Radioactive astronauts: images worth a thousand experiments.
6Google Tech Talks
April, 22 2008
ABSTRACT
Cosmic radiation presents a very real threat to astronauts. As part
of a NASA funded project to evaluate the cancer risks of a trip to Mars,
Dr. Costes' team has been collecting hundreds of gigabytes of 3D and
4D imagery showing the traversal of cosmic particles in human cells,
and characterizing the DNA damage along those tracks to reveal the
existence of DNA repair factories.
In addition to sharing his project with us, Dr. Costes will discuss
how they've overcome some of the challenges in 3D image registration
and segmentation, pattern recognition and classification, and storing,
organizing and browsing through thousands of images and experimental
measurements.
Speaker: Sylvain Costes
Dr. Costes is a principal investigator in the Life Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.