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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
When confronted by the complexity exhibited in biomedical problems, researchers have traditionally been forced to focus purely on individual sub-systems; the most common boundary separating these has been spatiotemporal scale. The current interest in VPH is demanding greater concentration on the study and simulation of biological systems at multiple scales, and multiscale data collection and multiscale modelling have recently become synonymous with integrative research. The many VPH projects that will start to demand multiscale visualisation in the coming years suggests that this area should receive urgent attention.
MSV aims, by international cooperation between the European @neurIST and VPHOP integrated projects, the US National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing (NA-MIC), and the New Zealand-based IUPS Physiome initiative:
i) to define an interactive visualisation paradigm for biomedical multiscale data,
ii) to validate it on the large collections produced by the VPH projects, and
iii) to develop a concrete implementation as an open-source extension to the Visualisation Toolkit (VTK), ready to be incorporated by virtually any biomedical modelling software project.
In MSV, the consortium will identify a set of problems based on the VPH that are representative of the issues that face scientists in that community. The role of CCGV will be to design suitable approaches to the visualisation problems that emerge. There will be significant international collaboration, with Kitware (creator and distributor of VTK) acting as a channel into US research groups who are actively involved in this newly emerging area.
