Computer Science

Colloquium Details

Biomedical modeling: From 3D images to computational models

Abstract

The last several years has seen a tremendous advance in both the quantity and quality of biomedical image data. This data provides an unprecedented opportunity for biologists to visualize and understand complex biological processes. Unfortunately, processing this data into useful computational forms is both challenging and time-consuming. I discuss two advances in this area: 1) Simplifying the contouring process (joint with colleagues in Radiology) and 2) Using strain to establish correspondences between changing surfaces (joint with colleagues in Neural studies, Heart development, and Mechanical engineering).

Biography

Cindy Grimm received her undergraduate degrees from U.C. Berkeley in both Art and Computer Science in 1990. She finished her Ph.D. at Brown in 1996 in the area of surface modeling under the direction of Dr. John Hughes. She then spent three years as a post doc at Microsoft Research working on facial animation, returning to Brown for a (short) second post doc. At Brown she looked at shape classification and worked with Dr. Laidlaw and Dr. Crisco on modeling the bones of the wrist. Cindy joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis in 2000, working in the areas of art-based rendering and surface modeling. She received a CAREER award in 2003, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2007. Cindy's research interests are in perception, art-based modeling and rendering, and biomedical surface reconstruction and comparison.