1. NA-MIC National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org UCSD / BIRN Coordinating Center NAMIC Group Site PI: Mark H. Ellisman Site Project Lead: Jeffrey S. Grethe

2. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Who are we – people Faculty –Mark Ellisman –Jeffrey Grethe Grid Application Development *Integration of Slicer3 Execution model with Grid infrastructure –Brendan Faherty Portal Development *Integration of NA-MIC Toolkit components w/ User Portal –Ramil Manansala Application Integration *Integration of NA-MIC Toolkit with BIRN environment –Vicky Rowley Systems Support *Support for NA-MIC components of BIRN grid –Bao Nguyen

3. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org Who are we – historical Close collaboration with BWH SPL as part of the BIRN project Leader in enabling scientific research through advanced cyberinfrastructure: –NPACI –Telescience –BIRN Coordinating Center

4. Multiscale Neuroscience from Instruments to Information Technology

5. THE BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH NETWORK LAYOUT FOR PHASE 1 From the Expanding the BIRN Meeting @ NCRR: December. 6 & 7, 2001) At the beginning

6. The BIRN - NAMIC NCBC Collaboratory Today Enabling collaborative research at ~30 research institutions comprised of ~40 research groups. It will no longer matter where data, instruments and computational resources are located!

7. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org What do we contribute Enable researchers to store and interact with large collections of federated data within a distributed data grid –320 subject datasets (including T1, T2, PD, DTI, fMRI) –Since last NA-MIC AHM, more than 2100 downloads of these datasets Provide researchers with access to a computing environment that takes advantage of Grid-based infrastructures –Large scale compute resources are available to NA-MIC researchers (i.e. BIRN, TeraGrid, Optiputer)

8. National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org How do we fit with NAMIC BIRN provides a stable and evolving production infrastructure for support of the distributed collaborative NA-MIC sites Incorporation of NA-MIC toolkit in integrated BIRN software stack NA-MIC extends BIRN environment which helps shape, mature and enhance the deployed BIRN cyberinfrastructure BIRN Focus: infrastructure, data integration, distributed data and computing e.g. Provides shared image databases and high speed network/computing for NA-MIC Focus: algorithms, engineering, general software tools e.g. Analysis of tensor and non-tensor diffusion data at three algorithm groups (UNC, Utah, MGH), hosted on BIRN servers from four clinical sites (Dartmouth, Harvard, UCI, U of Toronto) Infrastructure, Data Requirements, testing, tools