Seminars & Workshop @ AIT
RCC User Training Series
In order to familiarize users with RCC facilities and services, a series of user training courses has been organized. For this week the course training is as follows:
25-26 Sept. - HTML and Web Publishing
The venue is the RCC Auditorium. All training will be held at 12:00 noon. Interested persons are welcome to attend. Prior registration is not required.
From Expert Systems to Context-Based Assistant Systems: The Example of SART for the Subways in
Paris and Rio de Janeiro
This lecture will be held on Monday, 02 Oct at 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, 5 Oct at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noontime.
The lecture will be conducted by Dr. Patrick Brezillon from University Paris, France and venue will be at room CS-209.
Interested persons are invited to attend.
Abstract:
The course will begin by a general presentation of the
different modes of reasoning in Artificial Intelligence and their
integration in expert systems and knowledge bases systems. An analysis of
their successes and failures will show on which basis rely the new
generation of context-based systems, called also intelligent assistant
systems. The potentialities of the latter systems will be first
illustrated in the domain of the Geographical Information Systems, and
discussed in more detailed on the SART application of the subway
http://www.lip6.fr
Engineering Design and Manufacturing in Medicine
Ir. Bart Haex, from the Division of Biomechanics and Engineering Design,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium,
will deliver a seminar entitled Engineering Design and Manufacturing in
Medicine on Tuesday, 3 Oct at 1:30-2:30 p.m., in room IE-106, Chalerm Prakiat Building.
Abstract:
During the last decade both external and internal medical imaging techniques
have undergone a revolution, resulting in reliable and digitized 3D images of the human
body. The concurrent evolution of CAD-software towards reverse engineering
applications facilitates the import of external information during the
creation process and enables image-based design and manufacturing in
medicine. Internal medical images (computerized tomography, magnetic
resonance imaging...) generally serve surgical purposes e.g. fitting an
implant to a skull, while external images (laser scanning, video
rasterstereography...) are mainly used for ergonomic applications e.g.
fitting a shoe to a foot.
Depending on the kind of application and on the targeted cost a choice is made between
personalized products, where images of an individual are a direct input to the design,
or standardized products, where an image-based division into population classes enables a
better fit with a limited number of product variations. Furthermore the addition of medical
images to conventional CAD also occurs during the evaluation process: medical images
are used for finite element simulations and during clinical testing to evaluate non-mechanical
parameters like bone in-growth and biocompatibility.
The seminar will first focus on the design process - the differences with
conventional computer aided design will be highlighted - and will further
illustrate these concepts by means of several surgical and ergonomic
applications.
For more details on this seminar, please contact: Ir. Philip Oris, Senior Research Associate,
Belgium Medical Technology Project/SAT, tel. 524-6097
Interested persons are welcome to attend.