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Media Release Pictures 2006

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Index

• Virtual swimmer to speed up our athletes - 16 March 2006
• Brain researchers get a head start - 1 February 2006
• CSIRO statisticians confirm: It's been 75 years! - 26 September 2005
• China and Australia Forge the TIES That Bind - 22 August 2005
• Privacy software to unlock health data goldmine - 1 August 2005
• CSIRO software streamlines drug discovery - 20 June 2005
• Keeping tabs on tablets - 20 June 2005
• A statistically significant shortage - 8 March 2005
• 3D Scanner gives the Full Picture - 11 January 2005

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Screen showing how HCA-Vision software analyses neuron bodies and neurites

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Screen showing how HCA-Vision software automatically generates reports on the images it analyses

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Screen showing how HCA-Vision software provides cross referencing between the neurons detected in the image and the automatically generated report.

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Cells in culture. Courtesy of Dr Xiaokui Zhang, Helicon Therapeutics Inc.

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This image shows primary rat brain neurons displaying a high degree of neurite branching complexity, as measured by HCA-Vision. Images courtesy of Prof P Doherty, King’s College, London.

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Frances Elizabeth 'Betty' Allan, worked at CSIRO from September 1930 to 1940 as a statistician - the organisation's first.

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CSIRO's first statistician, Betty Allan, using a mechanical calculator in a laboratory.

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Bunnies ate my data. How to compensate for missing data in agricultural field trials was one of Betty Allan's statistical research areas.

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Today's CSIRO statisticians, some shown here at a salmon farm, are working on data problems in biotechnology, like how to find disease resistance genes in salmon.

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Speakers Terry Speed (WEHI and UC Berkeley; left) and John Field (BiometricsSA; right), with Murray Cameron of CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics (centre) at CSIRO's dinner to celebrate 75 years of statisticians in CSIRO.

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Dr Bronwyn Harch, an organiser of TIES 2005 and Research Manager for Environmental Informatics at CSIRO Mathematical Information Sciences.

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Australians are used to dry landscapes. Our climate research expertise could help China deal with its own water shortages.

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CSIRO statisticians discussing samples for water quality monitoring in South-East Qld. Reliable data is vital for natural resource managers.

Image showing how CSIRO's image analysis software processes the microscope image (left) and finds the nerve cell and classifies its branches (right).

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Spectra for the ingredients and filler in 'Excedrin' migraine tablets which are sold in the US. Spectra top to bottom are: filler, caffeine, aspirin, paracetomol (called 'acetaminophen' in the US).
 

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Spatial distribution of ingredients and filler in 'Excedrin' migraine tablets which are sold in the US. Top left: filler, top right: caffeine, bottom left: aspirin, bottom right: paracetomol (called 'acetaminophen' in the US).

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Managing museum collections could be enhanced by CSIRO's 3D scanning technology. For example, the technology shows this shell as dome-shaped, not flat.