Clinical Image Analysis

The recent stimulus award for Dr. Metin Gurcan was featured in The Columbus Dispatch as part of an article on how stimulus funding is affecting research at The Ohio State University. The link to the article is: http://bmi.osu.edu/resources/news/stimulus_funding.pdf

CIALAB student Jeff Prescott, and MD/PhD student, has been awarded the Jane A. Blank scholarship from the Central and Southern Ohio chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (CSO-HIMSS). The CSO-HIMSS Chapter annually awards the scholarship and a one-year student HIMSS membership to an undergraduate or graduate student studying in the healthcare information or healthcare management systems field. Scholarships are awarded for academic excellence and the potential for future leadership in the healthcare information and management systems industry. Review criteria are focused on academic achievement, service activities, technical skills, career goals, demonstration of leadership potential, and communication skills.

The osteoarthritis (OA) group at CIALAB has had their work accepted for presentation at RSNA's Reading Room 2009. The meeting will provide an opportunity for the group to present its software suite for analyzing medical images for exploring factors in OA severity. The suite consists of a semi-automated meniscus segmentation method developed by Mark Swanson, an MD student, and an automated quadriceps muscle segmentation method developed by Jeff Prescott, and MD/PhD student. Tutorials of the meniscus and quadriceps segmentation procedures can be viewed at http://bmi.osu.edu/~cialab/meniscussegment.php and http://bmi.osu.edu/~cialab/thighsegment.php . The proper viewing of these videos requires Internet Explorer 6+.