Biomedical Research
Faculty
- A. Scottedward Hodel - Associate Professor (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - '89). Modeling,
simulation and control; applications of numerical linear algebra in engineering.
- Soo-Young Lee - Professor (Univ. of Texas at Austin - '87). Task partitioning and mapping,
shared data management, parallel/distributed simulation, image processing applications.
- Stanley J. Reeves - Professor (Georgia Inst. of Tech. - '90). Signal processing, medical imaging,
image and signal reconstruction.
- Thaddeus A. Roppel - Associate Professor (Michigan State Univ. - 86). Neural networks and fuzzy
logic; sensors and sensor fusion.
- Thomas S. Denney, Jr. - Associate Professor (Johns Hopkins Univ. - '94). Image processing, image reconstruction,
medical imaging, modeling/estimation of multi-dimensional stochastic processes,
inverse problems, computer/robot vision, numerical methods, data visualization.
Completed and Curent Projects
- Cardiac motion reconstruction from magnetic resonance tagged image data.
- Development of electronic olfactory sensor (artificial nose) using Taguchi-type
gas sensors and neural network information processing.
- Fast backprojection schemes for CT image reconstruction
- Optimal sampling strategies in magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance
- spectroscopic imaging.
- Optimized reconstruction in computed tomography.
- Parallel image reconstruction for 3-D computerized tomography
- Robust control system design for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- Study of artificial membrane biosensors for detection of contraband, explosives,
and toxic substances. Funded in part by Federal Aviation Administration.
- Reconstruction and modeling of magnetic resonance images.
