OBJECTIVE
Diffusion Weighted Magnetic
Resonance Imaging: From
Measurements to Applications
This workshop is a sequel to the
Neuroimaging, DTI and Tractography
workshop held at KCK, USM, Kota
Bharu, on 10th Dec 2011 which has has
sparked great interest and several
possible projects were named during
the first workshop. This enthusiasm has
prompted us to conduct the second indepth workshop to learn more details
of DWI and Tractography and
collectively work on a joint project
proposal, taking advantage of the
expertise form the visitors. Thus this
workshop has the following objectives:.
CONTACT
Prof. Mandava Rajeswari
School of Computer Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia
11800 Minden, Penang, MALAYSIA.
Tel: +604-6532157
Fax:+604-6573335
E-mail :mandava@cs.usm.my
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To gain further insights into
enhancing the knowledge of the
fundamentals, current research
trends and relating these to the
research interests and identified
projects applications, at USM.
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To identify the synergy between
the selected projects and start
working on the proposals to form a
research cluster project.
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To start putting in the pieces
together for a long term roadmap
in this area of research.
Date : 6th to 7th January 2012
Venue : Bilik Seminar
INFORMM,
USM, Penang
Organizers:
School of Computer Sciences, USM
http://endeavor.cs.usm.my/
NEUROIMAGING
www.usm.my
DWI & TRACTOGRAPHY
PROGRAM
BART TER HAAR ROMENY
PROF. WAN AHMAD KAMIL
Wan Ahmad Kamil has received his PhD in Solid State Physics from the
6th January 2012
Bart ter Haar Romeny (1952) is a full professor at Eindhoven University of
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Technology, the Netherlands, heading the Biomedical Image Analysis (BMIA)
group in the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 2001. He received
the MSc degree in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology in
1978, and acquired his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1983 in biophysics.
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Subsequently, he became principal physicist of the Utrecht University Hospital
Radiology Department (1986-1989) and project leader of the Dutch PACS
project. He was co-founder and associate professor at the Image Sciences
Institute (ISI) of Utrecht University (1989-2001).
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His research interests include quantitative medical image analysis, its physical
foundations and clinical applications. His interests are in particular the
mathematical modeling of the brain (visual perception) and applying this
knowledge in operational computer-aided diagnosis systems. He author of over
90 refereed journal papers, 8 books and book chapters, 75 refereed
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proceedings contributions and holds 2 patents. He is an active teacher (best
BME MSc teacher award 2008, 2009,2011).
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DR. VESNA PRCKOVSKA
Vesna Prčkovska was born on 23-09-1982 in Bitola, Macedonia. She studied
5 year engineering studies (MSc equivalent) in computer science, informatics
and control systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University Ss
Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia. In 2006 she graduated with honors.
From July 2006 she started her PhD research in the Biomedical Image
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interests are study of functional connectivity networks using neuroimaging
fMRI, network theory and computational modeling in order to get a deeper
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Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is currently a lecturer in
the Department of Radiology, School of Medical Sciences, USM and also
the Head of Radiological Sciences Cluster of AMDI, USM. In 1994 he
received the European Union Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellowship award to
work on low temperature phonons in ultra high magnetic field at the
University of Essex. Wan Ahmad Kamil
is the President of Malaysian
Association of Medical Physics and is also a member of the Reactor
Interest Group, Agensi Nuklear Malaysia as well as the National Working
Group on Non-ionizing Radiation. His current research interests include
fMRI, MR Spectroscopy, Arterial Spin Labeling, Magnetoencephalography,
Physics of Medical Imaging, Image fusion, and general ionizing and nonionizing radiation. Wan Ahmad Kamil is currently supervising several
postgraduate students in USM and UTM and a research group member in
several eScience, USM short term, FRGS and RU grants. He has copublished several papers in the areas mentioned.
ASSOC. PROF. DR. ZAMZURI
Associate Professor Dr. Zamzuri Bin Idris is a Neurosurgeon who was a
fellow in Functional and Endoscopic Neurosurgery at Universitair Ziekenhuis,
Gent Belgium. He is currently a member of several professional organisations
Diffusion in crossing fibers. How can we identify crossing
fibers. Different techniques for multiple fiber
reconstruction.
Dr. Vesna Prckovska
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d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer - IDIBAPS. Her research
as major depressive disorder and bi-polar disorder.
Suitable mathematical tools for DWI data.
order
tensors. High order tensors. Spherical Harmonics.
Prof. Bart ter Haar Romeny
Lunch
Introduction to neuroanatomy. Major fiber bundles in
the brain. Where to expect crossings? Short U-fibers.
Structural connectivity through fibers.
Assoc. Porf. Dr. Zamzuri bin Idris
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of high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data. She developed parts
understanding of the human brain connectome applied to brain diseases such
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University of Technology. Her research focus was processing and visualization
position of research associate at the Neuroimmunology Group of the Institut
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Diffusion as a probe of tissue structure. Diffusion in
single fiber. Diffusion tensor imaging model. Diffusion
Tractography
Dr. Vesna Prckovska
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Analysis group of the department of Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven
of the visualization tool for DTI and HARDI data. Currently she is holding the
Welcome and introduction
Prof. Rosni Abdullah, Dean School of Computer
Sciences, USM
Introduction to MRI physics. Basic Spin echo sequence,
PGSE sequence used in DWI, K-space, Q-space. b-value
selection, resolution and coordinate systems.
Prof. Wan Ahmad Kamil, IPPT, KCK, USM
Visualization techniques for DWI data. Visualization of
glyphs and fibers in DTI. Visualization techniques for
HARDI. Use of GPU programming for improving
rendering speed.
Dr. Tim Peeters
Contextual operators for DTI and HARDI
Prof. Bart ter Haar Romeny
including, the Neurosurgical Association Malaysia, Malaysian Society of
Neurosciences, European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
and Belgian Neurological Surgery Society. His key Research interests include
Endoscopic Skull Base and Brain Neurosurgery, Functional and Imaging
Neurosurgery, Head Injury, Radiosurgery and Animal Brain Research
DR.TIM PEETERS
Dr. Tim Peeters is a computer scientist specialized in medical visualization and
computer graphics. He acquired his MSc degree at the Computer Science
department of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2004 in the Visualization
group of Prof. Jarke J. van Wijk. In 2005 he started his PhD project in the
Biomedical Image Analysis group of Prof. Bart ter Haar Romeny at Eindhoven
University of Technology under supervision of Dr. Anna Vilanova. In 2009 he
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successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "GPU-based Visualization
Techniques for the Interactive Exploration of Diffusion MRI Data", and after that
Panel discussion. Discuss proposed projects.
(Academic Staff only)
he worked for one more year as a PostDoc / Scientific programmer in the
Lunch
Canonical Ltd. to improve the user experience of Ubuntu Linux.
Biomedical Image Analysis group. From January 2012 he will work for
.