Olivier Salvado's
Achievements Recognized at the SPIE Medical Imaging
Conference.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering is excited
to congratulate Olivier Salvado for receiving the
prestigious cum laude poster (1st/76) award in
Image Processing at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference,
Feb 11-16, 2006, in San Diego CA for the paper "A
new anisotropic diffusion method, application to
partial volume effect reduction." Olivier's
award-winning research focuses on reduction of
the partial volume effect, a common limitation
of medical imaging. Using the new method, the blurring
and pixelation usually seen in medical images can
be greatly reduced by interpolating images within
the framework of anisotropic diffusion filtering,
and could be applied to any digital images to increase
resolution and sharpness.
The method has been designed to improve computerized
assisted diagnostic of atherosclerosis using Magnetic
Resonance Imaging and improved visualization, especially
with regards to multi-planar reformatting of 3D
image data.
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Olivier has had a succession of awards. He received
the same SPIE award in 2004 for his paper on a
new intensity inhomogeneity correction method.
Olivier and the laboratory are especially excited
about yet another innovation in image processing
that solves a problem present in image registration
for the past decade. This will be presented at
the WBIR conference in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Olivier's research on atherosclerosis imaging will
be presented March 27th as part of the Frontiers
in Biomedical Imaging Spring 2006 Seminar Series which
highlights innovative biomedical imaging research
and clinical applications.
The SPIE Medical Imaging conference in San Diego
is a well-known international conference with more
than 1200 attendees. Case researchers presented
numerous achievements at the meeting: Dr.
Baowei Fei presented results on PET-CT registration
and five graduate students from Dr. Wilson's laboratory
gave oral presentations: Yuhao Zhiang, Donglai
Huo, Debashish Roy, David Johnson and Olivier Salvado.
The Biomedical Imaging Laboratory, headed by Professor David
L. Wilson, conducts biomedical research in
imaging science and offers training to students.
The laboratory has projects funded by research
grants from NIH and the state of Ohio.
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