Biography and Expertise

The active research projects include:

  • Structural and functional evaluation of the normal and abnormal lung
  • Lung tissue functional assessment to guide radiation therapy
  • Analysis of breathing sounds to predict sputum accumulation during mechanical ventilation
  • Segmentation, measurement, and network analysis of the retinal vasculature
  • Pediatric airway segmentation, measurement, and shape modeling

Present Research Interests:

  • Pulmonary image analysis
  • Cardiovascular imaging
  • 3-D medical imaging

Special Fields of Knowledge:

  • Image processing
  • Medical imaging
  • Signal processing
  • Cardiopulmonary imaging

Keywords: medical imaging; image analysis; image processing


Expertise: Biomedical Imaging

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Associations

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Organizational Affiliations

Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Iowa

Radiology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Education

Electrical Engineering
1994, PhD, Penn State University
Electrical Engineering
1988, MS, Northeastern University
Electrical Engineering
1985, BS, Carnegie-Mellon University