Plans and Goals

On this page the members of the VRL record and refine their goals for the current semester. This is a living document in which dhl will provide feedback. See the bottom of the page for links to past plans & goals documents.

Current Schedule

Meetings are on Tuesdays.

• 1:50 - jadrian
• 2:00 - wenjin
• 2:10 - eni
• 2:20 - jadrian
• 2:30 - bb
• 2:40 - dtr
• 2:50 - trevor
• 3:00 - cad
• 3:10 - steve
• 3:20 - radu

Current Plans and Goals (Spring '10)

Brad

Projects

• Support the ongoing projects including collaborators. Active projects are wrist, brain, adviser, and protein.

• Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.

• Contribute to the design and development of the new cave. This includes integrating g3d, vrpn and hosting vrg3d. Once the software is running simplify the configuration and provide a quick start path for student projects.

• Set up a distribution of diffusion imaging data.

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, camino, dtk, vrpn, glut, and sdl.

• Finish extending 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.

• Upgrade migrated Linux code to work with gcc 4.3.

• Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.

• Finish integrating the new version of the Nag libraries.

Knowledge

• Learn more about the cave; particularly vrg3d software development.

• Meet (SciVis talk) with students to address any integration issues.

• Learn how to manage a project using Source Forge.

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David

1. get diffusion normals, one library, and one executable distributed
2. wrist proposal submission (check with Trey?)
3. support 5 phd students' + trevor's progress
4. write a plan for HCI modeling work
5. minimize professional service

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Steve

1. Staying on track for candidacy
   1. Complete programming comp (late January)
   2. Complete research comp proposal and presentation to committee (mid April)
   3. Do well in courses
2. Research goals
   1. Explore current research in HCI related to creativity, and user interaction modeling
   2. Identify significant, well-scoped research project in this area for the research comp proposal
   3. Develop research skills, including paper reading/analysis and learning to communicate effectively
3. Other academic goals
   1. Work on collaboration skills (finding and communicating with colleagues in or outside of CS)
   2. Work on time management and project planning
   3. Learn what working with DHL is like, his expectations, etc.
   4. Plan for the summer

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Wenjin

1. Submit to MICCAI + good collaboration with Matt
2. Prepare histology data - do homework about the right path to choose, acquire, and prepare the tissue
3. Derive and test optimal double-PGSE imaging on Brown 3T scanner
4. Propose by 10/15
5. Prepare for MRM/TMI journal submission

Current Plans and Goals (Fall '09)

Çağatay

1. Incorporate feedback from the committee into the proposal
2. Start working realizing the finalized proposal.
3. Submit the histogram embedding work to ISMRM.
4. Submit the surface deformation work to SIGGRAPH.

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Andy

1. mri/wrist
   1. tools
      1. registration, classification, distance-field calculation, bone proximity calc.
      2. graphical visualization/verification?
   2. modeling?
2. $G (nightly tests, architecture, outside test-case = ADVISER)
3. future funding candidates
   1. volume data visualization/analysis
   2. flow visualization w/ leopold/GK
   3. other?

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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.

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Çağatay

1. Incorporate feedback from the committee into the proposal
2. Start working realizing the finalized proposal.
3. Submit the histogram embedding work to ISMRM.
4. Submit the surface deformation work to SIGGRAPH.

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David

1. figure out software and data dissemination and get implemented with bb's help [some progress, more next semester]
2. wrist proposal submission [not sure where this went with Trey]
3. harvard stuff moving; read Janeway? [good meeting in Boston]
4. support 6 phd students' progress [all proposals done!]
5. write a plan for HCI modeling work (draft by 10/23, rev by 11/20) [not enough structure]
6. minimize professional service [less successful than hoped]
7. vis2011 sited, early committee defined after Vis by 10/16 [contract signed, delaying committee]

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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

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Jadrian

Initial thesis proposal, submitted 2009-06-22

1. Incorporate committee's comments into my proposal by 2009-10-15
   • Revision complete 2009-10-15
2. Make a list of papers to spawn from the proposal by 2009-10-15
   • Incomplete
3. 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
4. Finish clustering code sufficient for an initial version of the backsolving system
   • Incomplete
5. 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
6. 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
7. Take one HARDI scan by 2009-11-24
   • No new scan was acquired this fall, pending a decision about scan parameters
8. 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

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Radu

1. Deploy existing visualization tools by Oct 15 (in Labs and in CVS - Protein-version2, Clustering apps)
2. Migrate BrainApp functionality to the new framework by Nov 1 (help from Cagatay and Eni)
3. Test usefulness of the QT vis framework (on Cagatay); if useful deploy by Nov 1
4. Advance Immgen
   1. Write report for next year
   2. Daphne-data vis prototype by Nov 1
   3. Genome-google maps operation by Oct1
   4. Broad display operational
   5. Paper on analyzing and disseminating large visualizations?
5. Gather vis tools usage data
6. Proposal
   1. Gather, read and summarize cogsci and linked visualization literature
7. 2D interaction on stream-tubes study? Paper?
8. Successful Vis talk
9. Proposal is here

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Trevor

1. Research comps!
2. Review and address EuroVis reviews for cell paper.
   1. Submit to PacVis?
3. Research comps work --> i3d submission.
4. Narrow long term focus.
5. Foster collaborations:
   1. Paul Kulesa
   2. Trey Crisco
   3. Sharon Swartz
6. Finish course requirements.

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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

Past Plans and Goals

• Summer '09
• Spring '09
• Fall '08
• Summer '08