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Faculty

219 PGH
Hugh and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor
231 PGH
Research Assistant Professor

Current Members

Yifeng Jiang
235 PGH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yifeng Jiang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, and Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, all in electronic engineering. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Image Processing and Analysis Group, Dept of Diagnostic Radiology, at Yale University. He is awarded a NLM postdoc fellowship in 2012. His research interests lies in shape analysis (registration, modeling, and comparison) and vascular image processing. He also has some R&D experience on a few medical imaging systems, including DSA and 3D Ultrasound.
Bassam Almujahid
235 PGH
Ph.D. Student

Bassam's research interests are in areas such as AI (neural network, fuzzy logic, and machine learning ), data processing and retrieval, as well as parallel computing.

Gerardo Mendizabal
235 PGH
Ph.D. Student

Gerardo's research interests include medical image analysis, numerical methods, pattern recognition and genetic algorithms. He is currently working in the UIVUS project which involves the analysis of intravascular ultrasound data for the development of methods and computational tools that will help physicians better characterize the instability and vulnerability of plaque in coronary arteries.

Yen Le Hai
235 PGH
Ph.D. Student

Yen's research interests include machine learning, image processing and bioinformatics.

Collaborators

  • S. Carlier, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Research Foundation)
  • N. Dib, MD (Arizona Heart Institute)
  • E. Falk, MD (Aarhus University)
  • K. Gul, MD (UCLA Biomed)
  • C.J. Hartley, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine)
  • R. Mehran, MD (Cardiovascular Research Foundation)
  • R.W. Metcalfe, PhD (University of Houston)
  • M. Naghavi, MD (Association for Eradication of Heart Attack)
  • C. Stefanadis, MD (University of Athens)
  • M. Vavuranakis, MD (University of Athens)