Author: nkamona

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. 

For more information about MIPS, click here. 

Three of our masters students have successfully defended their masters’ theses this semester, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. We congratulate them all on their accomplishments and hard work!

Kristina Landino, a student in BME, presented her work on salience in mammograms where she compared various salience detection algorithms in mammograms. Her committee members were Dr. Emilia Entcheva and Dr. Vesna Zderic.  

Nada Kamona, a student in the 5-year BS/MS BME program, presented her project on automatic detection of simulated motion blur in mammograms, where she simulated blur mathematically to mimic real blur and developed methods to automatically quantify the blur in the images. Her committee members were Dr. Jason Zara and Dr. Emilia Entcheva.

Lastly, Apurva Singh in ECE, presented her work on tumor heterogeneity and gene mutation. This is a combined study for analysis of radiation therapy efficacy in head-and-neck carcinoma patients. The analysis was also extended to lung and cervical cancer patients. Her committee members were Dr. Milos Doroslovacki and Dr. Kie-Bum Eom.

Kristina Landino

Our students have presented a variety of projects at GW Research Days on April 9th. GW Research Days is an annual event held at the George Washington University, where graduate and undergraduate students from all schools present their research and projects.

From our graduate students, Kristina Landino presented on silence in videos, Nada Kamona presented on automatic detection of blur in mammograms, and Ange Lou presented on IR image segmentation with U-nets. Shuyue Guan presented his work on image histogram equalization with convolution neural networks, Apurva Singh presented on the effectiveness of radiation therapy for the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and Zixian Lin presented on classification of renal cell carcinoma using texture feature analysis.

From our undergraduate students, Samhita, Jill and Emillie presented their work on automatic segmentation methods for IR breast images, while Sydney Bailes presented on cluster analysis of thermal images to aid in the diagnosis of breast cancer.

Finally, our two high school students, Sam Lossef and Nicholas Steele, showcased their project on multispectri RTI, an innovative imaging tool for art conservation. 

We congratulate everyone for their participation and hard work!

Check our students’ projects here and the photo gallery here. For more information on GW Research Days, click here.