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Synergies in geophysical, medical, and space imaging

2001 SEG Summer Research Workshop

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Rapid advances are occurring in diverse branches of imaging science and engineering—including our own. The geophysical, medical, and space imaging communities share many similar challenges and research opportunities. Imaging research has often been energized by an influx of new theories and methods from related disciplines, and now seems an excellent time to compare notes with our fellow imaging researchers.

The goal of the SEG 2001 Summer Research Workshop "Synergies in Geophysical, Medical, and Space Imaging," was to encourage cross-fertilization among imaging physicists in these three disciplines. The workshop was held 22–26 July 2001 in Newport Beach, California, U.S., to attract attendees from the sizable local medical and space imaging communities. The intent was for each discipline to present a tutorial on its imaging applications and share state-of-the-art imaging techniques and "road ahead" imaging research challenges. (See accompanying box for session topics, titles of individual presentations, and speakers.)

The workshop consisted of seven half-day sessions, each with an emphasis on lively group discussion of technical material presented in talks or posters. Of the 81 attendees, approximately 50% were geophysicists; the remaining 50% were members of the medical and space imaging communities. As anyone who has organized a multidiscipline workshop knows, it is often very difficult to get more than 10–20% attendance from members outside the sponsoring society—so 50% medical and space participation was outstanding. There was a fairly balanced mix of industry, national lab, and university researchers. Many space-imaging scientists came from JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab), NASA, Caltech, Scripps, and Stanford University. Many medical-imaging scientists came from research facilities or companies in southern California, the San Francisco Bay area, Colorado, and the Seattle area. There was excellent representation from the European community. During . . . [Full Text of this Article]