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Cathy and I are pleased to announce the arrival of
our daughter, Keira Jean Carmichael.
Here are
some photos from her first week of life. And here are
some photos from weeks 2 and 3.
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My grad student Chris Schwarz recently won a
one-year fellowship in the UC Davis T32 Pre-Doctoral
Clinical Research Training Program. Competition was fierce—way to go Chris!
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My grad student Jing Xie published a paper on using Localized Components
Analysis (LoCA) to analyze relationships between fine-scale aspects of
brain structure and cognitive decline in AlzhiemerÕs Disease. Here is a PDF of
the paper. Here is a PDF of
her talk slides.
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Pete Harris published the results of his research project in my lab
on relationships between brain structure and hypertension in a cohort of
elderly Icelandic individuals: Here is a link to
the paper.
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I am teaching a new course in Spring 2008: ECS 289H, Advanced
Image Processing and Analysis.
UCD grad students interested in dealing with imaging data should
check it out!
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New paper: Abnormal
Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Cognitively Normal Elderly Subjects With
Hypertension. This is one
of the results from Weiying DaiÕs PhD project on sophisticated techniques
for measuring blood flow in the brain non-invasively.
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Cathy and I recently got married and went on a honeymoon in
China. Here are some wedding photos
and some honeymoon
photos.
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New paper: Cerebral ventricular changes associated with
transitions between normal cognitive function, mild cognitive impairment,
and dementia. This is the third and final paper
about correlations between ventricular expansion, cardiovascular risk
factors, and dementia in the Cardiovascular Health Study.
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I
recently developed Localized
Components Analysis with Nina
Amenta and her grad student, Dan Alcantara. It is a new method for intuitive,
efficient shape analysis that can be applied to a wide variety of
objects—including brain regions.
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Pete
Harris, a member of my lab, published two papers recently: Mild Cognitive Impairment as a
Concept and Clinical Entity appeared in Prized
Writing, a UC Davis journal of undergraduate technical essays; and ItÕs the Thought that Counts: How Scientists
Are Working to Prevent Dementia
appeared in The Voice, a UCD undergraduate health journal.
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Three
members of my lab made presentations about their research projects at the
2007 UC Davis Undergraduate Research
Conference. Their
abstracts are here.
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Gautam
Prasad, an undergraduate researcher in my lab, has accepted a graduate
position in the CS department at UCLA,
where he will work in the Laboratory of
Neuroimaging (LONI). Way
to go, Gautam!
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Christmas photos are
now on line.
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Cathy
and I went to Costa Rica recently.
Here are some photos.
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Gautam
Prasad, an undergrad in my lab, started a
blog to chart his progress as he writes software to do shape-based
brain segmentation techniques.
There are MPEGs showing his image segmentation program in
action. Check it out!
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I
am teaching ECS 189H:
Introduction to Image Processing and Analysis, in the Winter 2007
quarter at UC Davis. It is a
new class-- take it!
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Cathy
and I ran the San Francisco Marathon
on Sunday July 30. We finished
in 4:10. Back in April we ran
the Santa Cruz
Half Marathon and finished in 1:48. Here are some photos
from both.
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New
paper: Mapping
Ventricular Changes Related to Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in a
Large Community-Based Cohort. This paper has cool graphics
showing patterns of brain changes related to aging and dementia.
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New
papers: Acceleration
of cerebral ventricular expansion in the Cardiovascular Health Study and Ventricular
volume and dementia progression in the Cardiovascular Health Study . These describe relationships between
brain structure and cognitive decline in a large study of aging.
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I
accepted a faculty position at UC
Davis. I have a full-time
appointment as Assistant Professor in the Neurology Department, School Of Medicine (Adjunct Series), and
I will soon have a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering. I plan to work closely with members
of the IDEA lab on
geriatric image analysis problems.
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I
am on the program committee of the ICCV workshop on Computer
Vision for Biomedical Image Applications. Check it out if you are going to ICCV!
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West Virginia Photos
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New
technical report: Atlas-Based
Hippocampus Segmentation In AlzheimerÕs Disease and Mild Cognitive
Impairment. (CMU RI tech report CMU-RI-TR-04-53). It summarizes my main research
project from early in my postdoc.
Part of this was published in NeuroImage.
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New
paper: A
Hybrid Object-Level/Pixel-Level Framework For Shape-based Recognition
(BMVC 2004). This paper talks
about an extension to the basic shape-based object recognition approach in
my thesis.
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New
paper: Discriminative MR
Image Feature Analysis for Automatic Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
Disease Classification. (CMU RI tech report and MICCAI
Õ04). The title is pretty
self-explanatory.
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New
paper: Shape-based Recognition of Wiry
Objects (PAMI). This is
supposed to be the main journal article summing up the basic algorithm and
experiments detailed in my thesis.
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Photos from graduation
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Concerned Kitty page!
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Started
helping out with maintaining The
Computer Vision Home Page
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Re-designed
web site. Check it out!
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Created
WORD, the Wiry Object
Recognition Database
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Page
for the new ADRC
Neuroimaging Journal Club
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Page
on my current research in medical image
analysis
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