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Bruno M. Jedynak

Detection of Anatomical Landmarks

PLACE:	Clark 314
EVENT:	CIS Seminar Series
DATE:	September 26, 2006
TIME:	1:00 - 2:00 PM

Abstract

Anatomical landmarks are well-defined points in the anatomy that experts use to establish biologically meaningful correspondences between structures. Such correspondences are commonly used by registration algorithms, as initialization and/or as constraints. Landmarks also provide a local shape description useful for anatomical shape comparison.
However, locating landmarks on biological structures is a challenging and time-consuming task, even for experts. For example, in Brain MRI imagery, manually locating 15 landmarks on the Hippocampus takes several hours. I will present during this talk a system for detecting landmarks developed by my student Camille Izard.

Brief biography

Prof. Jedynak received his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the Universite Paris Sud (Orsay, France) in February 1996. His dissertation was performed at INRIA (Rocquencourt, France). He spent a year as post-doc in the department of Statistics at the University of Chicago (IL, U.S.A.). He was then appointed professor at the Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille, France). He is currently performing a visiting professorship in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at The Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Center for Imaging Science.