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Form 2

Date of meeting: December 15th, 2003.

RESEARCH AIMS & OBJECTIVES

Synopsis of Research Project and overall aims:

• Fully automate obtaining a set of dense correspondences across a set of 3D medical images as a basis for building statistical models of shape and appearance.
• Develop a new approach with a rigorous theoretical basis and compare its performance with existing approaches to the problem.
• Apply the method(s) developed to demonstrate changes in morphology due to disease (or other causes) in a large dataset (eg brain, knee etc).

Objectives of research project for first year (full-time Students) or first two years (part-time Students), including literature searching:

• Establish benchmark results for correspondences obtained using existing non-rigid registration algorithms.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the literature on: non-rigid registration, active shape/appearance models, and minimum description length methods (generally and as applied to shape correspondence).
• Develop a general understanding of current methods and problems in computer vision, with particular emphasis on medical image analysis.
• Carry out initial experiments using synthetic data to gain an insight into the problem of automatic image correspondence and an understanding of the key problem areas.
• Obtain and analyse initial results using both synthetic and real data (possibly only 2-D).
• Develop a plan for future work, based on the experience of the first year.

Key objectives for first 3 months:

• Complete machine learning module successfully.
• Establish a pattern of background reading.
• Undertake a detailed review of the literature in non-rigid registration, active shape/appearance models, and minimum description length methods (generally and as applied to shape correspondence).
• Gain good familiarity with using MATLAB to run computer vision experiments and to analyse results.
• Establish simple 1-D model building framework using MATLAB software from Kate Smith.
• Plan presentation for student seminar.

Key objectives for first year:

• See objectives for first year above.
  
  

VARIOUS COURSES

Table: The courses taken at the beginning of the academic year.

Course/Seminar Title	Dates (if known)
Introductory Course	22/09/03 - 26/09/03
Library Visits	ISBE Research Library: perpetual
Regulatory Core Courses	1/10/03 - 1/06/03
Computing Skills and Statistics	N/A
1st Year Workshop	N/A
Health and Safety Training (Compulsory)	N/A