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Image Processing, Perception and Display Group Members • • • • • • • Eyal Margalit (UNMC) Tim Baxter (UNMC) Balasubraniam Sajja (UNMC) Khalid Sayood (UNL) Carl Nelson (UNL/UNMC) Cho Wing Solomon To (UNL) Ashok Samal (UNL) Core Ideas • Image Encoder for Mapping Retinal Electrical Stimulation • Advanced Integrated Visual and Perceptual Display for Medical Applications • Management of Massive Medical Image Databases A new retinal prosthesis Curved microwire glass electrode array Microcable replaced with a wireless chip retina silicon multiplexer chip provides patterned electric current pulses indium bumps connect the chip to the electrodes epoxy encapsulation Image Encoder for Mapping Retinal Electrical Stimulation • Restore vision patients blind from retinitis pigmentosa and age related macular degeneration • Provide electrical stimulations to activate the viable cells in the diseased retina • Challenges – Find the parts of the brain that interpret the information – Find a mapping from optical pattern (image) to electrical pattern by encoding what the brain sees – Adjustable by patients – MEG Imaging could be useful – Information compression Image Encoder for Mapping Retinal Electrical Stimulation • People – Eyal Margalit (UNMC) – Sanjay Singh (UNMC) – Wallace Thorson (UNMC) – Bala Sajja (UNMC) – Ashok Samal (UNL) – Khalid Sayood (UNL) • External Resources – Naval Research Lab – College of Computing • Centers – MEG Center Advanced Integrated Visual and Perceptual Display for Medical Applications • Provide innovative and functional interface for medical applications • Include new modalities – Laparoscopic images, MRI data, stress/strain fields, pH, auditory, etc. • Multi sensor fusion • Provide analysis – Preops, real-time interpretations – Pattern analysis and anomalies • Overlay analysis with the images, augmented reality, etc. Advanced Integrated Visual and Perceptual Display for Medical Applications • People – Carl Nelson (UNL/UNMC) – Nick Stergiou (UNO) – Joseph Siu (UNMC) – Shane Farritor (UNL) – Linxia Gu (UNL) – Hani Haider (UNMC) – Ashok Samal (UNL) • External Partners – Expertise and facilities in VR – Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services • Center for Advanced Surgical Technologies (CAST) Management of Massive Medical Image Databases • Electronic Medical Records Act • Interoperability • Efficient use of transmission and storage resources for medical data • Provide tools for measurement (CAD models) from images – Interrelated images – Operationalize (measurements) – Image database management Management of Massive Medical Image Databases • People – Khalid Sayood (UNL) – Mike Hoffman (UNL) – Sina Balkir (UNL) – Rod Markin (UNMC) – Joe Sisson (UNMC) – Bala Sajja (UNMC) – Ashok Samal (UNL) • External Partners – Jerry Gibson (UCSB)