mccool@csri.toronto.edu (Michael David McCool) (10/24/89)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I'm shopping for a place to do a PhD in volume visualization, and need some leads to good places to study. My major interest is Biomedical (BOTH Bio and Medical) although I could be tempted by other applications. Who is doing work in these areas? I need someplace where I can earn a TECHNICAL degree, since I'm a Computer Engineer, not an M.D. I suspect my lifetime is finite. The best would be a computer science school with close ties to a medical school (you can see why this could be a problem). Specific research interests: Slice->volume interpolation Interactive (e.g. FAST) volume rendering Opacity/Colour mapping (e.g. Tissue classification) Integration of rendering techniques solid voxels, ray traced voxels, polygonal surfaces, etc. Transparency/Lighting models for semitransparent volumes Cognitive models for user interpretation of semitransparent data (with feedback into the previous model) User Interfaces for interacting with a volume renderer... data exploration Computer Architectures for volume rendering Parallelism, memory architectures, etc. I'm currently doing a Computer Science Master's in this area. I graduated at the top of my class in Computer Engineering at Waterloo, & have worked in industry (ISG Technologies) on a 3D medical rendering workstation. Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions or if you have such a program at your location. Michael D. McCool mccool@csri.toronto.edu mccool@csri.utoronto.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneel down beside the thing he had put together..." -- Mary Shelly