Campus big data project may point the way to Alzheimer’s early detection

The team uses the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), supported by UW-Madison and the Morgridge Institue, to segment MRI brain images that in some cases can take 12-24 hours for a single brain. “For many hundreds of brain scans, we need a high throughput solution and the CHTC has been and will be an important part of our work flow,” Johnson says.