Dear All,

I hope you and your families had a wonderful holiday season and a joyful new year! …

We will hold our ShapeWorks users get-together on Thursday, Jan 9th at 11 am (see below for more info). 

As a new year treat :),  we will have Dr. Amy Lenz, postdoc research associate in the Orthopedics Research Lab, present her shape modeling story (use case) to characterize anatomical variations in ankles.

In particular, Amy will showcase how she used ShapeWorks tools to perform SSM for a set of three ankle bones in a cohort of healthy individuals.  

Potential agenda:

- Shape modeling results on three ankle bones built using an older ShapeWorks release (ShapeWorksRun4.5)

- Algorithmic parameter choices and learned lessons along the way to achieve a stable solution.

- How we arrive at clinically meaningful results from the significant modes of variation.  

- Comparing these results to our newest model run on the same dataset using the newest release of ShapeWorks, highlighting feature improvements and compare the model development process between the two versions.  

- Preliminary results on a new, larger-scale dataset using the latest ShapeWorks release.

- Open discussion about tuning algorithmic parameters further to arrive at a stable solution.     

When: Thursdays every four weeks starting August 15th from 11am to 1pm MDT.

Where: WEB 2760 (Meldrum conference room)

Joining in person:  Lunch will be ordered with vegetarian and gluten free options. Please let me know if you have any other diet restrictions.

Please let me know if you are going to join in person by tomorrow (Tuesday) Jan 7th EOD to sort out logistics for lunch. Thanks!

Can’t join in person: Below is a recurring zoom invitation for the meeting, please feel free to join remotely if this is more convenient …

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Hi there, 

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 
When: Jan 9, 2020 11:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJcsfumtrDgjuPtnVBOKq3_tV8sU8gsyPw 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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For questions, comments, and feedback: Please use our emailing list shapeworks-users@sci.utah.edu and/or Gitter forum (https://gitter.im/ShapeWorks)

Getting the latest ShapeWorks tools:

Go to the Github page and follow the instructions in the top-level README: https://github.com/SCIInstitute/ShapeWorks 

We also have shape analysis workflows (use cases) scripted in python. Please see https://github.com/SCIInstitute/ShapeWorks/Examples/Python/ 


Looking forward to our discussion! …. and … Happy new year!

thanks and best regards
Shireen


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Shireen Elhabian, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
School of Computing
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
University of Utah
WEB 2815
72 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112
Phone (801) 587-3206
Fax (801) 585-6513
Home Page: http://www.sci.utah.edu/~shireen