Ganesh Swami

Sometime last week, the members of the Medical Image Analysis Lab held an openhouse to attract new students. The idea was to showcase some of the work being done and I guess to see how this is relevant in the long run.

Download the full resolution of the handouts.

The aforementioned report is now ready for your immediate consumption. A single slide on my Fluid Match has been expanded to a whole section. Took me a little longer than I thought it would, but this is behind me now. I think I’ve more or less achieved what I set in front of me eight months back.

I could have talked about the implementation for a massively parallel supercomputer, but I was already pushing the page limits.

• Variational Inexact Image Matching

Keywords: optimization, variational, registration, diffeomorphisms, fluid-match, statistical tests, Alzheimer’s.

Still Alive. It’s been relatively quite here because I’ve been swamped with end-of-term activities. The problem with working on five year long projects is that deadlines are self-imposed. My strategy has been to make sticky notes with tasks and not getting up until I strike off the task and crumple the note. This has been super effective for me. It’s nice to feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day with the big pile of crumpled notes. Hey, what ever works!

This isn’t so good for learning stuff. I’ve had to do a fair bit of machine learning for some of the tasks I’m doing right now, and all of the language is foreign to me. It took me about a week to learn how to check for group mean differences between samples, but only about an hour to implement it in code. I guess this is “holding a program in one’s head.“

To meet accreditation requirements, Engineering students are required to do a major work term report atleast once. This is a big undertaking. Fortunately, I’m doing mine on my latest infatuation: fluid match. I’ve written a couple of sections, but it’s still lacking cohesiveness.

I’m also happy to say that I’ve decided to do my honors thesis at the Medical Image Analysis Lab, where I’ve been working for the past eight months. The exact details of my project are to worked out, so I don’t have much to say at this point.

I didn’t know what some of the settings on my camera were and this bothered me. I whipped out the manual (I thought I had trashed it, as I usually do) and checked it out. I can now take pictures like the one above with little difficulty, and it looks like I know what I’m doing. It’s still long ways before I exhaust the capabilities of my current camera.

Life’s Good.