Conference on Discrete Geometry with Applications to Science and Medicine
Wakulla Springs, FL
May 16-19, 2002


Plenary Speaker

Introduction and Overview to Pre-Processing Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data into Discrete Geometric Data

Monica K. Hurdal
Department of Mathematics
Florida State University

This conference has brought together people from a variety of different disciplines including theoretical mathematics, applied mathematics, computer science, statistics, biomedical engineering and neurology. With this broad spectrum of backgrounds in mind, I will give a brief introduction and overview to some of the topics and terminology that will be discussed in more detail throughout this conference. These topics include an introduction to the human brain and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data; an overview of the pre-processing steps that are required to transform MRI data into a form suitable for applying discrete geometric and conformal methods.



Copyright 2002 by Monica K. Hurdal. All rights reserved.