Daniel Haehn PRO
Hi, I am a biomedical imaging and visualization researcher who investigates how computational methods can accelerate biological and medical research.
Assignment 3
Due 4/4!
High-Level!
Important facts!
Your job:
Make the paper understandable.
Ask Questions!
Audience's job:
Lead the discussion.
Be ready to summarize any of the discussed papers.
Bella Baidak
Akshata Tiwari
published CS410 project
went to Cornell
Jay Burkhardt
published CS410/C460 project
works at Draper
Tung Duong
worked hard in CS460/CS410
works at University of Miami
submitted CVPR paper
got into Princeton+MIT
and Top 300 in the US
Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath
worked hard during internship
got into Harvard
And many more landed jobs and received opportunities through my recommendations...
CT
X-Ray
Computed tomography
CT
CAT
Image Volumes
Axial
Sagittal
Coronal
Voxel size for CT: 0.625-1.25 mm^3
similar to MRI
0
255
Hounsfield Units
Different Tissues, Different Intensities
measure of the reduction intensity of a ray of light by the tissue through it passes
Hounsfield Units
Window/Level
optimized for soft tissue
Window/Level
optimized for lung
Window/Level
optimized for bones
All viewers support this!
Contrast agent can help highlight certain features
injection or oral
ROI appears brighter
Risk for cancer from CT: 1 out of 2000
higher risk of allergy against contrast agent
COVID-19 CT Scans
37 yrs
52 yrs
73 yrs
ground-glass opacity (GGO)
Dental Artifact
Contrast Artifact
Portable CT
The AMIGO Suite
Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Assignment 5
PyDicom
load CT volume, slice it, adjust window/level
Coming soon!
1. Explain the Story
2. Discuss the Paper
Students take the lead!
Roshan Peng-Lin Chen
Neha
Gopi Krishna Sai Harshith Chinta Sai Bharadwaj
CS666 Lecture 16
By Daniel Haehn
CS666 Lecture 16
Slides for CS666 Biomedical Signal and Image Processing at UMass Boston. See https://cs666.org!
