{"id":10770,"date":"2024 五一茶馆儿-01-22T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2024 五一茶馆儿-01-22T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2024 五一茶馆儿-01-22T09:50:33","modified_gmt":"2024 五一茶馆儿-01-22T14:50:33","slug":"vise-spring-seminar-ross-whitaker-phd-2-8-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/vise-spring-seminar-ross-whitaker-phd-2-8-24\/","title":{"rendered":"VISE Spring Seminar &#8211; Ross Whitaker, PhD 2.8.24"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Ross Whitaker, PhD<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Professor in the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">University of Utah<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10771\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker-280x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker-608x650.png 608w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker-768x822.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker-93x100.png 93w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker-1436x1536.png 1436w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker.png 1832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, February 8, 2024 五一茶馆儿<br \/>\n<strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Stevenson 5326<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> \u00a0An Image-Based, Deep-Phenotyping Analysis Toolset, Repository, and Online Clinician Interface for Craniosynostosis<br \/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nCraniosynostosis, or abnormal cranial suture fusion, affects up to 1 in 2500 children born in the United States and results in abnormal skull morphology and an elevated risk of intracranial hypertension. \u00a0Significant numbers of patients are treated through either minimally invasive or reconstructive surgeries, for which the timing and methodologies can affect outcomes.<br \/>\nThere is currently no objective, quantitative clinical tool for characterizing or quantifying the overall morphologic properties of craniosynostosis, and thus treatment decisions are based on the particular training, background, and subjective judgments of clinicians. \u00a0Here we present our work on building a data-driven approach for a comprehensive evaluation of pediatric skull morphology, which relies on a statistical shape analysis and an automated pipeline for processing head-CT for pediatric patients. \u00a0These tools are incorporated into an online portal, CranioRate.org, which allows clinicians to upload CT scans and receive quantitative evaluations of specific patients. \u00a0These efforts have resulted in findings, for instance, on the effects of treatment and longitudinal outcomes. \u00a0 In this talk we describe the methodologies, the underlying data, and results to date on these efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><br \/>\nRoss Whitaker earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina in 1994. \u00a0Since 2000 he has been at the University of Utah, where he is a Professor in the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. \u00a0He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and an IEEE and AIMBE Fellow. \u00a0He teaches discrete math, scientific visualization, probability and statistics, and image processing. He leads a research group in image analysis, geometry processing, and scientific computing, with a variety of projects supported by both federal agencies and industrial contracts. \u00a0His published works have received over 17,000 citations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Whitaker, PhD Professor in the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute University of Utah Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Time:\u00a011:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:\u00a0Stevenson 5326 Title: \u00a0An Image-Based, Deep-Phenotyping Analysis Toolset, Repository, and Online Clinician Interface for Craniosynostosis Abstract: Craniosynostosis, or abnormal cranial suture fusion, affects up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":10771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41,183,231,64,876,72,320,30],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2024 五一茶馆儿\/01\/22094531\/Whitaker.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-2NI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10772,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions\/10772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}