Plans and Goals/Fall 2009
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Plans and Goals (Fall '09)
Andy
- mri/wrist
- tools
- registration, classification, distance-field calculation, bone proximity calc.
- graphical visualization/verification?
- modeling?
- tools
- $G (nightly tests, architecture, outside test-case = ADVISER)
- future funding candidates
- volume data visualization/analysis
- flow visualization w/ leopold/GK
- other?
Brad
Projects
- Support the ongoing projects including collaborators. Active projects are wrist, brainapp, adviser, and protein.
- Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.
- Contribute to the design of the new cave.
Infrastructure
- Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.
- Continue setting up external software for students to use. Current imported packages are: blitz, cg, g3d, qt, and xerces
- Extend make files for local installs and kits for source and binary distributions.
- Continue to make improvements to the make files so they are easier to use and to provide Windows support.
- Upgrade migrated Linux code to work with gcc 4.3.
- Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.
- Integrate the new version of the Nag libraries.
Knowledge
- Learn more about the cave; particularly software development.
- Meet (SciVis talk) with students to address any integration issues.
Çağatay
- Incorporate feedback from the committee into the proposal
- Start working realizing the finalized proposal.
- Submit the histogram embedding work to ISMRM.
- Submit the surface deformation work to SIGGRAPH.
David
- figure out software and data dissemination and get implemented with bb's help [some progress, more next semester]
- wrist proposal submission [not sure where this went with Trey]
- harvard stuff moving; read Janeway? [good meeting in Boston]
- support 6 phd students' progress [all proposals done!]
- write a plan for HCI modeling work (draft by 10/23, rev by 11/20) [not enough structure]
- minimize professional service [less successful than hoped]
- vis2011 sited, early committee defined after Vis by 10/16 [contract signed, delaying committee]
Eni
- submit tract integrity vs. cognitive tests abstract and histograms abstract to ismrm
- possibly write a paper on the wrist comparison study (old/new subjects)
- while working on different wrist problems, think of a problem I might want to focus on
- do well in the courses I'm taking
Jadrian
Initial thesis proposal, submitted 2009-06-22
- Incorporate committee's comments into my proposal by 2009-10-15
- Revision complete 2009-10-15
- Make a list of papers to spawn from the proposal by 2009-10-15
- Incomplete
- Decide with dhl on the role of animal models in the proposal
- Histological "wetwork" will play an important role in the research; significant planning and collaboration-building took place this semester
- Finish clustering code sufficient for an initial version of the backsolving system
- Incomplete
- Find or build implementations of a more sophisticated tractography technique (Q-ball or Gordon's multi-tensor)
- DTK & Trackvis installed and working with current data as of 2009-11-04
- Work with Ed Walsh, dhl, and wzhou to settle on some HARDI parameters
- Scan parameters have not been decided but ongoing work with Steve's group is teaching us all more about parameter tradeoffs
- Take one HARDI scan by 2009-11-24
- No new scan was acquired this fall, pending a decision about scan parameters
- Get DifSim (the MCell-based UCSD diffusion simulator) installed and working here
- Not installed due to ongoing license issues, but I'm in communication with the developers and confident that it'll work out
Radu
- Deploy existing visualization tools by Oct 15 (in Labs and in CVS - Protein-version2, Clustering apps)
- Migrate BrainApp functionality to the new framework by Nov 1 (help from Cagatay and Eni)
- Test usefulness of the QT vis framework (on Cagatay); if useful deploy by Nov 1
- Advance Immgen
- Write report for next year
- Daphne-data vis prototype by Nov 1
- Genome-google maps operation by Oct1
- Broad display operational
- Paper on analyzing and disseminating large visualizations?
- Gather vis tools usage data
- Proposal
- Gather, read and summarize cogsci and linked visualization literature
- 2D interaction on stream-tubes study? Paper?
- Successful Vis talk
- Proposal is here
Trevor
- Research comps!
- Review and address EuroVis reviews for cell paper.
- Submit to PacVis?
- Research comps work --> i3d submission.
- Narrow long term focus.
- Foster collaborations:
- Paul Kulesa
- Trey Crisco
- Sharon Swartz
- Finish course requirements.
Wenjin
- Finalize Proposal: incorporate feedback from committee in NIH format
- Survive NEUR 1650
- Analytical model tested on simulation data to accomplish 1-2 of the following (based on current limitations):
- estimate axon parameter for unknown fiber direction
- recover small axon radii < 4 micrometer
- estimation with clinically achievable acquisitions
- build and evaluate 4-compartment model with water exchange vs. 2-compartment
- Derive and test optimal imaging parameters on Brown 3T scanner
- submit to ISMRM (Nov. 10th) or MICCAI in March
- prepare for MRM/TMI journal submission
Steve
Course work
- Explore courses that may be relevant to research interests, or may help me think more outside-the-box
- Use project classes to explore interests in graphics, vis, hci
Research
- Draft R&R plan for spring semester by 11/15
- Start thinking about research comp ideas and proposal by 11/15
- Contribute to the VRL however I can
- Search through past ideas/projects worth investigating more by 10/1
- Online raytracing with voronoi diagrams?
- Interfaces that learn?
Personal
- Get adjusted to Brown, Providence, graduate school
- Work on time management, organization
- Pass programming comp in January