Seminar
Medical Imaging, Medical Modelling and Simulation - A Cook's Tour
Date: Thursday 3rd May
Commencing: 11:00 am
Venue: Theatre 2, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street, Carlton
Presented by: Dr Ed Kazmierczak
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne
This talk is an introduction to some of the modeling methods, analysis techniques and applications of medical mages. Medical imaging has moved beyond simply visually inspecting anatomical structures. It is now a powerful technique for morphometry, surgical planning, simulation and training, and for tracking the progress of disease.
The talk is an introduction to the area of medical imaging, medical modelling and surgical simulation. The discipline of medical imaging is quite broad and draws upon many other disciplines such as radiology, image processing, physics, geometry and approximation theory to name but a few.
This talk does not attempt to be exhaustive, but reviews some of the major ideas in modeling, analyzing and utilizing medical images. In particular we review the uses of deformable models including snakes, balloons and deformable meshes and the use of shape models including Atlas based segmentation.
Our major interest in MUVES is in surgical simulation so we conclude this talk by exploring some of the issues of models in applications where haptic (touch) feedback is required.
Presentation slides [PDF, 288 KB]