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
