BIOF 350 Introduction
	Syllabus
	Calendar
	Website (this one)

The Research Project:
	45% of your grade this Semester	
	Will try a method of following axons in SBEM retinal neural images
	I have a few methods to try, or you can make up your own
	
Where do images come from?
	Microscopes
	Drones
	Regular cameras
	Many more places

Biological images vs. others
	They vary a lot
	Strong overlap with robot vision

Review of what an image is:
	Resolution
	Pixels
	Color space
	Size of the image, uncompressed, in mb, with simple storage formats
	Compression
	1D vs. 2D array indexing

Working with these:  Review example
	CS108 flood fill
	CS108 project 3

Image formats:
	There are a lot of these!
	.jpg, .bmp, .png, etc
	Some support compression
	Libraries can load these for you
	Generally you want to use a library if you can

Efficiency and parallel processing:
	A lot of algorithms can take good advantage of multiple processors
	A GPU is often a good choice, but has limited memory available

Lab 1:
	Open an image and turn the text red without changing anything else