi transportation is affordable and located in downtown Chapel Hill: Tar Heel Taxi Inc (919) 933-1255; Airport Taxi (919) 942-4598; Airport & Intown Taxi(919) 942-4492

Questions? Please contact Delphine Bull (bull@cs.unc.edu).

== Agenda: Tuesday, May 23 ==

* 8.30 am: Pickup at hotel Marriott and transportation to Sitterson Hall
* 9:00-9:30am Introduction and discussion of agenda (Ross W)

* Segmentation and Shape Analysis - [[Algorithms:Core1Visit_May06:Shape|Notes]]
** 9:30 am "Enhanced Correspondence and Statistics for Structural Shape Analysis" (Martin S) [[Media:6_05_NAMICShapeUNC.ppt| Slides]]
** 10:00am "Building Shape Prior Models for Segmentation" (Killian P) [[Media:Pohl-NAMIC-UNC-06-public.pdf| Slides ]]
* 10:30 - 11:00 am Break

* ** 11:00am "A Nonparametric Approach to Shape Correspondence" (Ross W) [[Media:6_05_NAMICShapeUtah.ppt| Slides]]
** 11:30am Shape Discussion (Martin and Ross)

* 12:00pm Lunch (Lunch Chapel Hill downtown on your own, 10' walk)

* ** 1:30pm Shape Discussion (cont)

* Functional MRI
** 2:00pm "Some Introductory Remarks on fMRI" [[Media:Core1-fMRI.ppt| Slides]] (Polina G)
** 2:15pm "Spatial Regularization of fMRI activation" [[Media:Namic_core1_mtg_052306.ppt| Slides]] (Wanmei Ou)
** 2:45pm "Open problems in fMRI" [[Media:NAMIC_UNC_fMRI_2006_for_upload.ppt| Slides]](Bruce F)
** Question to be discussed:
*** Can and should Core 1 be more involved in fMRI?
*** How will NAMIC engage fMRI researchers?

* 3:15pm Publishing in NAMIC
** Questions to be discussed:
*** What is our status? (E.g. generate an ad hoc list of ongoing projects and plans to publish them.)
*** How can we improve Core 1/Core 3 publishing?

(E.g. generate a list of promising Core 3 projects and potential avenues for publication) What will we do with core 3 for its last year of this generation. What will we do with the next generation of core 3

* 4:00-5:30 Core 2 Interactions [[Algorithms:Core1Visit_May06:Core2|Notes]]
** "Slicer 3 Update for Core 1" [[Media:Slicer3-Core1-2006-05-23.ppt| Slides]] (Steve P)

* Core 2 Discussion
** Questions to be discussed:
*** What are the ways to interact with Core 2?
*** How should code get transferred/migrated in ITK?
*** How should applications get built?
*** How can we get applications in the hands of users?

* Open Items
** Registration (intra, inter-subject, sMRI, DTI, tensors, motion correction etc.)

== Agenda: Wednesday, May 24 ==

* 8.30 am: Pickup at hotel Marriott and transportation to Sitterson Hall
* Diffusion Tensor Imaging [[Algorithms:Core1Visit_May24:DTI|Notes]]
** 9:00am "Correspondence in DTI via unbiased atlas-building" (Casey G) [[Media:Dti-atlas-building.pdf| Slides]]
** 9:30am "Filtering of DW and DT Images" (Tom F) [[Media:Core1-DTI-filtering.ppt| Slides]]
** 10:00am "Using MRI to link microstructure and macrostructure" [[Media:NAMIC_UNC_2006_for_upload.pdf| Slides ]](Bruce F)

* 10:30am Break

* Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Cont).
** 11:00 am "Finsler Geometry and DTI Tractography" [[Media:Namic.core1.meeting.may24.tannenbaum.ppt| Slides]] (Allen T)
** 11:30 am "White Matter Analysis Through Clustering of DTI data" [[Media:Core1_MIT_DTI.ppt| Slides ]] (Polina G)

* 12:00pm Lunch (Lunch Chapel Hill downtown on your own, 10' walk)

* 1:30pm DTI Discussion (Guido and Allen)
** Questions to be discussed:

* 2:30pm Evaluating NAMIC Core 1
** Questions to be discussed:
*** How will we evaluate ourselves (at renewal time)?
*** How will this standard sit with our evaluators?
*** How will we fare agains this standard?
*** How can we make sure we succeed?

== Background and Preparation ==

== Topics ==

* Software needs of the NAMIC toolkit
* Algorithmic issue/needs relevant to Core 3
* Special sessions on Shape Analysis, fMRI, DTI
* Update on Slicer 3
* Metrics for success (to be used in renewal considerations)
* Core 1 input into the NAMIC Kit
* Core 1 contributions to training core
* Planning for Project Week (?)

== Attendees ==

If you are interested in attending this week, please note your name here (in general 2-4 people per Core 1 group)

# Guido Gerig, UNC
# Martin Styner, UNC
# Ipek Oguz, UNC
# Casey Goodlett, UNC
# Ross Whitaker, Utah
# John Melonakos, GT/GE
# Simon Warfield, HMS
# Steve Pieper
# Wanmei Ou, MIT
# Polina Golland, MIT
# Allen Tannenbaum, GT
# Bryce Kim, MIT
# Sandy Wells, MIT/BWH
# Kilian Pohl, MIT/BWH
# Bruce Fischl, MGH
# Tom Fletcher, Utah
# Jim Miller, GE Research
# Dennis Jen, MGH