CIALAB encouraging talented young minds with summer internships

CIALAB is pleased to introduce the three interns namely Tong Gan, Rosana Rodriguez Milanes and Michael Priddy working through summer’09.

• Rosana Rodriguez Milanes - I am a third year undergraduate student in Electronic Engineering from Universidad del Norte, Colombia. My experience as a volunteer foreign student in the Clinical Image Analysis Laboratory has been an edifying, gratifying and enriching. Being able to participate, to learn and to collaborate in the Clinical Image Analysis Laboratory during the past two weeks has allowed me to improve my analytical and interpretative skills in processing histopathological and MRI images. I have been able to learn about segmentation, region growing, splitting and merging algorithms development. I have also had the privilege of knowing and interacting with excellent engineers who have helped me improve my skills as a foreign student. I am grateful for the opportunity that the Ohio State University has given me to collaborate and to learn with an excellent team of professionals working in the digital imaging processing field.

• Michael Priddy - I am a medical student who just finished my first year. Graduating from Brigham Young University, most of my research experience has been in the field of History (which I received my undergraduate degree in). I will be spending the summer analyzing the relationships between cartilage, strength, muscle content and KL scores (osteoarthritis of the knee) with an emphasis on using the muscle content numbers (intramuscular fat content, lean muscle cross-sectional area, cross-sectional area of muscle with fat included, and the ratio of fat vs. muscle inside a muscle).

• Tong Gan - I am a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in Microbiology and am interested in pursuing medical school after graduation. My research experience started with a lab assistant position in the Department of Plant and Cellular Molecular Biology of Ohio State where I learned the basics of bench research and helped various post-docs in a project discovering the basis of Circadian Rhythms in arabidopsis plants. My next research was under Dr. Thomas Best for summer credit in immunostaining rabbit muscle tissues to see the effect of massage on injured muscles. Currently, I am working on the Osteoarthritis project that entails manually segmenting the MRI medial meniscus for 160 patients and then writing a MATLAB program that measures its volume, thickness, and surface area.