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Model-Based Imaging
Tue, Oct 29, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Charles A. Bouman, Purdue University
Talk Title: Model-Based Imaging
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: Over the last two decades, model-based imaging techniques have emerged as a principled framework for understanding and solving many of the most important problems in imaging research. The approach of model-based imaging is to construct a model of both the image and the imaging system, and then to use this integrated model to either reconstruct an unknown image, or to estimate unknown parameters. So for example, model-based image reconstruction and parameter estimation can be used to robustly form images from sensors with uncertain calibration. But in addition, model-based imaging can serve as a framework for optimizing the static and dynamic design of imaging sensor systems themselves.
In this talk, we review some techniques and recent successes in model-based imaging. Two application domains that we consider are tomographic reconstruction from multislice helical-scan CT and electron microscopy, two very different sensors that share much in common when viewed from the perspective of model-based imaging. For both cases, we discuss a variety of technical innovations, which either improve image quality or reduce the computational burden. We then show results, which demonstrate the value of the methods both quantitatively and qualitatively, on a variety of real and simulated datasets. Finally, we conclude with a philosophical discussion of the future potential of model-based methods, and we present some emerging ideas, which have the potential to change the field.
Biography: Charles A. Bouman is the Showalter Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University where he also serves has a co-director of Purdueââ¬â¢s Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, M.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989.
Professor Bouman's research focuses on inverse problems, stochastic modeling, and their application in a wide variety of imaging problems including tomographic reconstruction and image processing and rendering. Prof. Bouman is a Fellow of the IEEE, AIMBE, IS&T, and SPIE and is currently the IEEE Signal Processing Societyââ¬â¢s Vice President of Technical Directions. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and the Vice President of Publications for the IS&T Society.
Host: Prof. Richard Leahy
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/medical-imaging-seminar-series/
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/medical-imaging-seminar-series/
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Munushian Keynote Lecture - Dr. Zhores Alferov
Tue, Oct 29, 2013 @ 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Zhores Alferov, President, St. Petersburg University, Nobel Laureate, Physics 2000
Talk Title: Breakthrough Technologies of the 20th Century and Their Importance Today
Abstract: In the 20th century, new technologies that determined to a large extent the development of the new civilization were created on the basis of fundamental research. They are nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, jet engines and space technologies, creation of computers (electronic computing machines), discovery of the transistor, discovery of the laser, the basics of information technologies of today (discovery of silicone chips and heterostructures), revolution in genetics and new technologies
in medicine. Milestones in the history of creation and development of these technologies and their importance today are overviewed. A special focus is made on importance and role of the fundamental research. Information and energy technologies are reviewed in particular detail.
Biography: Dr. Zhores Alferov earned a doctor of sciences in physics and mathematics in 1970 from Ioffe Physical Technical Institute. He is a co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics “for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed-electronics and
optoelectronics.” He is also a Russian politician, and has been a member of the Russian State Parliament, the Duma, since 1995.
Co-sponsored by: Ming Hsieh Institute
Host: EE - EP and Ming Hsieh Institute
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/events/keynote/munushian/
Webcast: http://geromedia.usc.edu/Gerontology/Play/a34741a9d5524190abc29698f4e7c8f91dLocation: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 124
WebCast Link: http://geromedia.usc.edu/Gerontology/Play/a34741a9d5524190abc29698f4e7c8f91d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/events/keynote/munushian/
