Education
Undergraduate: BS, Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, 1991
Graduate: MS, Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, 1993
Doctorate: PhD, Engineering, by published work, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 2001
Professional Experience
- 1993 - 1997 - Researcher, Research and Development Center, Hitachi Medical Corporation, Kashiwa, Japan
- 1997 - 2001 - Research Associate and Lecturer, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi, Japan
- 2001 - 2003 - Research Associate, Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- 2003 - 2004 - Research Associate (Instructor), Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- 2004 - 2006 - Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Illinois
- 2006 - Present - Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- 2007 - Present - Assistant Professor, Committee on Medical Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- 2007 - Present - Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois
Honors and Awards
- 1990 - Magna Cum Laude Award of Bachelor of Science Degree from Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan
- 1991 - Summa Cum Laude Award of Master of Science Degree from Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan
- 1993 - Freshman Award at Development Competition from Hitachi Medical Corporation, Kashiwa, Japan
- 1993 - Prize at Development Competition from Hitachi Medical Corporation, Kashiwa, Japan
- 2002 - Best Paper Award for Young Researchers from Information Processing Society of Japan
- 2002 - Paul C. Hodges Award from The University of Chicago
- 2003 - Certificate of Merit Award at Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
- 2004 - Top 16 of most downloaded articles in Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal in 2003 from Elsevier Science
- 2004 - RSNA Research Trainee Prize at Annual Meeting of RSNA
- 2004 - Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- 2005 - Young Investigator Award from Cancer Research Foundation
- 2006 - Honorable Mention Poster Award at SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging
- 2006 - Certificate of Merit Award at Annual Meeting of RSNA
- 2009 - Certificate of Merit Award at Annual Meeting of RSNA
- 2010 - IEEE Outstanding Member Award from IEEE Chicago Section
Professional Activities
Editor-in-Chief – International Journal of Intelligent Information Processing
Deputy Editor – Academic Radiology
Associate Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Convergence Information Technology, International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, International Journal of Digital Content Technology and Its Applications
Editor-in-Chief on Medical Image Analysis topic, Journal of Convergence Information Technology, International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology,
Associate Editor – Medical Physics (Invited), International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, Algorithms, Open Biomedical Engineering Journal, Open Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal of Digital Content Technology and Its Applications, International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, Journal of Physics & Astronomy, Journal of Health & Medical Informatics, Chest Disease Reports, International Journal of Information Technology and Network Application
Guest Editor – A special issue of Algorithms on "Machine Learning for Medical Imaging," a special issue of Open Artificial Intelligence Journal on "Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Image Analysis," and a special issue of International Journal of Biomedical Imaging on "Machine Learning in Medical Imaging."
Reviewer for Journal – IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Academic Radiology, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Medical Engineering & Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Journal of Digital Imaging, International Journal of Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Image and Vision Computing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Neural Processing Letters, Neurocomputing, IEE Proceedings for Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Open Artificial Intelligence Journal, Clinical Medicine: Case Reports, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Cancer Management and Research, International Journal of Digital Content Technology and Its Applications, Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Techniques & Applications (CRC Press), Imaging Science Journal, International Journal of Neural Systems, Machine Vision and Applications, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, International Journal of Computer Vision, International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Optical Engineering
Grant Reviewing Committee – National Science Foundation (NSF); American Cancer Society (ACS), Illinois Division; US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC); Science Center programs, the U.S. Department of State; Research Grant Program, Technology Foundation STW, the Netherlands; James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program, the Florida Department of Health; and Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program, the Florida Department of Health
Organizer/Chair of International Conference – International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI2011), International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI2010), in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2010), MICCAI Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Virtual Colonoscopy and Abdominal Imaging, in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2010)
Grant Reviewing Committee –Research Grant Program, Technology Foundation STW, the Netherlands; American Cancer Society (ACS), Illinois Division; US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC); James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program, the Florida Department of Health; and Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program, the Florida Department of Health
Organizer/Chair of International Conference – International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI2010), in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2010), MICCAI Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Virtual Colonoscopy and Abdominal Imaging, in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2010)
Program Committee in International Conference – The 5th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST), 3rd International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications (ISCIIA), 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), The 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Workshop on Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision (SCIPCV), International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV), SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging, Computer-Aided Diagnosis conference (SPIE MI), Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology (AICIT), International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonic Technology (OEPT), 2009 International Conference on Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT), Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CIMI), International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human (ICIS), IGConference.net Global & Genuine Conferences, Human and Sciences Publication, 6th International Conference on Networked Computing (INC), 4th International Conference on New Trends in Information Science and Service Science (NISS), 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), 2010 International Conference on Data Communication Networking (DCNET 2010), Workshop on Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision (SCIPCV), in International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV), International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2010), 6th International Conference on Networked Computing and Advanced Information Management (NCM 2010), 3rd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human (ICIS 2010), 6th International Conference on Digital Content, Multimedia Technology and its Applications (IDC 2010), IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA10), in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR10), International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonic Technology (OEPT), 6th International Conference on Advanced Information Management and Service (IMS 2010), 2010 International Conference on Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT), 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMB 2010), International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Visual Information Processing (CIMVIP 2010), Second International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications (COGNITIVE 2010), 2010 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT2010), International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI2010), MICCAI Workshop on Computational Challenges and Clinical Opportunities in Virtual Colonoscopy and Abdominal Imaging, 2nd International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications, IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CIMI 2011), International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011), 2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2011 International Conference on Data Communication Networking (DCNET 2011), IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2011)
Other Activities
IEEE Senior Member Application Review Panelist, IEEE; IEEE Senior Member Upgrade Chair, IEEE Chicago Section
