Week 6 - Caleb Jones

 Immersion term is finally over! What an experience. Between the shadowing opportunities, research, and time able to be spent bonding with the cohort, my time here has been packed with excitement. I am quite tired of city life and ready to be back to Ithaca and with my birds. 

This past week, I met with my clinical mentor's laboratory and updated everyone on the current status of the MBP/Fe3+ quantification project. In order to remove bias from the processing pipeline, consistent image thresholding must be achieved. There are 17 built-in thresholding algorithms in imageJ, and I found the max entropy algorithm best suits our data. I constructed another macro to analyze images with all 17 algorithms at once, and taught Ria (the high school student assigned to this project with me) how to implement the macro on her device back home. Further work that needs to be accomplished for this project involves collecting more ROIs from the raw histology images and running a larger scale analysis to see how the current method quantifies protein/iron in NAWM, lesion center, and lesion rims.  

I am excited for the group picture and picnic at central park this afternoon and can't thank everyone involved enough for planning these social events. The entirety of immersion term has been such a wonderful opportunity to socialize with cohort members after not having any opportunity to meet in person for almost a year. I am excited to write up my term paper and create a poster for presentation back in Ithaca!

See you next time NYC

❤,

Caleb

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