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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
By Bahram Parvin, Max Viergever, Michael Liebling and Lawrence Staib
Biomedical Imaging is constantly evolving to meet new challenges in biology and medicine. Conversely, new computational methods open the possibility to extend the capabilities and breadth of instrumentation, to improve the accuracy of detection and diagnosis, …
Max Viergever is Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Imaging at Utrecht University. He also holds appointments as Professor in Physics and Computer Science at Utrecht University. He received his DSc degree from Delft University of Technology. He is founder and director of …
Lawrence Staib received his A.B in Physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1982 and his M.S., M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1986, 1987 and 1990, respectively. He is now Associate Professor of …
Bahram Parvin is Staff Scientist in the Life Sciences Division of the Berkeley Lab of Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California in 1991. …
Michael Liebling (SM’00-M’04) received the MS (physics, 2000) and PhD (with a thesis in the areas of image processing and digital holography, 2004) from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2004 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology at the …
Emily L. Dennis has a B.A. degree in Psychology from Whitman College (’08) and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UCLA with Dr. Paul Thompson. There she researches brain structural and functional connectivity – specifically, how they change over development, are influenced by …
Bram van Ginneken is Professor of Functional Image Analysis at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Since 2010, he is co-chair of the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group within the Department of Radiology, together with Nico Karssemeijer. He studied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology and …
Stephen R. Aylward, Ph.D. is the founder of and Senior Director of Operations at Kitware’s North Carolina office. Its members provide research, consultation, and software development for academic and commercial efforts in medical imaging, computer vision, data management, and scientific visualization. Dr. Aylward’s research, funded …
By Stephen Aylward, Bram van Ginneken, Michael Liebling, and Bahram Parvin
During ISBI 2013, seven well-attended workshops were held in which participants offered competing solutions to specific Grand Challenges in Medical Image Analysis. This article describes the goals of the endeavor and gives summaries of the …
By Emily L. Dennis, Neda Jahanshad, Arthur W. Toga, Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Ian B. Hickie, Margaret J. Wright, Paul M. Thompson
Rapid advances are being made in studies of the brain’s connections, which use neuroimaging techniques and mathematical algorithms to analyze anatomical …
