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Kenji Suzuki, PhD's study featured in article in Communications of ACM
Studies on machine learning in medical imaging lead by Kenji Suzuki, PhD in collaboration with Samuel Armato III, PhD and Heber MacMahon, MD were featured in the article "Better Medicine Through Machine Learning" in the News section of the premier magazine Communications of the ACM.
Cancer Research Foundation Award Given to Dr. Steffen Sammet
Congratulations to Steffen Sammet, MD, PhD, MS, DABR who's proposal for a Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Award has been accepted. The award is $75,000, to be awarded in two installments. The goal of the Young Investigator Awards is to enable promising young investigators to initiate successful scientific careers.
Kevin Little won second place in an IEEE student paper competition
Kevin Little, a fourth-year student in the Graduate Program in Medical Physics, won second place in the student paper competition at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference held Oct 23-29 in Valencia, Spain. Kevin's paper was entitled, "Sinogram Restoration in Computed Tomography with a Non-Quadratic, Edge-Preserving Penalty."
Samuel Armato III, PhD, was one of five speakers at a U of C symposium
Samuel Armato III, PhD, was one of five invited speakers at a symposium organized by the University of Chicago Department of Physics to honor the career of Professor Isaac Abella. Each speaker was a former student of Dr. Abella. Dr. Armato's presentation, "Perception and the Physics of Medical Imaging," conveyed the idea that medical imaging requires both fundamental physical principles and an ultimate interpretation by an expert human observer.
Congratulations to the following faculty on their achievements & awards:
Sam Armato - NSF/DePaul awarded funding in the amount of $103,523 ($33/170/yr) entitled “Medical Informatics Experiences in Undergraduate Research Award”. Project Period: 2/1/11-1/31/14. He also received funding from NCRR in the amount of $357,000 for “Acuo PACS System on Blade Server Infrastructure” for Project Period: 5/01/11-4/30/12.
Patrick LaRiviere - DOD awarded funding in the amount of $497,968.00 entitled: “High Resolution Large Field of View Ultrasound Breast Imager”. Project Period: 9/30/11-9/29/13.
