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SUMMARY:From Medical Images to Virtual Physiological Humans - Prof. Nicola
 s Ayache\, INRIA
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CONTACT:Dr Fabien Petitcolas
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: I will describe the increasing role of computation
 al models of anatomy and physiology coupled with medical images to build v
 irtual models of humans useful for the diagnosis of a disease and for the 
 planning and simulation of a therapy.\n\nThese computational models often 
 involve geometrical\, statistical\, physical\, and biological models at va
 rious scales.\n\nI illustrate my presentation with three recent research p
 rojects of our team with partners:\n\n# the statistical modeling and analy
 sis of sulcal lines on the brain cortex\;\n# the modeling and simulation o
 f brain tumors evolution\;\n# the electro-mechanical modeling of the heart
  function\;\n\nand I conclude with some promising trends\, including the a
 nalysis of in vivo microscopic images.\n\nReferences available at http://w
 ww-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/\n\n\n*Biography*: Nicholas Ayache is a Research
  Director at INRIA\, the French Research Institute of Computer Science and
  Automatic Control\, where he leads the "ASCLEPIOS":http://www-sop.inria.f
 r/asclepios/ project-team whose research focuses on analysis and simulatio
 n of biomedical images. Nicholas also teaches graduate courses of Computer
  Vision and Image processing\, in the applied mathematics department of th
 e École Centrale de Paris\, and at École Normale Supérieure.\n\nNichola
 s’ current research interests are in biomedical image analysis and simul
 ation. This includes the analysis of medical and biological images with ad
 vanced geometrical\, statistical\, physical and functional models\, the si
 mulation of physiological systems with computational models built from bio
 medical images and other signals\, and the application of these tools to m
 edicine and biology to better assist prevention\, diagnosis and therapy of
  diseases.\n\nNicholas is the recipient of the Grand Prize EADS 2006 and t
 he 2008 "Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Award":http://
 royalsociety.org/microsoft/.
LOCATION:Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road
 )\, Cambridge
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