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The logo of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute [1] is a permanent research institute at the University of Utah. It is a leader in engineering and research in the areas of scientific computing, visualization, and imaging. It focuses on solving computational and imaging problems in medicine, geophysics, chemical engineering, molecular dynamics, aerospace, fluid mechanics, combustion, and atmospheric dispersion.

Associated Research Centers

The SCI Institute currently houses the NIH Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) [2].

It is also associated with several additional national research centers, such as

  • DoE Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions (C-SAFE)
  • DoE Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET)
  • DoE Scientific Data Management Center
  • DoE Center for Technology for Advanced Scientific Component Software (TASCS)
  • NIH National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC)
  • NIH Center for Computational Biology.

Open Source Software released by SCI

A human torso rendered with ImageVis3D

Besides research in the areas mentioned above a particular focus of the SCI Institute has been to develop innovative and robust software packages, such as:

  • SCIRun scientific problem solving environment (PSE) for modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific problems (includes BioPSE)
  • BioTensor is a program to processes and visualizes diffusion tensor images
  • Seg3D an open source interactive segmentation tool
  • map3d a scientific visualization application written to display and edit complex, three-dimensional geometric models and scalar, time-based data associated with those models
  • ImageVis3D a lightweight, feature-rich volume rendering application
  • VisTrails a new scientific workflow management system


  1. ^ "SCI webpage".
  2. ^ "CIBC Homepage".