Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Warnock Engineering Building, University of Utah.tif|Warnock Engineering Building, University of Utah|250px|left]] The SCI research group was founded in 1994 by Drs. '''[http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/crj.html Chris Johnson]''' and '''[http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/macleod.html Rob MacLeod]''' along with five graduate students. In 1996, they became the Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging and in 2000, the SCI Institute. '''[http://www.sci.utah.edu The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute]''' is now one of eight permanent research institutes at the [http://www.utah.edu/ University of Utah] and home to over 200 faculty, students, and staff. The 16 tenure-track faculty are drawn primarily from the School of Computing, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and virtually all faculty have adjunct appointments in other, largely medical, departments. Recent growth in the SCI Institute has come in part from the award in 2007 from the state of Utah of a USTAR ([http://business.utah.gov/programs/science-advisor/wired/WIRED-Partners/ustarinitiative/ Utah Science and Technology Advanced Research]) cluster in Imaging Technology. This allowed the Institute to recruit three new faculty in image analysis: Professors [http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/gerig.html Guido Gerig], [http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/fletcher.html Tom Fletcher], [http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/tolga.html Tolga Tasdizen]. During this same time period, they were also able to recruit Professor [http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/pascucci.html Valerio Pascucci] in visualization. In 2011, USTAR funding allowed two more: [http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/orly.html Orly Alter] who specializes in genomic signal processing and [http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/miriah.html Miriah Meyer], who's novel biological visualization tools are revolutionizing the way scientists view and understand their data. In 2012, the SCI Institute recruited [http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/dxiu.html Dongbin Xiu] as its latest faculty member. Dongbin is one of the most recognized names and highly cited researchers in the area of uncertainty quantification, and will make a wonderful addition to the Institute.

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The SCI Institute houses the '''[http://www.sci.utah.edu/cibc NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC)]''' and is associated with several other national research centers:

* [http://sdav.sci.utah.edu/ DoE Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization (SDAV)]

* [http://mrl.sci.utah.edu/ Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories (MRL)]

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

Besides research in the areas mentioned above, a particular focus of SCI has been to develop innovative and robust software packages, and release them as [[open source]]. Examples:

* [http://www.scirun.org SCIRun], a Problem Solving Environment (PSE), for modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific problems.

* [http://www.biomesh3d.org BioMesh3D], a tetrahedral mesh generator, that is capable of generating multi-material quality meshes out of segmented biomedical image data.

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* [http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/atlaswerks.html AtlasWerks], an open-source (BSD license) software package for medical image atlas generation.

* [http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/ncr-toolset.html NCR Toolset], a collection of software tools for the reconstruction and visualization of neural circuitry from electron microscopy data.

* [http://www.fluorender.org FluoRender, an interactive rendering tool for confocal microscopy data visualization.]

* [http://http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/elvis.html ElVis], a visualization system created for the accurate and interactive visualization of scalar fields produced by high-order spectral/hp finite element simulations.

* [http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/vistrails.html VisTrails], a scientific workflow management system.

* [http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/afront.html Afront], a tool for meshing and remeshing surfaces.