In the category of applied works of the 24th edition of the competition for the best diploma thesis "AGH Diamonds", the first prize was awarded to MSc Eng. Dominika Ciupek, whose work was created using the computational infrastructure of ACC Cyfronet AGH.
The winning master's thesis, entitled "Mapping the properties of white matter tracts in the aging brain using diffusion imaging using magnetic resonance imaging" was completed at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering of AGH under the supervision of Dr. Eng. Tomasz Pięciak (AGH University of Krakow and Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación at the University of Valladolid, Spain).
The computational infrastructure of the Cyfronet was used to calculate numerical changes in microstructural parameters of the brain based on diffusion imaging using magnetic resonance imaging. The resources of the Prometheus supercomputer were used for pre-processing of MRI data, generation of nerve fiber paths using diffusion tractography algorithms, and numerical optimization of biophysical models for the representation of compartmental brain microstructure. The calculations were performed using, among others, original scripts written in Python.
Detailed information about the competition and the profiles of the other winners are presented in the AGH press release.
