Medical Imaging Research
Abstract
Medical imaging technology merges advanced techniques from electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, and computer science. The purpose of this talk is to give an introduction to diverse areas of medical imaging research, using examples from current projects taking place in the ECE Department at IIT. Four main research areas will be discussed: 1) mapping the human brain using signal processing; 2) a search engine for mammograms; 3) 4D image reconstruction of cardiac image sequences; and 4) multple-image radiography (MIR), the next generation of x-ray imaging. The talk will show how mathematical techniques from the research lab can be applied to practical problems in medicine.
Short Bio of the Speaker
Miles N. Wernick, Ph.D., received the BS in Physics from Northwestern University in 1983, and the PhD in Optics from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 1990. After graduation, he was with the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago. He joined IIT in 1994, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He currently serves as Director of Medical Imaging for the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering, where his responsibility is to foster and coordinate IIT's medical imaging activities.