National
e-Science
Centre
eSI Visitor Seminar: "From Placenta to the Brain:
Image Informatics Challenges and Experiences"
e-Science Institute 18th May 2006
Dr Tony Pan presented work that he is involved with at Ohio State
University in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. This ranged
from image registration for 3D reconstruction from sections through to
automated segmentation for recognition of complex boundaries in the
mouse placenta. There was a large audience and lively discussion
throughout.
The seminar was the culmination of a visit to eSI to discuss possible
collaboration with the DGEMap group at the eSI and the Mouse Atlas
group at the MRC Human Genetics Unit. This has resulted in an
ongoing discussion and exchange of data and technologies. Some of
the GRID-based image access and visualisation capabilities of OSU
will be applied to the mouse embryo data from Edinburgh, and the
sophisticated reconstruction techniques developed at the HGU are
being applied to the OSU data. The visit has proved valuable to both
sides.
Richard Baldock