Laboratory of Medical Imaging High Performance Computing and Informatics

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[Aug. 24, 2011] Dr. Jun Ni gave a presentation of Spectrum of Future Medical Imaging Informatics at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

[July 9, 2011] Dr. Jun Ni gave a invited series lectures on System of Systems Engineering for 21 century engineering integrations at the summer public programs at the National University of Defense Science and Technology, Changsha, China,

[April, 2011] Dr. Jun Ni gave an invited presentations on Emerging Computing Technology for Materials Processing and Mechanical Properties Predictions, during Tsinghua University’s 100 year anniversary, Tsinghua University, Beijing China

[May, 2011] Dr. Jun Ni gave presentations on Creative Thinking and Innovation, HPC and Parallel Computing for Medical Imaging with MPI , and System of Systems (SOSE) Engineering Concepts and Practices for Healthcare Systems Implementation at Beijing Aerospace General Hospitals, Space Science and Technology Corp, Beijing, China

[ Feb. 14, 2011] Dr. Jun Ni, Computations of Biotransport Phenomena during Nanothermotherapy, College of Graduate and Biosciences Programs, University of Iowa, USA

[April 30, 2011]] Dr. Jun Ni, Spectrum of Medical Imaging Informatics, April, Henan Economics and Law University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

[ Oct. 31, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni gave a presentation on How to Mapping Yourself in Science and Engineering Study, Harbin Engineering University, China

[Sept. 10, 2010] Welcome two new members Dr. Zhengge Huang and Ms. Haiping Wang join our lab. Both received Chinese Federal Funds which support their research work at the University of Iowa. Dr. Jun Ni will be the Thesis co-Advisor. Their stuidt at UI will be from Spet, 2010 to Aug. 2011.

[Aug. 26, 2010] Jun Ni, Modeling of Biotransport Phenomena during Nanothermotherapy,
Graduate Seminar, College of Engineering, University of Iowa, China

[June 24, 2010] Nvidia Supports MiHI Lab Nvidia's Professional Solution Business Department provides a Nvidia's device GPU with a model Quadro FX 5800 for medical rendering and CUDA programming. With advances in GPU architecture and computing environments, the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800 featuring 240 CUDA parallel processing cores, provides professionals with visual supercomputing from their desktops delivering results that push visualization beyond traditional 3D.

[ Aug. 19, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni, Research Domain of Medical Imaging Informatics, Bioscience Programs, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA

[May 6, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni gave a talk about Ontology-based Domain of Medical Imaging Informatics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Iowa, USA

[April 12, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni gave an invited talk on Multi-scale Modeling and Petascale Simulation of Biotransport Phenomena during Nanothermotherapy, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

[April 3, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni gave a presentation on Data Visualization in Biomedical Science, The Fifth Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day --- Mathematics for Women, University of Iowa, Department of Mathematics, April 3, 2010, USA

[March 9, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni gave a presentation on Multi-scale Modeling and Petascale Simulation of Biotransport Phenomena during Nanothermotherapy, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, March 9, 2010, USA

[April 2, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni gave an invited talk on Spectrum of CF21-enabled Medical Imaging Informatics Colloquium at University of Akron, USA

[April 2, 2010] Dr. Jun Ni gave an invited talk on US Federal Science and Technology & Information Roadmap and Cyberinfrastructure for the 21 Century (CF21), Department of Computer Science, University of Akron, USA

[Dec. 22, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni gave a lecture talk on"Introduction to CUDA and OpenCL --- Development Interfaces for Multicore Programming," and "Introduction to Cloud Computing and Enabling Technology of Multicore Computing for Medical Imaging" at College of Computer Science & Technology, Harbin Engineering University, China

[Dec. 21, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni chaired The Fourth International Conference on Internet Computing for Science and Engineering (ICICSE|09)

[Dec. 14, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni gave two lecture talks on "Ontology-based Medical Imaging Informatics Development and Envision" and "Three Dimensional Tomosynthesis in Breasting Imaging and Molecular Imaging" at the 21 Century Forum, Special Invited Lecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Medical School

[Dec. 14, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni gave invited lecture on Ontology-based Medical Imaging Informatics Development and Envision, 21 Century Forum special invited lecture talk, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Medical School, China

[Dec. 1, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni and Simon Kao presented How Do the Shape and Orientation of A Tumor Mass Affect the Accuracy Estimating Its Size Using RECIST? Radiology Society of North America (RNSA 2009), Chicago

[Nov. 15, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni presented A Multi-scale Modeling and Large-scale Computations of Biotransport in Nanothermo/Chemoradiation Therapies, Workshop of High Performance Computing for Nanosceince and Nanotechnology (HPCNano2009) in ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference 2009, Portland, OR

[Nov. 15, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni chaired the fourth high performance computing for nanotechnology (HPCNano'09) in conjunction with IEREE/ACM Supercomputing 2009.

[Nov. 5, 2009] Dr. Jun Ni gave an invited lecture talk about ontological model for medical imaging at Grinnell College, Iowa

[ Oct. 29, 2009] Jun Ni, Multi-scale Modeling and Large-scale Simulations of Biotransports in Nanothermo/Chemo-radiation Therapies, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, University of Iowa

[ Oct. 28,, 2009] Jun Ni, Ontological Domain Modeling of Medical Imaging Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Simpson College, Oct. 28, 2009

[Oct. 23, 2009] Jun Ni gave an invited lecture talk about medical imaging informatics at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa

[Sept.21, 2009] Jun Ni received another NSF grant $50,000 to organize a NSF workshop on emerging model and petascale computing for nanosceince and nanotechnology. The workshop will provide education programs for K12/undergraduate, and graduate, faculty members whoa re interested in large-scale computations in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The workshop will be held at UIUC-NCSA. Workshop web site can be found here. The workshop also has a special topic in nanomedicine and nanao-enabling technology for medical imaging.

[Sept. 19, 2009] The Medical Imaging Informatics Wiki Server (Mi2Wiki) starts. It was technically built by Dr. Jun Ni, using RedHat Enterprise 5.3 with Apache Web server, PHP scripting, MySQL, and MediaWiki, The The web address: mi2wiki.radiology.uiowa.edu

[Sept. 10, 2009] Welcome two new members Mr. Changming Zhu and Ms. Yanbo Li join our lab. Both received Chinese Federal Funds which support their Ph.D. D thesis work at the University of Iowa. Dr. Jun Ni will be the Thesis co-Advisor. Their studies at UI will be from Sept, 2009 to Aug. 2010.

[Aug. 10, 2009] Jun Ni gave a presentation on Introduction to Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Mayo Clinics, MN

[Aug. 7, 2009] Jun Ni coordinated and instructed a series of lectures on Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering, Message Passing Interface Programming I,Message Passing Interface Programming II, Introduction to Multi-core, Multithread, and GPU Programming, Multi-scale Modeling and Simulations in computational science and engineering at the Iowa HPC Summer School, University of Iowa, USA

[June 29, 2009] Jun Ni, Spectrum of Cyber-enabled Radiology Informatics, Minnesota Super-computing Institute for Advanced Computational Research, University of Minnesota,

[June 11, 2009] Jun Ni, Multi-scale Model and Simulations of Melting, Crystallization/Solidification, and Saturation in Nano Particle Processing, NSF, Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) in Nano-science and Nanotechnology, the University of Iowa

[ April 25, 2009] Jun Ni, Orchestra of Medical Imaging Informatics Research and Education, Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium Meeting

[April 14, 2009] Jun Ni, Effects of Tumor Orientations and Principal Axis Ratios on the Volumetric Measurements of Tumor Ellipsoidal Model, Radiology Faculty Meeting, Department of Radiology, Caver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

[March 24, 2009] Jun Ni, Envisioning Future Radiology Informatics, Radiology Faculty Meeting, Department of Radiology, Caver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

[ Jan. 30, 2009] Jun Ni, Emerging Models and Technologies for Multi-scale Modeling and
Simulations of Nano-structured Material Formations and Property Predictions, Computer Science Colloquium, The University of Iowa

[Sept. 11, 2008] Dr. Jun Ni, “Challenges of Modeling and Computations in Nanoscale Electronics and Applications”, Graduate Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Sept. 11, 2008.

[Sept. 1, 2008] Dr. Jun Ni received NSF grant $50,000 to organize a national NSF Workshop on Computations in Nanoelectronics (NSF-WCNE'08). The workshop provides undergraduate/graduate training session, professional presentation session, and collaboration/discussion session. The workshop information will be announced lately. The grant will provide many students fellowships, and top-level literature awards and fellowships. The workshop will be organized by NSF, UNiversity of Iowa, and NCSA at UIUC.

[June 11, 2008] Microsoft News Press released the article about" Universities Choose Microsoft High-Performance Computing to Advance Innovative Research". It s cites several academic customers report ease of development and deployment in ventures ranging from biotechnology to urban modeling. The press cites our lab's research. More ...

"At the University of Iowa, CCS 2003 is being used for HPC efforts in medical research and specifically for improving digital medical imaging. The increased tomography image resolution generated from HPC is helping to improve digitalized diagnostic systems for cancer and other health issues. More information about HPC efforts at the University of Iowa is available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~mihpclab

[June 5, 2008] Dr.. Jun Ni gave a informal talk about cyber-enabled HPC for accelerating medical imaging & informatics research at NCSA Brown bag lunch meeting.

[June 2, 2008 ] Dr. Jun Ni received 2008 summer NCSA summer faculty fellowship, working on cyberinfrastructure.

[April, 4, 2008] Laurie Fajardo, M.D., professor and head of radiology in the University of Iowa's Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, received the Gold Medal Award from the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) at its annual meeting March 25-29 in Seattle. more ...

[Feb. 10, 2008] Microsoft interviewed Dr. Ni at IEEE/ACM Super-computing Conference (SC07). The interview video is on Microsoft Web site under "High Productivity Computing in Science and Education"Nov. 12, 2007

[Nov. 12, 2007] Dr. Jun Ni will give a feature talk at First Annual Microsoft High Performance Computing Summit, invited by Microsoft, at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC|07), Reno, NV. (click here for details)

[September 9, 2007] Dr. Jun Ni, as PI, received NSF research grant of $240,000 for three year research in parallel computing of modeling and simulation of nanocystalization/solidification

[July 10, 2007] Microsoft sponsored our Lab to configure our Intel granted HPC cluster to be one of few dual operated systems. This project is sponsored by Microsoft HPC division. X-ISS from Houston is responsible to conduct and implement technical installation. This project is initiated and collaborated by our lab and Microsoft.

[March 20, 2007] Dr. Brian Harmmond from Microsoft visited UI and MiHi Lab. He gave a presentation about Microsoft's HPC infrastructure and business solutions. Click here for details. Microsoft will work close with our lab projects related to HPC solutions to medical imaging and health science.

[Jan. 13, 2007] Microsoft HPC Team will help us develop a duel operated systems on the Intel contributed HPC system. Our lab's benchmarks will be demonstrated at IEEE/ACM SC07, in Reno, nevada.

[July 20, 2007] Welcome new members, Puja and Nedim. Puja is a CS Ph.D. student and she came from India. She has a strong background in database and programming. Nedim is a graduate student in UI business school. He came from Turkey. He has a strong background in management, information system, and programming as well.

[Aug. 10, 2007] Google recruits our lab's members.

[Dec. 20, 2006] Thanks to Intel Technology Initiatives Group! At IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC|06), Intel Corporation decided to grant to Dr. Jun Ni a high-end high performance computing system. The system has Intel's 48 nodes (96 processors), each of which has Intel's fast Xeon duel processors (3.4GHz), 4GB memory and 100GB and with 10G InfiniBand interconnection. The system costs about $500,000.00. It was developed by VXTech (http://www.vxtech.com/). The system will be used for perform high performance computing and medical imaging and data processing in medical image information systems The system was delivered by Intel on Dec.18, 2006. Thanks to the ITS's support, the system is physically located at ITS's Academic - Research Services (ATRS) HPC and Data center (EMRB 74)in UI Medical Research Center. In addition to the Intel's Technology Initiatives Group's hardware support, Intel and Dr. Jun Ni's research lab will collaborate couple research and education projects related to HPC-powered medical imaging, medical image informatics, and medical imaging Grids.

[Aug. 20, 2006] Congratulations to Jun Ni (PI), Hengyong Yu (co-PI), and Ge Wang (co-PI) who recently received $221,000 (2006-2007), NIH-R21 grant to conduct research on a large-scale parallel Katsevich algorithm for 3D CT image reconstruction and Grid-based image reconstruction using NSF TeraGrid facility.

[Aug. 20, 2006] Congratulations to Dr. Ge Wang, Lab co-director, who will be leaving for Virginia Tech. Ge was named as the Samuel Reynolds Pritchard Professor in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. The detailed news can be found here. Ge will continue play his important role in our medical imaging research as the Lab's honorable director.

[July 20, 2006] Welcome to our new members. Mr. Fan Yang, Meenal Vijay Kashikar, Professor Zhengge Huang, and Professor Joe Zhang.

[June 14, 2006] Fan is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer. He graduated with his BSE from the University of Iowa. He joined Professor Jack D. Scudder's research group Department of Physics & Astronomy, when he was a undergraduate student. He worked on the MR image reconstruction algorithm with Professor Daniel R. Thedens in Department of Radiology and Professor John P. Robinsonan in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

[June 14, 2006] Meenal is a graduate student from the department of computer science. Before she joined our UI, she worked on many IT projects in India-based enterprises companies. Her experience in database development and Java programming will help our development in medical imaging research and applications.

[June 14, 2006] Professor Zhengge Huang is an Associate Professor in Zhejiang University. She is taking sabbatical leave and came here to continue her research work with us. She will join our research team as a research investigator. She has great experience in manage many research projects. Her involvement will make our team much stronger.

[June 14, 2006] Professor Joe Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has great experience in fluorescence-enhanced optical imaging and tomography for diagnostics of breast cancer. He is also an outstanding researcher in high performance computing enhanced medical imaging. he will work closely with Jun Ni to pursue large-scale, HPC enhanced research and to work on common NIH and NSF grant applications.