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SUMMARY:Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image Analysis - 
 Professor John Reppy\, Dept. of Computer Science\, University of Chicago
DTSTART:20100906T100000Z
DTEND:20100906T110000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:The analysis of structure in three-dimensional images is incre
 asingly\nvaluable for biomedical research and computational science.  At t
 he\nsame time\, the computational burden of processing images is increasin
 g\nas devices produce images of higher resolution (e.g.\, typical CT scans
 \nhave gone from 128^3 to roughly 512^3 resolutions).  With the latest\nsc
 anning technologies\, it is also more common for the the values measured\n
 at each sample to be multi-dimensional rather than a single scalar\, which
 \nfurther complicates implementing mathematically correct methods.\n\nDide
 rot is a domain-specific language (DSL) for programming advanced\n3D image
  visualization and analysis algorithms.  These algorithms\,\nsuch as volum
 e rendering\, fiber tractography\, and particle systems\,\nare naturally d
 efined in terms of a continuous tensor field that\nis reconstructed from t
 he discrete image data.  There are three main\ngoals for the Diderot proje
 ct:\n\n  1) provide a high-level mathematical programming model that will 
 enable rapid prototyping and exploration of the algorithmic design space.\
 n\n  2) enable high-performance implementations across a range of parallel
 \n     platforms. by exploiting the domain-specific knowledge and the inhe
 rentparallelism in image analysis.\n\n  3) Enable scientists to develop th
 eir own image analyses and visualizations.\n\nThis talk will give an overv
 iew of the Diderot project and describe some\nof the research problems tha
 t we must solve to attain our goals.\n\nDiderot is joint work with Gordon 
 Kindlmann and Lamont Samuels.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Room\, Microsoft Research\, Roger Needham Building\
 , 7 J J Thomson Avenue\, Cambridge CB3 0FB
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