Pastoral Statistical Database System (PSDS), 2003-2004
Dr. Jun Ni, Ph.D. and Dr. Larry Shostrom, Ph.D.Project Summary: This project is to create a database management system (DBSM) at Spiritual Services Department at UNiversity of Iowa Helath and Clinic of the University of Iowa. Dr. Larry, is the project leader and Dr. Jun Ni is the project technical leader.. This purpose of this DBMS is to track the daily activities of each chaplain, and generate reports according to the users’ demand. The central entity of the database is CHAPLAIN table. Each category of activity is stored in a set of tables. The database is implemented in Microsoft Office Access 2003. The forms are created using Visual Basic 6.0, and the reports are built in Microsoft Office Access 2003.
Classic Piano Database System (CPDS), 2003
Hanrong Tang and Dr. Jun Ni, Ph.D.
This database system archives thusands of information about piano piecies for piano players and piano note collections. It contains detailed information about each piano pices, composor, music resources, and anthology.
Dr. Jun Ni, Ph.D., Dr. Ge Wang, Ph.D., Dr. Simon Kao, M.D.
Volume estimation by manually tracing regions of
interest (ROI) within cross-sectional images is time-consuming. There
is a great demand for computer scientist and radiologist to commonly develop
a user-friendly, portable, platform-independent, cost-effective, and efficient
tool to calculate a volume of ROI for research, education, and clinical
use. We developed a software tool called voluMeasure that basically uses
(1) a grid-point counting stereological method and (2) Java programming
language to enhance the software’s feasibility, applicability, and
portability. VoluMeasure has a novel and user-friendly interface. It imposes
an adjustable grid on the images. The volume defined by the ROIs is estimated
interactively by semi-automatic computer-counting of points within the
ROIs . Selected points on an image can be carried forward onto the next
image for higher efficiency. Multiple-selection layers and volume rendering
are supported. The selection results can be saved and replayed for further
analyses. The measurement times are recordable for performance evaluation.
The software is compact (<100 KB) and can be installed on any standard
personal computer. VoluMeasure provides radiologists with a valuable clinical,
educational, and research tool. The techniques used in this project reflect
the state-of-the-art software engineering, and unlock the power of the
modern PC system for radiological imaging-based volume measurement. VoluMeasure,
a practical computed aided program can be used to measure the volume of
an anatomic/pathological structure defined by any imaging modality. This
method is efficient, and can produce similar reproducibility and accuracy
to those more complicated methods for volume calculation. VoluMeasureTM,
implemented in the JAVA programming language, has a user-friendly graphical
interface, is computer platform-independent. These attributes qualify
it to be used as a clinical, research, and educational tool for various
users, especially radiologists.
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Thalamus Thalamus Atlas, 2002-2005
Authored by Dr. Igor Ilinsky and Dr. Kristy Kultas-Ilinsky, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, and Boyd Knosp, ITS Academic Technologies-Research Services
Technically developed by Dr. Jun Ni, Ph.D. M.E., and Lili Huang and
This atlas is designed for the use in stereotactic surgery on monkey
thalamus and analysis of experimental results where a thorough knowledge
of the topography and relationships of thalamic nuclei is required. The
atlas was constructed from a series of sagittal, Nissl- stained sections
of the thalamus from an adult Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta). The software
is developed using Java and the software was published by Klawa Academic
Publisher in 2002. The software is programmed by Java.
MIIO ToolKit 1.2a
Desgined and Programmed by Dr. Jun Ni
MIIO TooKit is a Java based utility toolkit for the ontological descriptions of tersm in medical imaging informatics system. It can laso be used to desgin MIII system. The MIIO-TK has several components or modules: file module -- allows users to open file and project; definition module --- for input, modify, and express module; format conversion module --- allows users to convert one expression format to another, visualization module --- allows users to visualize different formatted enmity expression. The current search module is separated form the main MIIO Took Kit. This definition module helps users to define, classify, express entity (attributes) belongs, and entity relationships (is and has). The modules are implemented into MIIO’s functional panel and accessed by a pull-down menu. New functional modules will be added from time to time. Due to MII’s special characteristics, MIIO TK emphasizes on the pissible extension of entity relationships, since in medical imaging informatics the major concerned issues is entity’s relationships, communications in workflow, and interactions with other entities in medical terminologies.