Schedule of Events- Summer 2012
Schedule Subject to Change
All
activities and events will be held in the Millennia Boardroom (room 723, CDM
building,
- Monday June 11, 2012
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REU Welcome, Introduction & Projects’ Description, Logistics (Orientation Day) |
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9:30am |
10:00am |
Breakfast |
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10:00am |
10:45am |
Welcome and overview of the summer program—Drs. Furst & Raicu |
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10:45am |
11:00am |
MedIX Students Introductions -- All Students |
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11:00am |
11:45am |
REU MedIX Experiences (previous REU students) Olga Zinoveva, Kevin Zhang (by phone) |
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11:45am |
12:30pm |
Logistics (email accounts, lab access, pictures) Evaluation Process during the MedIX Program – Dr. Furst Entry Survey of Expectations and Preferences I – online survey – REU students |
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12:30pm |
2:30pm |
Lunch
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2:30 pm |
3:30pm |
Research Project Description: Dr. Daniela Raicu, DePaul Mentor |
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3:30pm |
5:00pm |
Logistics,
Tour of SoC and of the DePaul Center, CTA passes – Dr. Furst |
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- Tuesday June 12, 2012
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Project Descriptions, Tutorials (Orientation Day) |
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9:30am |
10:00am |
Breakfast |
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10:00am |
11:00am |
Research Project Description: Dr. Jacob Furst, DePaul Mentor |
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11:00am |
11:45am |
REU MedIX Experiences (previous REU students) Kerry Seitz (by phone) |
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11:45am |
1:15pm |
Lunch |
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1:15 pm |
2:15 pm |
Introduction to Image Processing – Dr. Jacob Furst |
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2:15 pm 3:45pm |
3:45 pm 5:00pm |
Responsible conduct of research training, offered online by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) – Dr. Furst Introduction to Matlab and Image Processing in Matlab –Part I (lab 801) – Shu Xie & Wei Chen Lin, MedIX alumni |
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- Wednesday June 13, 2012
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Project Descriptions, Research Seminar, and Tutorials (Orientation Day) |
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9:30am |
10:00am |
Breakfast |
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10:00 am |
11:00 am |
Introduction to Matlab and Image Processing in Matlab –Part II (lab 801) – Shu Xie & Wei Chen Lin, MedIX alumni |
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11:00 am |
12:00 pm |
Introduction to Data Mining and Machine Learning– Dr. Raicu |
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12:00 pm |
1:30 pm |
Lunch |
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2:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm |
3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm |
Developing
a research career -- Dr. Furst Responsible
conduct of research, offered online by the Collaborative Institutional
Training Initiative (CITI – Dr. Furst Introduction to Medical Imaging in Matlab – (lab 801) – Shu Xie & Wei Chen Lin, MedIX alumni
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- Thursday June 14, 2012
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University of Chicago visit , Project Selection & Research seminar (Orientation Day) |
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10:00 am |
1:30pm |
University of Chicago visit |
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2:30 pm |
3:30 pm |
Open study/ Discussion Time/ Team Assignment/ – all students and faculty (pizza will be served) |
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3:30pm |
5:00pm |
How to manage your time during the REU program & Retrieving and reading research papers – Dr. Furst |
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- Friday June 15, 2012
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Lab work and team meetings |
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9:00am |
5:00pm |
Lab work and team meetings at UofC and DePaul |
- Tuesday June 19, 2012
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Lab work and visit to UofC |
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2:00pm |
4:00pm |
UofC Lecture and demonstration of a medical imaging modality |
- Friday June 22, 2012
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Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar |
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9:00am |
2:00pm |
Lab work at UofC and DePaul |
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2:00pm |
5:00pm |
Group meeting at DePaul 2:00-3:00pm – Progress report : The focus of the discussion this week will be on the goals, problem statement, and research hypothesis for each project 3-4:00pm – How to give a research presentation – Dr. Jacob Furst 4-5:00pm - Research presentation by Anne-Marie Giuca, Pomona College, CA, REU summer participant 2011
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- Friday June 29, 2012
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Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar |
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9:00am |
2:00pm |
Lab work at UofC and DePaul |
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2:00pm |
5:00pm |
Group meeting at DePaul (Millennia boardroom) 2:00pm MedIX teams progress reports: the focus will be on related work 3:30pm Survey 4:00pm Professional organizations: IEEE, ACM-W, UPE – Zahra Ferdowsi – UPE President and ACM-W member |
- Friday July 6, 2012
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Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars 1. |
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9:00am |
1:00pm |
Lab work at UofC and DePaul |
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1:00pm |
5:00pm |
Group meeting at DePaul (Millennia boardroom) 1:00pm MedIX teams progress reports 2:00pm MedIX seminar: We will discuss the paper “A formal analysis of cytokine networks in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”. The presenters and leaders for the discussion are Nolan and Joe. 3:30pm “A Day in the life of a PhD student” – 5 PhD students will talk about their life and experiences as PhD students. The moderators for the event are Mary and Michael. |
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- Tuesday July 10, 2012
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Lab work and visit to UofC |
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2:00pm |
4:00pm |
UofC Lecture and demonstration of a medical imaging modality |
- Friday July 13, 2012
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Midterm Research Presentations |
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10:00am |
10:30am |
Breakfast |
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10:30am |
3:00pm |
Student Research Presentations +Lunch 10:30-11:15am “Investigating the effect of registration methods on texture analysis using serial thoracic CT scans” Xianhan Fei (Brown University) & Rachel Tuohy (Texas A&M U.) 11:15-12:00pm “Improved Liver Segmentation through Combined MTANN and Gradient Magnitude Filter Edge Enhancement” Dominic Calabrese (University of Michigan) & Karen Zhou (Washington U. in St. Louis) 12:00-12:30pm Lunch 12:30-1:15pm “Determination of Blood Protein Relationships in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) using Network Models Joseph Seemiller” (The University of Scranton) “Classification of CFS based on biological markers and survey data Nolan Gonzalez (Colgate University) 1:15-2:00pm Creation and Evaluation of Probabilistic Classifiers of Semantic Characteristics of Lung Nodules from the LIDC Database” Sydney Williams (Illinois Institute of Technology) & Michael Harris (Sonoma State University) 2:00-2:45pm “Early Experiences with Alice” Gina Griza (Glenbrook South High School) “Exploring Searching and Sorting Time Complexity” Ruxandra Griza (Glenbrook South High School) “Distributed Systems through Virtualization” Lauren Ribordy (Glenbrook South High School) “Many-Task Computing on GPGPUs” Benjamin Grimmer (Illinois Institute of Technology) 2:45-3:00pm Survey |
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- Friday July 20, 2012
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Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars |
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9:00am |
2:00pm |
Lab work at UofC, NU and DePaul |
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2:00pm
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5:00pm |
Group meeting at DePaul (Millennia boardroom) 2:00-3:00pm progress reports from each team 3:00-4:00pm paper presentation and discussion "Computer-aided measurement of liver volumes in CT by means of geodesic active contour segmentation coupled with level-set algorithms," Presenters and leaders for discussion are Dom and Karen 4:00-5:00pm how to write a research paper (Dr. Furst) |
- Tuesday July 24, 2012
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Lab work and visit to UofC |
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2:00pm |
4:00pm |
UofC Lecture and demonstration of a medical imaging modality |
- Friday July 27, 2012
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Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars |
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9:00am |
1:00pm |
Lab work at UofC and DePaul |
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1:00pm |
5:00pm |
Group meeting at DePaul (Millennia boardroom) 1:00-2:30pm – progress report: The focus of the discussion will be on the results for each specific project. 2:30-3:00pm – survey 3:00-3:30pm – lunch 3:30-5:00pm Women in Science – 3 faculty from different institutions will talk about their career and personal life. The moderators for the event are Joe and Karen.
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- Friday August 3, 2012
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Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars |
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9:00am |
2:00pm |
Lab work at UofC and DePaul |
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2:00pm |
5:00pm |
Group meeting at DePaul (Millennia boardroom) 2:00pm -2:15pm– lunch 2:15pm -3:30pm progress report: The focus of the discussion will be on the results for each specific project 3:30pm -4:30pm – paper discussion”” A new approach to quantifying lung damage after stereotactic body radiation therapy”. The presenters and leaders for the discussion are Mary and Rachel. |
- Friday August 10, 2012
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Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars |
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9:00am |
1:00pm |
Lab work at UofC and DePaul |
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1:00pm |
5:00pm |
Group meeting at DePaul (Millennia boardroom) 1:00pm -2:00pm progress report: The focus of the discussion will be on the research hypothesis and how the current results support the research hypothesis 2:00pm-2:30pm survey and lunch 2:30pm -3:30pm – paper discussion” Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning”. Presenters and leaders for the discussion are Michael and Sydney. 3. 3:30-5:00pm Research at CDM – 3 CDM faculty will present their research in human computer interaction, computer graphics, and requirements traceability. The moderators for the event are Nolan, Mary, and Rachel. |
- Tuesday August 14, 2012
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Lab work and visit to UofC |
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2:00pm |
4:00pm |
UofC Lecture and demonstration of a medical imaging modality |
- Friday August 17, 2012
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Project demos and deliverables are due |
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9:00am |
9:30am |
Breakfast |
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9:30am |
3:00pm |
Student Research Presentations +Lunch (DePaul Center room 11013) 9:30-10:30am
Investigating the effect of registration methods on texture analysis using
serial thoracic CT scans Xianhan Fei (Brown University) & Rachel Tuohy
(Texas A&M U.) 10:30-11:30pm
Improved Liver Segmentation through Combined MTANN and Gradient Magnitude
Filter Edge Enhancement Dominic Calabrese (University of Michigan) &
Karen Zhou (Washington U. in St. Louis) 11:30-1:00pm
Lunch (DePaul Center room 11013) 1:00-2:00pm
Determination of Blood Protein Relationships in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(CFS) using Network Models Joseph Seemiller (The University of Scranton) Classification
of CFS based on biological markers and survey data Nolan Gonzalez (Colgate
University) 2:00-3:00pm Creation and Evaluation of Probabilistic Classifiers of Semantic Characteristics of Lung Nodules from the LIDC Database Sydney Williams (Illinois Institute of Technology) & Michael Harris (Sonoma State University |
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3:00pm |
3:30pm |
Exit Program
Survey |
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3:30pm 5:00pm |
5:00pm 7:00pm |
Deliverables
are due: final presentation, final report, any submitted papers, nuggets,
code and documentation Farewell
Dinner
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