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

10:30am

MedIX Students Introductions  --  All Students

10:30am

11:30am

Project Description:  Dr. Channin

11:30am

12pm

Evaluation Process during the MedIX Program – Dr. Furst

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

12:00pm

1:30pm

Lunch (312 Chicago - 136 N. La Salle St.)

1:30 pm

2:30pm

Developing a Research Career:  Dr. Furst

2:30pm

3:30pm

REU MedIX Experiences – Mike and Skip (summer 2006)

3:30pm

5:00pm

HR employment paper work – Dr. Furst

Project Descriptions & MedIX Experiences  (Orientation Day)

9:00 am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:30 am

Project Description:  Dr. Furst

10:30am

11:30pm

REU MedIX Experiences – previous REU summers – Sharon (summer 2006), Ryan (summer 2007)

11:30am

1:00 pm

Lunch (Exchequer)

1:00pm

2:00pm

Project Description: Dr. Raicu

2:00pm

 3:30pm

Welcome to Chicago , Tour of CTI, DePaul Center, Library, Student ID Cards, CTA passes –Dr. Furst

3:30pm

4:30pm

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

Tutorials & Project Descriptions at University of Chicago (Orientation Day)

9:00am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:15 am

Introduction to Machine Learning I -- Dr. Raicu

10:15 am

11:00 am

Introduction to Machine Learning II -- Dr. Raicu

11:00 am

12:00 am

Introduction to SPSS—Ekarin Varutbangkul, PhD student

12:00 pm

1:30 pm

Lunch (Under 55))

2:00pm

5:00pm

University of Chicago: projects presentation, lab and campus visit

Tutorials & Project Selection (Orientation Day)

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

11:00am

12:00pm

Introduction to MatLab – Dmitry Zinovev, PhD student

12:00 pm

1:30 pm

Lunch (Cosi)

1:30 pm

2:15 pm

Introduction to Image Processing in MatLab I– Dmitry Zinovev, PhD student

1:45 pm

2:30 pm

Introduction to Image Processing in MatLab II– Dmitry Zinovev, PhD student

2:30pm

2:45pm

Break

2:45pm

4:00pm

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

4:00pm

5:00pm

Retrieving and reading research papers – Dr. Raicu

Lab work and team meetings

9:00am

5:00pm

Lab work and team meetings at UofC, NU and DePaul

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:30pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

1:30pm

3:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

MedIX seminar (room 723): Paper Presentation by Ekarin Varutbankul, PhD student:

M. Prasad, A. Sowmya, and P. Wilson, "Multi-level classification of emphysema in HRCT lung images"  in Pattern Analysis & Applications, November 2007

5:30pm

9:00pm

Problem Solving Club meeting (CTI 4th floor lab, room 400)

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

1:00pm

5:00pm

Visit to Northwestern University and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:30pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

1:30pm

3:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

MedIX seminar: Paper Presentation – REU team I

Paper presentation (Allison and Ankur): MA Selver, A Kocaoğlu, GK Demir, H Doğan, O Dicle, C Güzeliş, "Patient oriented and robust automatic liver segmentation for pre-evaluation of liver transplantation", in Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2008

Paper presentation (Sarah): Q Li, F Li, J Shiraishi, S Katsuragawa, S Sone, K Doi, "Investigation of new psychophysical measures for evaluation of similar images on thoracic computed tomography for distinction between benign and malignant nodules", in Medical Physics, October 2003

3:00pm

4:00pm

How to make a research presentation – Daniela Raicu

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

1:00pm

5:00pm

Visit to Northwestern University and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Research presentations

10:00am

10:30am

“Radiology Playbook” by Nasya Mendoza-Elias (UofC) & Lizhou Huang (NWU)

10:30am

11:00am

“Integrating XIP into a FOSS clinical workstation” by Maksim Meltser (Lake Forest College)

11:00am

11:15am

Break

11:15am

11:45am

“3D Approaches for Computer-aided liver diagnosis” by Reed Tompkins (Gonzaga University)

11:45am

12:15pm

“Classification of temporal subtraction images” by Samantha Passen (University of Michigan)

12:15pm

1:45pm

Lunch

1:45pam

2:15pm

“Liver segmentation using active learning” by Allison Petrosino (Wellesley College) & Ankur Bakshi (NWU)

2:15pm

2:45pm

“Probabilistic spleen segmentation” by Maureen Kelly (IIT) & Nicholas Cooper (Northern Kentucky University)

2:45pm

3:15pm

“Multi-view learning for lung nodule interpretation” by Aaron Mintz (Carnegie Mellon University)

3:15pm

3:30pm

Break

3:30pm

4:00pm

“Integration of radiologists’ feedback into computer-aided diagnosis systems” by Sarah Jabon (Ithaca College)

4:00pm

4:30pm

“A study on the effect of imaging acquisition parameters on lung nodule image interpretation” by Shirley Yu (University of Southern California) and Joe Wantroba (DePaul University)

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:30pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

1:30pm

3:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

MedIX seminar: Paper Presentation – REU team II

Paper presentation (Samantha): M.M. Coselmon, J.M. Balter, D. L. McShan, and M.L. Kessler , "Mutual information based CT registration of the lung at exhale and inhale breathing states using thin-plate splines", Medical Physics 31(11), 2004

Paper Presentation(Shirley and Joe): M. Das et al, "Accuracy of automated volumetry of pulmonary nodules across different multislice CT scanners", Eur Radiol (2007) 17: pp 1979–1984

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:30pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

1:30pm

3:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

MedIX seminar: Paper Presentation – REU team III

Paper presentation (Reed): Sima Taheri, Sim Heng Ong, Vincent Chong, "Threshold-based 3D Tumor Segmentation using Level Set (TSL)", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'07)

Paper presentation (Max): Fred W. Prior, Bradley J. Erickson, and Lawrence Tarbox , "Open Source Software Projects of the caBIG™ In Vivo Imaging Workspace Software Special Interest Group", Journal of Digital Imaging, Vol 20, Suppl 1, 2007: pp 94Y100

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

2:00pm

5:00pm

Visit to Northwestern University

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:30pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

1:30pm

3:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

MedIX seminar: Paper Presentation – REU team IV

Paper presentation (Nasya and Lizhou): W-C. Shen, R-F Chang, WK Moon, "Computer Aided classification for breast ultrasound based on breast imaging reporting and data system (BI_RADS)", Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol. 33, No. 11, pp. 1688–1698, 2007

Paper presentation (Allison and Ankur): S. Hugueny and M. Rousson, "Hierarchical Detection of Multiple Organs Using Boosted Features", CAIP 2007, LNCS 4673, pp. 317–325, 2007

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:30pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

1:00pm

3:30pm

Visit to Accenture Technology Labs

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:30pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

1:30pm

3:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

MedIX seminar: Final project research presentation - Aaron Mintz, REU student

3:00pm

5:00pm

Women in science

5:30pm

9:00pm

Problem Solving Club meeting (CTI 4th floor lab)

Final Research presentations

10:00am

10:30am

"Integration of radiologists’ feedback into computer-aided diagnosis systems" by Sarah Jabon (Ithaca College)

10:30am

11:00am

“A study on the effect of imaging acquisition parameters on lung nodule image interpretation” by Shirley Yu (University of Southern California) and Joe Wantroba (DePaul University)

11:00am

11:15am

Break

11:15am

11:45am

“Liver segmentation using active learning” by Allison Petrosino (Wellesley College) & Ankur Bakshi (NWU)

11:45am

12:15pm

“Soft tissue segmentation” by Maureen Kelly (IIT) & Nicholas Cooper (Northern Kentucky University)

12:15pm

1:45pm

Lunch

1:45pam

2:15pm

“3D Approaches for Computer-aided liver diagnosis” by Reed Tompkins (Gonzaga University)

2:15pm

2:45pm

“Classification of temporal subtraction images” by Samantha Passen (University of Michigan)

2:45pm

3:15pm

Break

3:15pm

3:30pm

“Radiology Playbook” by Nasya Mendoza-Elias (UofC) & Lizhou Huang (NWU)

3:30pm

4:00pm

“Integrating XIP into a FOSS clinical workstation” by Maksim Meltser (Lake Forest College)

4:00pm

4:30pm

Final Evaluation Surveys

Project demos and deliverables are due

9:00am

12:00pm

Last meeting of the REU group

Deliverables are due: final presentation, final report, any submitted papers, nuggets, code and documentation