Methods In Medical Image Analysis - Spring 2012

BioE 2630 (Pitt) : 16-725 (CMU RI) : 18-791 (CMU ECE) : 42-735 (CMU BME)

Instructor
John Galeotti
galeotti+miia ATcs.cmu.edu
 
Teaching Assistants

Vikas R.S.
(TA)
vir16+miia ATpitt.edu

“Jackie” Chen
(Grader)
kuanchic+miia ATandrew.cmu.edu

Syllabus (general)

Syllabus (ECE format)

Meeting in GHC 5222
(at Carnegie Mellon University)

Class begins Tuesday, Jan. 17th!
Class ends Thursday, May 3rd.

Lecture Times and Locations

We comply with both the U. Pitt. and CMU calendars. Lectures are Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30-11:45 AM, in GHC 5222, Carnegie Mellon University.

Shadow Program Times, Locations, & Details

Shadow Program:  5-8 sessions, 8:30-9:30 AM weekday mornings (and possibly other times optional for shadowing pathology).

Online schedule (same password) and directions. Reports should be emailed to Jackie and Galeotti.

Textbooks, Downloads, & Other References

Last Year's Website has been archived.

Assignments

Assignment #1 - Introductory Email

Assignment #2 - Get ITK & SimpleITK installed, etc.

Assignment #3 - Use SimpleITK to do Segmentation and Pre-processing

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Final Project

Schedule--Subject to Change

Week # Date Updated for 2012? Material Video and .pptx files
Week 1
Tu 1/17
 Y

Lecture 1: Introductions, purpose, Syllabus
Assignment #1 given
Pitt's add/drop period ends today

 
Th 1/19
 Y Lecture 2: Programming background:  C++ & Python  
     
Week 2
Tu 1/24
 Y

Lecture 3: Math & probability background
Begin class with a short QUIZ on Snyder ch. 1-2

  
Th 1/26
 Y Lecture 4: ITK background & basic usage (& imaging modalities?)
Assignment #2 given
CMU's add/drop-with-refund period ends on 27th (tomorrow)		  
     
Week 3
Tu 1/31
 Y

Lecture 5: Image characterization
Quiz #2 on Snyder ch. 4 (skip hexagonal coordinates on pp 57-59 & 71-73)

 
Th 2/2
 Y Lecture 6: Linear processing
Quiz #3 on Snyder 5.1-5.6,5.8-5A (through page 101, but skip 5.7)
Take-home quiz #4 assigned - due in class on 2/9.		  
     
Week 4
Tu 2/7
 Y

Lecture 7: Image relaxation: restoration & feature extraction
Quiz #5 on Snyder ch. 6
Later today: TA Help Session for Take-home quiz, 4:30-5:30 PM at GHC 4301

  
Th 2/9
 Y

Lecture 8: ITK registration
Take-home quiz #4 due in class.

  
     
Week 5
Tu 2/14
 Y

Lecture 9: Segmentation, part 1
Quiz #6 on Snyder ch. 8 (skip 8.3.2 on pp. 189-196 & 8A.1.1 on pp. 208-209)
Discuss Shadow Program & signup procedure in class.
Shadow Program -- be sure to sign up for the Shadow Program THIS WEEK, beginning at 6 PM on the 15th.

  
Th 2/16
 Y Lecture 10: Segmentation, part 2 (continue using lecture 9 notes, start with segmentation by thresholding)  
     
Week 6
Tu 2/21
 Y

Lecture 11: Segmentation, part 3 (active contours)
Discuss Shadow Program (which starts the 22nd, i.e. tomorrow)

 
Th 2/23
 Y Lecture 12: Level set segmentations & (briefly begin) parametric transforms (Snyder 8.5.2 & Snyder 11.1-11.6) [not required, but recommended: Insight into Images ch 8]
Quiz on Snyder 11.1-11.6		  
     
Week 7
Tu 2/28
 Y

Lecture 13: Shape (& finish parametric transforms)
Quiz on Snyder ch. 9 (read 9.1-9.8, 9.12-9.14)

  
Th 3/1
 Y

Lecture 14: Mathematical morphology & (briefly begin) image matching
Quiz on Snyder 7.1-7.5 & 13.1-13.5
Discuss final projects
Be sure to email me your tentative project proposals by the Wed night of the 14th (or sooner, esp. for CMU students)!
Pitt's deadline for students to submit Monitored Withdrawal forms to dean's office is the 2nd (tomorrow)

 Power Point 1
Power Point 2
Video
     
Pitt Spring Break
3/6 - 3/8
  

No Lectures

  
     
CMU Spring Break
3/13 - 3/15
   No Lectures  
         
Week 8
Tu 3/20
 Y Lecture 15: ITK images & iterators
Assignment #3 given: Segmentation and pre-processing

Power Point
Video

Th 3/22
 Y

Lecture 16: ITK pipeline, including connecting to SimpleITK (and possibly Imaging Modalities also)

 Power Point
Video
     
Week 9
Tu 3/27
 Y Lecture 17: ITK filters: how to write them (neighborhoods & numeric traits) Power Point
Video
Th 3/29
 Y Lecture 18: ITK filters, part 2 (advanced filter creation & misc. tools)
CMU's drop-without-withdrawl period ends on 30th (tomorrow)		 Power Point
Video
     
Week 10
Tu 4/3
 Y Lecture 19: Registration in depth (Insight into Images ch 10 + Viola & Wells)
 Power Point
Video
Th 4/5
 Y Lecture 20: Deformable registration & Imaging Modalities

Power Point 1
Power Point 2
Video
     
Week 11
Tu 4/10
 Y Lecture 21: ITK Paths Power Point
Video
Th 4/12
 Y Lecture 22: ITK and open source software development philosophy, and Visualization Power Point
Video
     
Week 12
Tu 4/17
 Y

Project working session--bring your laptops--attendance optional.

  
Th 4/19
   No Lecture - CMU Spring Carnival  
     
Week 13
Tu 4/24
   Student project presentations (schedule)
(Each presentation must be between 4.5 - 5.5 minutes long.)
Everyone's power-point slides due by 10 AM today!		  
Th 4/26
   Student project presentations & Projects Due  
         
Week 14
Tu 5/1
   Pitt not in session  
Th 5/3
   Pitt not in session  
         
Remaining Lecture Fragments:
 Lecture 7 GNC onward (when did I tack this on?), Lecture 14 Image Matching  
Potential Lectures:
      
      Guest Lecture: MRI/DTI (see also brain anatomy and the fiber track image gallery)  
      Itk Video (w/ OpenCV?)  
         
         
      Cootes and Taylor ASM (assuming part of ITKv4) (Cootes CVIU 1995) (based on 2008 guest lecture by Ken Urish)  
         
     

Neuropathology
Meet at UPMC, not at CMU

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