Imaging & Analysis

At CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, we apply mathematics and statistics to answer important questions from medical research to environmental monitoring and industrial processing.

Cells will get a dose of reality TV when image analysts at CSIRO and cell biologists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research work together to observe their secret lives.

The Australian E-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) – a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government – has joined an international organisation devoted to improving patient and care provider access to reliable medical information.

Information obtained during clinical treatment can be valuable for clinical and medical research, but accessing and querying it is complicated by the different ways it is collected and stored. CSIRO is creating software tools to solve these problems.

CSIRO is helping pharmaceutical companies with one of their most expensive, time-consuming tasks - identifying which chemical compounds to develop into new drugs.

CSIRO’s Machine Vision team is expanding the capabilities of visioning hardware-software, building machines able to automatically process images in real-world conditions.

Our expertise combining intelligent sensors and computing leads to machines and products that can interact with their environment and alter the way they function.

The concept of Sentinel Asia is to provide online information from Earth observation satellites in ‘near real-time’ through a network of webGIS services such as the Australian Sentinel Hotspots system. (0.31 secs)

Ms Leane Bischof develops solutions to extract quantitative information from digital images, with the aim of increasing efficiency in the biological sciences.

Dr Asoka Edirisinghe is a remote sensing specialist modelling spatio-temporal dynamics of agro-ecosystems for sustainable management.

In the four years to June 2007, the CSIRO ICT Centre engaged in external business activities worth $41.1m which was undertaken with more than 340 entities. This business is expected to grow to over $50m by June 2008.

This newsletter is an update on the events and progress of the Tasmanian ICT Centre after its first nine months. (2 page)

The Tasmanian ICT Centre (TasICTC) is creating a world-class ICT sustainable research capability to support the growth and development of industries in Tasmania and delivering national impact.

There are many ways that organisations in Tasmania and across Australia can work with the Tasmanian ICT Centre. Find out more in this document.