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Utah NCRR Future Plans: Discussion

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New Personnel Information

Carsten Wolters (SCI Postdoc)Frank Sachse (BE Faculty)Mike Kirby (CS Faculty)Martin Berzins (CS Faculty)Jeff Weiss (BE Faculty)Claudio Silva (CS Faculty)Ed Hsu (BE/Radiology Faculty)New SCI/BE/Radiology Faculty Hire

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Plans: Now Until Feb 1

Create and distribute BioImage PowerApp (within 1 to 2 months)

Work with collaborators to generate additional success stories

Have a usability consultant evaluate BioPSE

Write an amazingly good renewal proposal

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Plans: Feb 1 Until Site Visit

Work with current and new collaborators to generate additional success stories

Additional PowerApps?Hold EAB Meeting approximately 2

weeks prior to the site visit (May or June?)

Create great site visit presentations

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Future and Strategic Planning

To better reflect the growth in scope and users of our Center, we would like to discuss:

Broadening the mission of our Center

Renaming our CenterStrategies for our 2005 renewal

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Proposed New Center Model

Modeling

SimulationVisualization

Imaging and Analysis

BioPSE

ITK,Slicer,etc.

Cubit,Tetra,etc.

VTK,IDL,etc.

Cardio Wave,

EEGLab,Brainstom,NeuroFEM

etc.

CCA,Loni,etc

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Center Evolution

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Center Roadmap

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Scope of the New CenterBiomedical Science Research:• Build strong research collaborations based upon important biomedical

problems that we discussed (Heart, Brain, Tumor). • Continue to do cutting edge bioelectric/biomagnetic field research• Extend to new biomedical research areas (Cell, Biomechanical, Imaging, etc.)Technology Research:• Adding a strong "image processing and quantitative analysis" focus (based on

needs of scientific applications).• Extending our PSE to support distributed computing and grid environments

with SCIRun2. This will support some of the more computationally bleeding-edge scientists we work with. As importantly, this will provide a software architecture that the other P41s need of (e.g. McCulloch, Rosen, Kikinis, Toga, BIRN, etc).

• Adding infrastructure to support the "scientific data management" needs of the applications we are targeting: databasing, streamed (and out-of-core) processing, dataflow caching, annotations, tagging results with process-log metadata .

• Providing development tools to facilitate the creation of PowerApps, and to ease of the process of bridging to third-party simulation tools.

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Proposed Center Organization Chart

External Advisory Board

Technical Manager

( D. Weinstein, Ph.D.)Collaborators

Directors(C. Johnson and

R. MacLeod)

ModelingResearch

(R. MacLeod, Ph.D.)

VisualizationResearch

(C. Johnson. Ph.D.)

ImagingResearch

(R. Whitaker, Ph.D.)

PSEResearch

(S. Parker, Ph.D.)

SoftwareEngineering

(D. De St. Germain)

Administrator(R. Potts)

MediaSpecialist(N. Galli)

Systems(R. Coffey)

AssociateDirector

(G. Jones, Ph.D. )

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Strategic Planning Discussion

Rename the Center to?• Center for Biomedical Imaging, Modeling, and

Visualization• Center for Biomedical Imaging and

Visualization Software• ??Interaction with NCBC Proposal• Center for Integrated Biomedical Software

Systems• Part of two successful NCBC proposals

(Harvard and UCLA)