Technology Project: Shape-Based Retrieval of 3D Craniofacial Data

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Technology Project Shape-Based Retrieval of 3D
Craniofacial Data

• PI Linda Shapiro, Ph.D.
• Key Personnel James Brinkley, M.D., Ph.D.
• Michael Cunningham, M.D., Ph.D.
• Collaborators Carrie Heike, M.D. and Tim Cox,
  Ph.D.
• Postdoc Katarzyna Wilamowska, Ph.D.
• RA Indriyati Atmosukarto, Ph.D.
• RA Shulin Yang, MS
• RA Jia Wu, MS
• RA Sara Rolfe, MS
• URA Ambar Choudhury

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Progress on Specific Aims

• Aim 1 Software Tools for Quantification of
  Craniofacial Anatomy
• - Lynn fully automated tool for analysis of CT
  scans and
• production of the cranial image
  representation.
• - Jia fully automated 3D landmark finder for 3D
  meshes.
• - Sara - automated method for extracting the 3D
  contour of
• objects from microCT scans (chick and
  mice embryos).
• - Kasia/Ambar Code repository being built and
  tested.

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• Code Repository
• 1. test code on Windows, Macintosh, and
  Unix systems2. transfer heavily reused code into
  shared code library3. place all code in SVN
  repository4. provide online documentation using
  Doxygen5. store executables in execution tree
  structure6. provide command line calling
  structure for executables
• Aim 2 Similarity Measures- Indri
  Quantification of bin-based representations
  through
• Genetic Programming and use of multiple
  GP results to
• represent a syndrome.
• Aim 3 Organization and Retrieval- Carrie,
  Michael, Kasia design of SQL database schemas,
• which will eventually allow for
  retrievals based on both
• metadata and image similarity.