Chairs: Dr Tim Burnett (NXCT) and Dr Adam Sobey (The Alan Turing Institute)

Venue/Date: Zoom virtual meeting, Tuesday 22 June 2021, 10:00 (BST)

Fees: Free of charge.

Description: In this workshop we will share information and challenges relating to the acquisition, reconstruction, visualisation and analysis of large 2D+time, 3D, 3D+time and 4D+ image datasets. The speakers will present some capabilities of X-ray imaging as well as the data and analytical challenges we are facing to further exploit this technology. We will also hear about how X-ray imaging has helped provide data to validate mathematical models and how advanced image analysis approaches can be used to extract information from multi-dimensional datasets. A discussion element of the workshop will focus on identifying major challenges and possible approaches to address these. We hope that we can identify some joint initiatives that from the NXCT side can be supported by access provided to our scanners and computing/software resources.

The event is supported by The Alan Turing Institute, National Research Facility for lab X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT), The Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials and the CCPi Tomographic Imaging Network (University of Manchester).

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AGENDA

A PDF version of the agenda can be downloaded here.

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome, Introductions and Format of the Day

10:15 – 11:00 Overview of NXCT facility and The Alan Turing Institute

Tim Burnett (NXCT), Adam Sobey (The Alan Turing Institute)

11:00 – 12:30 Image-based data and modelling interplay

• 11:00 – 11:30 Will Parnell , The University of Manchester, "Combining imaging and the mathematics of materials for the design of novel composites"
• 11:30 – 12:00 Tiina Roose, The University of Southampton, "Image-based modelling in biology"
• 12:00 – 12:30 Martin Jones , The Francis Crick Institute, "Extracting meaning from big data: image segmentation for volume electron microscopy with crowdsourced training data"

12:30 – 13:15 Roundtable discussions

What are the major challenges in utilising very large multidimensional imaging data to support modelling?

13:15 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00 Novel applications of image-based data to accelerate understanding

• 14:00 – 14:30 Fabrice Pierron, The University of Southampton, "X-ray CT for deformation measurements and material identification"
• 14:30 – 15:00 Thomas Blumensath, The University of Southampton, "Exploiting low dimensional data structures in volumetric imaging"

15:00 – 15:45 Roundtable discussions

Discuss possible solutions to the challenges defined earlier

15:45 – 16:00 Close and Next Steps