REU Welcome, Introduction & Projects’ Description (Orientation Day)

9:00am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30am

9:40am

Welcome to the REU Program & DePaul University --  Dr. Furst

9:40am

10:00am

Introduction of the Program --  Dr. Raicu

10:00am

10:15am

Supervising Faculty Introductions -- All Faculty

10:15am

10:45am

MedIX Students Introductions  --  All Students

10:45 am

10:55am

Evaluation Process during the MedIX Program – Dr. Furst

Entry Survey of Expectations and Preferences I – online survey – REU students

10:55am

11:00am

Break

11:00am

11:30am

Project Description:  Dr. Dettori

11:30am

12:00pm

Project Description:  Dr. Dettori

12:00 pm

1:30pm

Lunch – Russian Tea Restaurant

1:30 pm

2:00pm

Project Description:  Dr. Channin

2:00pm

2:30pm

Project Description: Dr. Channin

2:30pm

3:30pm

REU MedIX Experiences - summer 2006

3:30pm

5:00pm

Welcome to Chicago , Tour of CTI, DePaul Center, Library, Student ID Cards --Dr. Dettori

Project Descriptions, MedIX Experiences and Welcome Dinner (Orientation Day)

9:00 am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:00 am

Project Description:  Dr. Furst

10:00 am

10:30 am

Project Description:  Dr. Furst

10:30am

11:30pm

REU MedIX Experiences - summer 2006

11:30am

1:00 pm

Lunch – Exchequer

1:00pm

1:30pm

Project Description: Dr. Raicu

1:30pm

2:00 pm

Project Description: Dr. Raicu

2:00pm

 3:00pm

HR employment paper work – Dr. Furst

3:00pm

3:30pm

Email accounts, server access, ID cards and lab keys – Dr. Furst

3:30pm

6:30pm

Welcome Dinner & Chicago Architecture River Tour

Tutorials

9:00am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:15 am

Introduction to Image Processing I -- Dr. Furst

10:15 am

11:00 am

Introduction to Image Processing II – Dr. Furst

11:00 am

12:00 am

Introduction to Matlab – Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student

12:00 pm

1:30 pm

Lunch – Cosi

1:30pm

2:30pm

Image Processing in Matlab – Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student

2:30pm

5:00pm

Matlab hands-on session - Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student

Tutorials & Project Selection (Orientation Day - room 436A)

9:00am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:30 am

Open study/ Discussion Time/ Team Assignment/ – all students and faculty  

10:30 am

11:30 am

Individual meetings of the student-faculty teams

11:30 am

1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

1:45 pm

Introduction to Machine Learning I -- Dr. Raicu

1:45 pm

2:30 pm

Introduction to Machine Learning II -- Dr. Raicu

2:45pm

3:45pm

Introduction to SPSS -- Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student

3:45pm

5:00pm

Machine Learning in SPSS -- Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student

Research Careers and Visual Computing Seminar (room 436A)

9:00am

11:00am

Lab work and team meetings

11:00am

12:00pm

Retrieving and reading research papers – Dr. Raicu

12:00pm

1:00pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

2:00pm

Developing a Research Career – Dr. Raicu

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

Visual Computing Seminar: Research presentation:

“Liver Segmentation using texture-based Pixel Classification”- Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student

3:00pm

5:00pm

Lab work

Northwestern Visit & Lab Work (Northwestern laboratory, 448 E Ontario, Suite 300)

9:00am

12:00pm

Northwestern Visit – Dr. Channin

12:00pm

1:30pm

Lunch - Sushi

1:30pm

5:00pm

Lab work

Lab Work & DePaul's Disco Inferno Picnic

9:00am

3:30pm

Lab work

3:30pm

6:30pm

DePaul Disco Inferno Invitation

Lincoln Park Student Center, Room 120

Research Seminars & Professional Societies

1:00 pm

2:00pm

How to make a research presentation? – L. Dettori

2:00 pm

3:00pm

Visual Computing Seminar: Paper Presentation by Ekarin

N. E. Maillot and M. Thonnat, "Ontology Based Complex Object Recognition," Image and Vision Computing Journal (2006), doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2005.07.027
 

3:00 pm

4:00pm

Computer Science & Engineering Professional Societies:  Dr. Dettori

Research Seminars 

Tone Mapping - Alex

Texture-based Active Contour Mappings - Aaron

2:00 pm

3:00pm

Visual Computing Seminar: Paper Presentation by Ekarin

C. Muramatsu, Q. Li, K. Suzuki, R. A. Schmidt, J. Shiraishi, G. M. Newstead, and K. Doi, "Investigation of psychophysical measure for evaluation of similar images for mammographic masses: preliminary results," Med. Phys. 32 (7), pp. 2295-2304, July 2005.
 

Northwestern Visit & Lab Work

7:30 – 9:30 AM there is a forum about Health Information Exchange between institutions (a hot topic these days). It may be of interest to some of you. Details and RSVP at: The forum is called Health Information Exchange & Continuity of Care: The New Frontier for Healthcare Executives, and is being held at Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 251 E. Huron, 3rd Fl. Conference Center Rooms C&D, Feinberg Pavilion, Chicago, IL. PLEASE GO TO THIS SITE AND RSVP IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND.

Also please note that DRESS CODE for July 10 is BUSINESS CASUAL. This means long pants, skirts or pants, and shirts, no flip flops, etc.

9:45am

12:00pm

Tour of NMH Radiology and see some imaging equipment-  Dr. Channin (we will meet in the FEINBERG lobby of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 251 E Erie at 9:45 AM)

12:00pm

1:30pm

LaMBDA seminar/luncheon , Conference room in 680 N Lake Shore Drive, 11th Floor

1:30pm

5:00pm

Lab work

Research Seminars 

Mammography assessment- Rachel and Christine

3-D Texture Analysis - Carl and Dan

2:00 pm

3:00pm

Visual Computing Seminar

3:00 pm

4:00pm

Computer Science & Engineering Professional Societies:  Dr. Dettori (rescheduled)

Student Presentations (Millennia Board Room)

10:00am

10:35am

Crystal

10:35am

11:10am

Marwa and Ryan

11:10am

11:15am

Break

11:15am

11:50am

Aaron

12:00pm

1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm

2:05pm

Alex

2:05pm

2:40pm

Rachel and Christina

2:40pm

2:45pm

Break

2:45pm

3:20pm

Carl and Dan

3:20pm

3:30pm

Discussion of future events, MedIX poster 2007, project descriptions and diagrams, etc

Research Seminars 

11:30 am

1:00pm

Research Projects at CTI event: (Moderators: Ryan and Dan)

Invited Speakers:

Daniel Mittleman: "Leading Virtual Meetings: Internet for the Teaming Masses"

Ljubomir Perkovic: "Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks"

James Yu: "Network Research at CTI"

Research Seminars (room 436A)

1:00 pm

2:00 pm

Getting your work published - Dr. Furst

2:00 pm

3:00pm

Visual Computing Seminar:

"Texture-based deformable models" - Aaron

Paper presentation (Carl): "Statistical Estimation of Histogram Variation for Texture Classification" by Robert E. Broadhurst

1:00 pm

2:00 pm

Ethics - Dr. Furst

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

Visual Computing Seminar:

"Mammography assessment" project- Rachel and Christine

Paper presentation (Dan): P. Wu, B.S. Manjunanth, S.D. Newsam, H.D. Shin, "A Texture Descriptor for Image Retrieval and Browsing,"  IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries,  1999

Life in a day of a PhD student event, millennia boardroom

11:30 am

1:00 pm

Life in a day of a PhD student event

Moderators: Alex, Aaron, and Carl

2:00 pm

4:00 pm

Visit to University of Chicago

Host: Dr. Samuel Armato III

Farewell night

5:30 pm

7:00 pm

Farewell Dinner

8:00 pm

"Between Barack and a Hard Place" -  https://chitickets.secondcity.com/Online/

Final Student Presentations (Breakfast and Lunch will be provided)

9:30 am

10:05 am

Alex: "Tone Mapping"

10:05 am

10:40 am

Crystal and Rachel: "Volumetric Breast Density Estimation and RadBuilder"

10:40 am

10:45 am

Break

10:45 am

11:20 am

Dan and Carl: "3D Texture Analysis"

11:20 am

12:00 pm

Aaron: "Texture-based Deformable Models for Liver Segmentation"

12:00 pm

1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

1:35 pm

Marwa: "Fourier Descriptors for Lung Nodule Boundary Analysis"

1:35 pm

2:10 pm

Ryan: "Content-based Image Retrieval for Lung Nodule Retrieval"

2:10 pm

2:15 pm

Break

2:15 pm

2:50 pm

Crystal: "Contrast Enhancement of Soft Tissues"

2:50 pm

3:00 pm

Final thoughts about the program: mentors and REU students

3:00 pm

3:30 pm

Exit Survey of Preferences and Expectations