Possible projects

What follows is a sampling of the types of projects which are of interest to CREATE-MIA's industrial partners and which could form the basis for an internship.  Please note that this list is not exhaustive and is subject to change at any time.

Imeka

• Multi-modal image registration
• 2D-3D-4D segmentation
• Interactive real-time fiber tracking

NeuroRx Research

• automatic detection of bad registration between two scans;
• robust intensity normalization;
• robust tissue classification/segmentation;
• automatic detection of magnetic distortion;
• automatic detection of motion artifacts, especially ringing and aliasing;
• automatic detection of interpacket motion artifacts;
• automatic detection of contrast (e.g. t1p, t2w, pdw)
• intracranial cavity segmentation.

ORS

• Registration mesh to mesh
• Deviation mesh to mesh
• Bone removal in CT (torso, leg and head)
• Table-gantry removal in CT
• Coding of the fast sweeping algorithm (mesh and volumetric)
• 2D variational interpolation to do m to n contour interpolation (contour living on plane with the same normal vector)
• Entropy minimization base shading correction for FIB imaging
• Open porous material chambers segmentation (FIB and Micro CT)
• Grain segmentation (FIB and Micro CT)

Synaptive Medical

• diffusion MRI
• fibre mapping and tractography
• registration and visualization methods
• tissue segmentation/differentiation
• navigation system accuracy
• MRI distortion correction

True Positive Medical Devices

• unit testing for the Montreal Neurological Institute's MINC software suite
• unit testing for our product suite: VolMETRIX, VasoMETRIX, AlzMETRIX, and MCIMETRIX
• sensitivity analysis for individual processing steps
• image processing database interface building
• automated input/output data quality control tools (implementation + testing)