Schedule of Events- Summer 2009

Schedule Subject to Change

All activities and events will be held in the Millennia Boardroom (room 723, CDM building, Loop campus) unless otherwise noted.

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. David Channin, NU mentor

11:30am

12pm

Logistics (email accounts, lab access)

Evaluation Process during the MedIX Program – Dr. Furst

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

12:00pm

1:30pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

2:30pm

REU MedIX Experiences

2:30pm

3:30pm

Project Description:  Dr. Kenji Suzuki, UofC mentor

3:30pm

5:00pm

HR employment paper work – Dr. Furst

 

 

Project Description, MedIX Experiences & NU visit (Orientation Day)

9:00 am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:30 am

Project Description:  Dr. Jacob Furst, DePaul Mentor

10:30am

11:30pm

REU MedIX Experiences – previous REU summers – Sharon (DePaul 2006), Shirley (DePaul 2008)

11:30am

12:00pm

Logistics, Tour of SoC, DePaul Center, Library, Student ID Cards, CTA passes– Dr. Furst

12:00pm

1:30 pm

Lunch

2:00pm

5:00pm

Northwestern University visit

2:00pm –brief tour of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital and introductory lecture by Dr. Channin (meet in the NMH Feinberg Lobby, 251 E. Erie) followed by the NU lab visit (737 N. Michigan Ave.)

 

 

Project Descriptions, Research Seminar, Professional Organizations, and University of Chicago visit (Orientation Day)

9:00am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:30 am

Project Description:  Dr. Daniela Raicu, DePaul Mentor

10:30 am

11:30 am

Developing a research career -- Dr. Raicu

11:30 am

12:15 pm

Professional organizations: ACM-W, IEEE CS, UPE

12:15 pm

1:15 pm

Lunch

2:00pm

4:00pm

University of Chicago labs and campus visit

 

 

Tutorials & Project Selection (Orientation Day)

 

9:00am

9:30am

Breakfast

9:30 am

10:30am

Introduction to Image Processing -- Dr. Furst

10:30am

12:00pm

Introduction to MatLab - Dmitry Zinovev, PhD student

12:00 pm

1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

2:00 pm

Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining – Dr. Raicu

2:00 pm

3:30 pm

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

3:30pm

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 and NU visit

3:00pm

5:00pm

Computed Radiography – Lecture and Demonstration

 

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar

9:00am

2:00pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

2:00pm

5:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

2:00pm How to make a research presentation – Daniela Raicu

3:00pm MedIX teams progress reports

3:30pm N. Tran, "The Normalized Compression Distance and Image Distinguishability", Proceedings of the 2007 IS&T/SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference - paper presentation by Julia and Jonathan. (pdf)

 

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar
    Long weekend because of Independence day. University was closed.
     

 

Lab work and NU visit
3:00pm 5:00pm Visit to NU (Computed Tomography - Lecture and Demosntration)

 

 

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

1:00pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul
1:00pm 2:00pm "How to give a research presentation" - D. Raicu
2:00pm 4:00pm Papers presentations as follow:

i) Suzuki K., Sheu I., Rockey D.C., and Dachman A.H.: A CAD utilizing 3D massive-training ANNs for detection of flat lesions in CT colonography: Preliminary results. Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE MI), Orlando, FL, February 2009. - paper presentation by Emily and Frank (pdf)

ii) V.K. Pothos, C. Theoharatos, G. Economou, A. Ifantis, "Texture retrieval based on a non-parametric measure for multivariate distributions", Proc. of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval, Pages: 502 - 509, 2007 - paper presentation by Rick (pdf)

iii) Li, Q., Li, F., Shiraishi, J., Katsuragwa, S., Sone, S., Doi, K., "Investigation of New Psychophysical Measures for Evaluation of Similar Images on Thoracic Computed Tomography for Distinction between Benign and Malignant Nodules", Medical Physics 30:2584-2593, 2003. paper presentation by Grace and Robert (pdf)

4:00pm

5:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

2:00pm MedIX teams progress reports

3:00pm MedIX seminar:  Paper Presentation by MedIX Team  II

 

 

 

 

 

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

2:00pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

2:00pm

5:00pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

2:00pm MedIX teams progress reports

3:00pm MedIX seminar:  paper presentations

i) Bram van Ginneken, "Supervised Probabilistic Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in CT Scans", Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2006, paper presentation by Stephen and Olga (pdf)

ii) Katerina Frantziy, Sophia Ananiadouy, Hideki Mima, "Automatic Recognition of Multi-Word Terms: the C-value/NC-value Method", International Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol. V3, No. 2. (2000), pp. 115-130., paper presentation by Alex and Rebecca (pdf)


3:30-5:00pm Computer Science circle - Moderators: Grace and Julia

 

Lab work

 

Midterm Research Presentations

9:00am

9:30am

Breakfast

10:00pm

3:30pm

Schedule for the midterm research presentations:
10:00am - 10:40am "Flat polyp detection in CT colonography" by Emily Kawaler (Carleton College) and Francis Ferraro (University of Rochester)


10:40am - 11:20am “Ontology around RadLex and natural language processing" by Rebecca Hazen (Rochester Institute of Technology) and Alex van Esbroeck (University of Florida)


11:20am - 12:00pm "Lung nodule segmentation in CT images" by Olga Zinoveva (Harvard University) and Stephen Sienna (Notre Dame University)


12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch (DPC 8002)


1:30pm - 2:10pm "Kolmogorov based-distances" by Jia Wu (University of California, San Diego) and Jonathan Mortensen (Case Western University)


2:10pm - 2:50pm "Mapping content-based similarities to semantic-based similarities for lung nodules retrieval" by Grace (Northwestern University) and Robert Kim (John Hopkins University)


2:50pm - 3:30pm “Probabilistic similarity measures and classifiers for lung nodules retrieval and automatic annotation" by Richard Brock (DePaul University) and Dmitry Zinovev (PhD student, DePaul University)

 

Lab work and NU visit

3:00pm

5:00pm

MRI – Lecture and Demonstration

 

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

2:00pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

2:00pm

3:30pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

MedIX seminar: Paper Presentation – REU team V

R. Cilibrasi and P.M.B. Vitanyi, "Automatic meaning discovery using Google," Arxiv preprint cs.CL/0412098, 2004. - Julia & Jon
S. Armato et al., ""Assessment of Radiologist Performance in the Detection of Lung Nodules: Dependence on the Definition of 'Truth' " - Olga & Stephen
3:30pm 5:00pm 3:30-5:00pm: Research@CDM event - moderators: Alex, Frank, and Jonathan (flyer)
3:30-3:50: Dr Craig Miller
3:50-4:10: Dr Ljubomir Perkovic
4:10-4:30: Dr. Noriko Tomuro
4:30-4:50: Ms. Paula Laurent

 

 

 

4:00pm

  

Dr. Channin's 11th Annual Imaging Informatics BBQ

 

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00am

2:00pm

Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul

2:00pm

3:30pm

Group meeting at  DePaul (Millennia boardroom)

2:00pm MedIX teams progress reports

a. Samala, Ravi, MS, Wilfrido Moreno, PhD, Yuncheng You, PhD, and Wei Qian, PhD. "A Novel Approach to Nodule Feature Optimization on Thin Section Thoracic CT."Academic Radiology 16 (2009): 418-427.(pdf) - presentation by Grace&Robert

b. Dissertation Proposal rehersal - Julie Zhang, PhD student
3:30pm 5:00pm  "Women in Science" event by Dr. Raicu - Moderators: Olga, Emily, and Rebecca (flyer)

Lab work and NU visit
12:00 12:30pm - Visit to the DePaul Lab
1:00pm 2:00pm - Visit to the UofC Lab
2:30pm 3:00pm - Visit to the  NU lab (if schedule permits)
3:00 5:00pm - Lecture and visit at NMH

5:00pm

 

 - Dinner

 

 

Project demos and deliverables are due

9:00am

10am

DePaul Lab visit (if rescheduled from Thursday)

10am

4:00pm

Final presentations schedule:

10-10:40 “RadLex ontology and natural language processing" by Rebecca Hazen (Rochester Institute of Technology) and Alex van Esbroeck (University of Florida)


10:40-11:20 "Lung nodule segmentation" by Olga Zinoveva (Harvard University) and and Stephen Sienna (Notre Dame University)


11:20-11:30 Break


11:30-12:10 "Content based image retrieval" by Grace (Northwestern University) and Robert Kim (John Hopkins University)


12:10-1:45 Lunch in the DePaul Center


1:45-2:25 "Probabilistic based semantic retrieval of lung nodules" by Rick Brock


2:25-3:05 "Computer-aided detection of flat polyps in CT colonoscopy" by Emily Kawaler (Carleton College) and Francis Ferraro (University of Rochester)


3:05-3:15 Break


3:15-3:55 "Kolmogorov complexity and image similarity" by Jia Wu (University of California, San Diego) and Jonathan Mortensen (Case Western University)

3:55pm

4:00pm

Final Remarks

5:00pm

7:00pm

Farewell dinner

 

 

 
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