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Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

Coordinates: 40°46′3.72″N 111°50′42.00″W

The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is a


permanent research institute at the University of Utah that focuses Scientific Computing and
on the development of new scientific computing and visualization Imaging Institute
techniques, tools, and systems with primary applications to
biomedical engineering.[1][2] The SCI Institute is noted worldwide
in the visualization community for contributions by faculty, alumni,
and staff.[3] Faculty are associated primarily with the School of
Computing, Department of Bioengineering, Department of
Mathematics, and Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, with auxiliary faculty in the Medical School and
School of Architecture.

History
The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute started in 1992 as
a research group in the University of Utah School of Computing
by Chris Johnson and Rob MacLeod. In 1994 this group became
the Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging, and in 2000 the
name was changed to the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI)
Established 1994
Institute. In 2007, the SCI Institute was awarded funding from
USTAR to recruit more faculty in medical imaging technology. Research type Computer science
The SCI Institute was recognized as an NVIDIA CUDA Center of and translational
Excellence in 2008.[4] In 2011, USTAR funding allowed faculty research
recruitment for genomic signal processing and information Field of Scientific
visualization. in 2014, Intel partnered with the SCI Institute to form research visualization, High
the Intel Parallel Computing Center for Scientific Rendering to
performance
research and develop large scale and in situ visualization
computing, Image
techniques for Intel hardware.[5]
analysis
Director Dr. Manish
Research Parashar

The overarching research objective of the Scientific Computing Location Salt Lake City,
and Imaging Institute is to conduct application-driven research in Utah
the creation of new scientific computing techniques, tools, and Affiliations University of Utah
systems. Given the proximity and availability of research School of
conducted at the University of Utah School of Medicine, a main
Computing
application focus is medicine. SCI Institute researchers also apply
University of Utah
computational techniques to scientific and engineering sub-
School of
Medicine
University of Utah
specialties, such as fluid dynamics, biomechanics, College of
electrophysiology, bioelectric fields, scientific visualization, Engineering
parallel computing, inverse problems, and neuroimaging.
Operating University of Utah
agency
Open source software releases Website www.sci.utah.edu
(http://www.sci.uta
The SCI Institute releases open source software packages for many h.edu/)
of the projects developed by researchers for use by the
scientific visualization and medical imaging communities. All
projects are released under the MIT software license. Notable
projects released by SCI include:

SCIRun - Problem Solving Environment (PSE), for


modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific
problems
ImageVis3D - volume rendering application with
multidimensional transfer function visualization
support
Seg3D - interactive image segmentation tool
ViSUS - Visualization Streams for Ultimate
Scalability
ShapeWorks - statistical shape analysis tool that A CT scan of a human torso rendered with
constructs compact statistical point-based models of ImageVis3D
ensembles of similar shapes that does not rely on
any specific surface parameterization
FluoRender - interactive rendering tool for confocal
microscopy data visualization.
VisTrails - scientific workflow management system.
Cleaver - multi-material tetrahedral meshing API and
application
FEBio - nonlinear finite element solver specifically
Volumetric data of an aorta labeled
designed for biomechanical applications
with regions of interest using Seg3D
VISPACK - C++ library that includes matrix, image, and and then interactively rendered in
volume objects SCIRun.
Teem - collection of libraries for representing, processing,
and visualizing scientific raster data
Manta Interactive Ray Tracer - interactive ray tracing environment designed for both
workstations and supercomputers

Notable researchers and alumni


David M. Beazley - wrote Python Essential Reference, co-awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in
1993 and in 1998
Juliana Freire - developed VisTrails, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Amy Ashurst Gooch - developed Gooch shading for non-photo realistic rendering (NPR),
authored first book on NPR
Charles D. Hansen - co-editor of The Visualization Handbook
Gordon Kindlmann - developed tensor glyphs
Aaron Lefohn - Director of Research at NVIDIA
Miriah Meyer - TED Fellow and MIT Technology Review TR35 listee, pioneer in interactive
visualization for basic research
Erik Reinhard - Distinguished Scientist at Technicolor Research and Innovation, founder
and Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
Theresa-Marie Rhyne - founding director of the SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization
Project and the Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Visualization Center
Peter Shirley - Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA recognized for contributions to real time ray
tracing
Claudio Silva - chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and
Graphics, developed VisTrails
Peter-Pike Sloan - developed the precomputed radiance transfer rendering method
Ross Whitaker - director of the University of Utah School of Computing and IEEE Fellow

External links
SCI Institute GitHub (https://github.com/SCIInstitute)
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute: A History (http://www.sci.utah.edu/~nathang/histo
ry/SCI-History.pdf)

References
1. "Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute – Home" (http://www.sci.utah.edu/home.html).
Retrieved 16 April 2013.
2. Lipson, Hod; Kurman, Melba (2013). Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing.
Indianapolis, IN: Wiley. p. 121. ISBN 978-1118350638.
3. Shneiderman, Ben. The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-875883-9.
4. Humber, Andrew (31 July 2008). "NVIDIA Recognizes University Of Utah As A Cuda Center
Of Excellence" (http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1217508281856.html). NVIDIA. Retrieved
8 April 2017.
5. "Intel® Parallel Computing Center at SCI Institute, University of Utah | Intel® Software" (http
s://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-parallel-computing-center-at-sci-institute-university-
of-utah). Intel Developer Zone. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2017.

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