Student’s Poster Wins an Award at 2019 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference

Our two students, Shuyue (Frank) Guan and Nada Kamona, along with Professor Loew attended SPIE Medical Imaging Conference last week in San Diego, California (Feb 16th – Feb 21st). The conference is the host for leading researchers in image processing, physics, computer-aided diagnosis, perception, image-guided procedures, biomedical applications, ultrasound, informatics, radiology and digital pathology, along with a focus on fast emerging areas like deep learning, AI, and machine learning. Over 1,200 people attend this highly regarded conference on the latest medical imaging advances covered in over 1,000 presentations (for more information check here).

Frank presented his poster on using Generative Adversarial Networks and Transfer Learning for breast cancer detection by convolutional neural networks, winning the Honorable Mention Award for the Medical Imaging Conference. Nada presented an oral presentation for her summer internship project with the FDA, where she discussed her work on the reproducibility of CT-based texture feature quantification of simulated and 3D-printed trabecular bone, and the influence of noise and reconstruction kernel on the reproducibility of texture features.

Congratulations to our students on their accomplishments! 

Check Frank’s poster for more information, and the gallery for more pictures.

Dr. Murray Loew featured in GW Today article “Understanding Glass Flutes with Medical Imaging.” 

Dr. Murray Loew was featured in the February 7 GW Today article “Understanding Glass Flutes with Medical Imaging.” Dr. Loew highlighted the significance of this interdisciplinary project to classify the condition of historical glass as part of a NEH-funded project and in collaboration with the Library of Congress and  Catholic University. This three-year grant was received in 2017 to study historical 19th century glass and their deterioration and to improve preservation guidelines for historical glass.

Student Presents at the Capital Area Cognition, Attention, and Perception Conference

Nada Kamona, our master’s student in the 5-year combined BS/MS program, presented her thesis project at the Capital Area Cognition, Attention, and Perception (CAP^2) conference on January 25th, 2019. Nada’s project is about automated detection of simulated motion blur in digital mammography.

The Second Annual CAP^2 conference is hosted by The George Washington University, and sponsored by the ​GW Office of the Vice President of Research and the GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Nada presented her work in the five-minute students talk session, where other students from GWU and other local universities presented their projects as well.

For more information about the conference, click here.