Nada Kamona, our recent graduate student, and Dr. Loew attended the Medical Imaging Perception Society (MIPS) XVIII conference on July 14th-17th at Salt Lake City, Utah. Nada presented her thesis project in a 20-minutes oral talk on automatic detection approaches for simulated motion blur in mammograms. Scientists, physicians, radiologists, and students from around the world had attended the conference, and presented research in human and computer perception of medical image information. Nada was also awarded the MIPS XVIII Student Award Scholarship, which helped cover travel and registration expenses.
The Medical Image Perception Conference is a biennial conference dedicated to bringing together people interested in human and computer perception of medical image information and related subjects such as, detection and discrimination of abnormalities, cognitive and psychophysical processes, perception errors, and search patterns. This year it was hosted by the University of Utah.
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