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["Audette, Michel A." <>]

Hello, 

I would like to develop some CGAL-based meshing algorithms, both surface and volume, while processing tractographic data, in conjunction with a simulation proposal. The basic idea is I would like to develop an mesh decomposition of the brain that is sensitive to white-matter tract orientation, where the objective is try to make the element as homogeneous as possible in relation to the underlying tract orientation. This may involve preprocessing based on Connectome Mapping Toolkit (CMTK). In the event that this is successful, it would be better from the proposal standpoint that I contribute this type of meshing algorithm to the open-source community, which could be either to CGAL or to CMTK. 

Would the CGAL developers (e.g. Andreas, Sebastien) be interested in this type of contribution, and perhaps working with me on this development? I could see a variational approach to this for example. Moreover it will be important to have mesh resolution control here, perhaps in a way that leads to dense meshes in the specific subcortical targets, where the simulation is concentrated. Or would it be better to send this to CMTK for example?

Cheers, 

Michel

Michel Audette, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor,

Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,

Old Dominion University,

Norfolk, VA.