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|name = Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

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|research_field = [[Scientific visualization]], [[High performance computing]], [[Image analysis]]

|director = [[Christopher RDr. Johnson | ChrisManish Johnson]]Parashar

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|affiliations = [[University of Utah School of Computing]]<br/>[[University of Utah School of Medicine]]<br/>[[University of Utah College of Engineering]]

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The '''Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute''' is a permanent [[research institute]] at the [[University of Utah]] that focuses on the development of new [[scientific computing]] and [[scientific visualization|visualization]] techniques, tools, and systems with primary applications to [[biomedical engineering]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute – Home|url=http://www.sci.utah.edu/home.html|access-date=2013-04-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Lipson|first1=Hod|last2=Kurman|first2=Melba|title=Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing|date=2013|publisher=Wiley|___location=Indianapolis, IN|isbn=978-1118350638|page=121}}</ref> The SCI Institute is noted worldwide in the [[visualization (graphics)|visualization]] community for contributions by faculty, alumni, and staff.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shneiderman|first1=Ben|title=The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations|publisher=Oxford University Press|___location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-875883-9|pages=320}}</ref> Faculty are associated primarily with the [[University of Utah School of Computing|School of Computing]], Department of Bioengineering, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with auxiliary faculty in the [[University of Utah Medical School|Medical School]] and [[University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning|School of Architecture]].

The '''Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute''' is one of eight permanent [[research institute | research institutes]] at the [[University of Utah]]. Faculty are associated primarily with the [[University of Utah School of Computing | School of Computing]], Department of Bioengineering, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research focuses include the development of new [[scientific computing]] techniques, tools, and systems with applications to various fields, including [[high performance computing]], [[scientific visualization]], [[image analysis]], [[computational biology]], [[data science]], and [[graphics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute – Home|url=http://www.sci.utah.edu/home.html|accessdate=2013-04-16}}</ref>

==History==

The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute started in 1992 as a research group in the [[University of Utah School of Computing]] by [[Christopher R. Johnson|Chris Johnson]] and Rob MacLeod. In 1994 this group became the Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging, and in 2000 the name was changed to the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. In 2007, the SCI Institute was awarded funding from [[USTAR]] to recruit more faculty in medical imaging technology. The SCI Institute was recognized as an [[Nvidia|NVIDIA]] [[CUDA]] Center of Excellence in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Humber|first1=Andrew|title=NVIDIA Recognizes University Of Utah As A Cuda Center Of Excellence {{!}} NVIDIA|url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1217508281856.html|publisher=NVIDIA|accessdateaccess-date=8 April 2017|language=en-us|date=31 July 2008}}</ref> In 2011, [[USTAR]] funding allowed faculty recruitment for genomic [[signal processing]] and information visualization. in 2014, [[Intel]] partnered with the SCI Institute to form the Intel Parallel Computing Center for Scientific Rendering to research and develop large scale and in situ visualization techniques for Intel hardware.<ref>{{cite web|title=Intel® Parallel Computing Center at SCI Institute, University of Utah {{!}} Intel® Software|url=https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-parallel-computing-center-at-sci-institute-university-of-utah|website=Intel Developer Zone|access-date=8 April 2017|language=en|date=16 September 2014}}</ref>

==Research==

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== Open source software releases ==

[[Image:Iv3d-torso.png|250px|thumb| A [[Computed tomography|CT]] scan of a human torso rendered with [[ImageVis3D]]]]

[[File:A-Volumetric-Method-for-Quantifying-Atherosclerosis-in-Mice-by-Using-MicroCT-Comparison-to-En-Face-pone.0018800.s006.ogv|thumb|[[Voxel|Volumetric data]] of an [[aorta]] labeled with regions of interest using [[Seg3D]] and then interactively rendered in [[SCIRun]].]]

The SCI Institute releases [[Open-source software|open source]] [[softwarepackage (package management system)|software packages]]s for many of the projects developed by researchers for use by the [[scientific visualization]] and [[medical imaging]] communities. All projects are released under the [[MIT software license]]. Notable projects released by SCI include:

* [[SCIRun]] - [[Problem Solving Environment]] (PSE), for modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific problems

* [[ImageVis3D]] - [[volume rendering]] application with multidimensional [[transfer function]] visualization support

* [[Seg3D]] - interactive [[image segmentation]] tool

* [[ViSUS]] - Visualization Streams for Ultimate Scalability

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* [[VISPACK]] - C++ library that includes matrix, image, and volume objects

* [[Teem]] - collection of libraries for representing, processing, and visualizing scientific [[raster data]]

* [[Manta Interactive Ray Tracer]] - interactive [[ray tracing (graphics)|ray tracing]] environment designed for both workstations and supercomputers

==Notable researchers and alumni==

*[[David M. Beazley]] - wrote ''Python Essential Reference'', co-awarded the [[Gordon Bell Prize]] in 1993 and in 1998

*[[Juliana Freire]] - co-developed [[VisTrails]], Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]]

*[[Amy Ashurst Gooch]] - developed [[Gooch shading]] for [[non-photorealistic rendering|non-photo realistic rendering (NPR)]], authored first book on NPR

*[[Charles D. Hansen]] - co-editor of ''[[The Visualization Handbook]]''

*[[Gordon Kindlmann]] - developed [[tensor glyph]]s

*[[Aaron Lefohn]] - Director of Research at [[NVIDIA]]

*[[Theresa-Marie Rhyne]] - founding director of the [[SIGGRAPH]] Cartographic Visualization Project and the [[Environmental Protection Agency]] Scientific Visualization Center

* [[Miriah Meyer]] - [[TED Fellow]] and [[MIT Technology Review]] [[TR35]] listee, pioneer in [[interactive visualization]] for [[basic research]]

*[[Claudio Silva (computer scientist)|Claudio Silva]] - chair of [[IEEE Computer Society]] [[Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics]], co-developed [[VisTrails]]

*[[Erik Reinhard]] - Distinguished Scientist at [[Technicolor SA|Technicolor Research and Innovation]], founder and Editor-in-Chief for ''[[ACM Transactions on Applied Perception]]''

*[[Theresa-Marie Rhyne]] - founding director of the [[SIGGRAPH]] Cartographic Visualization Project and the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]] Scientific Visualization Center

*[[Peter Shirley]] - Distinguished Scientist at [[NVIDIA]] recognized for contributions to real time [[ray tracing (graphics)|ray tracing]]

*[[Claudio Silva (computer scientist)|Claudio Silva]] - chair of [[IEEE Computer Society]] [[Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics]], co-developed [[VisTrails]]

*[[Peter-Pike Sloan]] - developed the [[precomputed radiance transfer]] rendering method

*[[Ross Whitaker]] - director of the [[University of Utah School of Computing]] and [[IEEE Fellow]]

== External links ==

*[https://github.com/SCIInstitute SCI Institute GitHub]

*[http://www.sci.utah.edu/~nathang/history/SCI-History.pdf Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute: A History]

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