May 2000 Newsletter

Image Processing Special Interest Group
http://image.nih.gov

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THANKS:

Many thanks to Terry Yoo(NLM) for his presentation on Insight.

Here is some follow up information from Terry:

To be a part of the insight announcement e-mail list send e-mail to
majordomo@public.kitware.com and in the body of your message put the text

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The temporary url for the Insight project is:
http://fluorite.nlm.nih.gov/~yoo/insight

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FYI:
Also, from Terry Yoo (NLM):
Please note that the Visible Human Project will be having its
third conference this October at the Natcher Center.  The conference
will be held October 5-6 here at NIH.  Abstracts are due 19 May 2000.
The URL for the CFP is http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/call2000.html

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NEW IPSIG RESOURCE (UPDATE):
 Our Software Resource page is still coming along well.  Rakesh
Mullick(DRD/CC) did a great job on the visualization section and we
are now ready to start on image segmentation software.  So if you know
of any, please email the information to John Ostuni (ostuni@helix.nih.gov).

Also, continue to send any visualization software information to
Rakesh (rmullick@iname.com) and image processing packages to John
Ostuni (sorry to those who have emailed the latter to me and don't see
them on the page yet -- they'll be there soon)

You can see our current list of software at (temporary location):
http://www-ldrr.cc.nih.gov/staff/ostuni/soft_res/nih_soft_resource.html

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FYI:
 Tom Zeffiro (Georgetown Univ., Neurology Dept.) will be presenting
the next MEDx tutorial, titled "Statistical Methods for fMRI data
analysis".  This will be held May 12 in Bldg. 12A Room B45.

Please try to sign up using CIT page:
http://training.cit.nih.gov/coursepic.asp?lname=000001999&cname=semi
so there is a record of your name.  Come even if you are put on
the waiting list (which you probably will be).  There is plenty of room.
Any questions call 402-6000.

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FYI:
 The MEDx support staff is moving from building 13, Room 3W13 to
building 10, Room B2S231.  This move should occur around the 3rd week
in May.  Their phone number 301 402-6000 should remain the same.

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FYI:
 Jeff Solomon (Sensor Systems) will be presenting some increased
capabilities of MEDx relating to exporting of DICOM (MR, CT and CR)
images and the pitching of these images to a dicom catcher.

Jeff will also be presenting a standalone dicomtool which will "wrap"
raw image data in order to convert them to dicom(MR).  One can then
save the dicom images and/or pitch them to a dicom catcher.

This talk will be of particular interest to anyone who is currently
thinking of ways to get non-dicom images into a PACS or into some
other type of dicom formatted storage.

This work was funded by CC/LDRR so it is available for free to the
NIH campus.

Date: 6/1
Time: 10am
Place: Large Radiology Conference Room (Bldg. 10, Room 1C520)
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FYI:
The NIH Fellows Committee asked us to distribute the following information:

>NIH Fellows Competition: FARE 2001 (May 1 -May 31, 2000)
>
>The seventh annual Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) 2001
>competition will again provide recognition for outstanding
>scientific research performed by intramural postdoctoral fellows.
>Winners of FARE will each receive a $1000 travel award to use for
>attending and presenting their work at a scientific meeting.
>
>Fellows who apply to FARE submit an abstract of their research,
>which will be evaluated anonymously on scientific merit,
>originality, experimental design and overall quality/presentation.
>The travel award must be used between October 1, 2000 and September
>30, 2001.
>
>The FARE 2001 competition is open to postdoctoral IRTA's, Visiting
>Fellows, and other fellows with less than 5 years total postdoctoral
>experience in the NIH intramural research program. In addition,
>pre-IRTA's performing their dissertation research at the NIH are
>also eligible to compete. Visiting Fellows/Scientists must not have
>been tenured at their home institute. Questions about eligibility
>should be addressed to your Institute's Scientific Director.
>
>Fellows are asked to submit their application, including abstract,
>electronically, from May 1 - May 31, 2000 (5:00 p.m., EST) via
><ftp://helix.nih.gov/felcom/index.html>. Those who cannot access the
>electronic application in their laboratory can find additional
>computers at the Scientific Computing Resource Center in Bldg. 12A,
>Rm 1018, the User Resource Center in Bldg.31, Rm B2B47, as well as
>the NIH Library in Bldg. 10. Winners will be announced by September
>2000.
>Information will also be available on the NIH Fellows Committee web
>site <ftp://helix.nih.gov/felcom/index.html>. Questions about FARE
>2001 may also be addressed to your Institute's Fellows Committee
>representative or to <FARE2001@nih.gov>.

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PLEASE UPDATE!
As most of you know, there is a database of all image processing
researchers at our web site (http://image.nih.gov/Research.html).
This site is viewed by many people both inside and outside of NIH.  In
fact, many people here have gotten their jobs by using this database
to find the right people to contact.

When you get a chance, please look at your entry and update if it is
out of date (http://image.nih.gov/About.html).
If you don't have an entry and are doing image processing on the NIH campus
please submit an entry through our website.

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