ChapterZero

I’ve been working on the cardiac imaging digital contrast agent project that Bernhard, Papadakis’ last postdoc, was carrying before he got a professorship at the University of Waterloo. Since he was, by all accounts, a genius, and maybe thought that what his code does, and how to use it in conjunction with microView is perfectly obvious… that, and the fact that I’m not a genius, and don’t even understand the paper detailing the algorithm his code implements, has left me spinning my wheels.

It looks like– and here I may be being overly optimistic– Papadakis may be flying Bernhard back to Houston to explain his work to us. This is a very good thing: although I’ve spent much more time on it than I thought I would have to, I still don’t know how to reproduce the results he had. I’ve started reading more on wavelets again, in the probably vain hope that by the time he gets back I’ll have a more solid understanding of the algorithm. The funny thing is, I don’t really need to know how the code works, so much as the logistics of how to choose reference regions from the data input, and processing the data output appropriately.

Possibly relevant posts:

• Mission Accomplished (8/7/2003)
• A Possible Future (6/3/2005)
• State of the Xenon Project (10/6/2004)