Biomedical Imaging and Analysis 2005/2006

This series focuses on problems that arise in mathematical modeling for biomedical image analysis and on interesting applications of imaging with the goal of better understanding of biological phenomena.

Seminars usually take place on Thursdays from 3-4 in 32-D507.

Contact: Polina Golland polina@csail.mit.edu


Mark Jenkinson, The FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford
Constraining Non-Linear Registration of Functional and Structural Images using MR Physics
Speaker(s): Mark Jenkinson
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-D507
Contact: Wanmei Ou, 3-4143, wanmei@mit.edu

Tom Funkhouser, Princeton University
Geometric Matching of Protein-Ligand Binding Sites
Speaker(s): Tom Funkhouser
Date: Friday, March 24, 2006
Time: 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/ Kiva) NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND ROOM
Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu

John Gabrieli, MIT BCS
Enhancing Learning in the Human Brain: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging
Speaker(s): John Gabrieli
Date: Thursday, April 06, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-D507
Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu

Nancy Kanwisher, MIT BCS
Functional Specificity in the Cortex: Selectivity, Experience, & Generality
Speaker(s): Nancy Kanwisher
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-D451
Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu

Brad Dickerson, MGH
Brain function and structure in health, aging, and AD: the need for better integrative analysis and visualization
Speaker(s): Brad Dickerson
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-D451
Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu

Moshe Bar, Harvard Medical School, MGH
CANCELLED: Top-Down Predictions in Visual Recognition
Speaker(s): Moshe Bar
Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-D507
Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu

Ela Claridge, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Probing the eye histology with light
Speaker(s): Ela Claridge
Date: Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-D451
Contact: Polina Golland, x8005, polina@csail.mit.edu

Moshe Bar, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School
NOTE TIME CHANGE: The Contribution of Top-Down Predictions to Visual Recognition
Speaker(s): Moshe Bar
Date: Thursday, July 20, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: 32-D507
Contact: Polina Golland, x8005, polina@csail.mit.edu

Liu Yang, Michigan State University, Intel Research
Local Distance Metric Learning
Speaker(s): Liu Yang
Date: Friday, July 21, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-D507
Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu

Randy Buckner, Harvard University
Postponed to September
Speaker(s): Randy Buckner
Date: Thursday, August 03, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-D507
Contact: Polina Golland, x8005, polina@csail.mit.edu