Pervasive Technology Institute Annual Report: Research Innovations and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Services in Support of IU Strategic Goals During FY 2016

The Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) seeks cross-cultural assessments of FASD, in order to improve clinical screening tools that provide early identification of children exposed to alcohol prenatally. The goal is to create an international collaboration of multidisciplinary researchers using cutting-edge techniques and data to further the field of study. Principal Investigators Tatiana Foroud and Peter Hammond are leading a CIFASD project focused on the identification of the facial features of FASD through 3D imaging. With the aid of 3D surface scanning technologies, they hope to better understand how the face changes and how those changes correlate with other conditions related to prenatal alcohol exposure. The Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) provides research support for this 3D facial imaging, alleviating technical challenges related to data acquisition. This support includes the deployment and technical support of six portable 3D facial scanning systems to the US and international locations like South