CIBC:Workshops:Workshop06:summ-wolfer

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Summary for James Wolfer

Affiliation

James Wolfer, Ph.D.
email: jwolfer@iusb.edu
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Indiana University South Bend

Summary

Well, this is a little embarrassing in the sense that I'm an utter "newby" here -- I'm still learning vocabulary. I bumped into your site searching for tools to handle volume images only days before your workshop announcement and conjectured that attending the workshop might be a good way to observe what others are doing with it and jump-start evaluating its suitability and, potentially, shorten the learning curve.

Specifically, I am interested in the Bioimage program (or so it seems to me :-), and programming api's for volumetric display, roi extraction, etc. We are considering a CT Angiography project and the ability to easily write code to extract subplanes with arbitrary orientation at specified locations in the volume (with interpolation) ect. is important. It's not clear to me that this suite of products exactly fits my needs, but I felt that this is an opportunity to see.

At any rate, I installed Bioimage only a couple of days ago, and have tried with some Dicom volume samples. I like what I see, but ultimately it will be the api and flexibility for interfacing with other programs that I need.

So, you should consider me as an observer and not try to do anything specific for my case. I'm too new to the product, and the area, for that to be an effective strategy, and it would unfairly constrain other participants.