Lab Members
Sandy Napel, PhD
Principal Investigator
Research interest: Volumetric Visualization, Quantitative Imaging, Imaging Genomics, Content-based Medical Image Retrieval
Contact: snapel@stanford.edu
Shaimaa Bakr
Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering
Research Interest: Medical Imaging, Image Processing
Contact: bakr@stanford.edu
Eduardo Somoza
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Radiology
Research Interests: Using medical imaging to address cancer health disparities in low income communities.
Contact: esomoza@stanford.edu
Collaborators
Chris Beaulieu, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging
Research Interest: Three dimensional computer graphics representation of, medical imaging data, including clinical applications of virtual, colonoscopy and arthroscopy; interactive MRI evaluation of joint, motion.
Olivier Gevaert, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research
Research Interest: Biomedical data fusion: the development of machine learning methods for biomedical decision support using multi-scale biomedical data. Previously we pioneered data fusion work using Bayesian and kernel methods studying breast and ovarian cancer.
Nishita Kothary, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Research Interest: Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Oncology
Ann Leung, MD
Title: Professor of Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Chief of Thoracic Imaging
Research Interest: High-resolution computed tomography of the thorax, particularly its application in the setting of acute lung disease in the immunocompromised host; quantitative assessment of abnormalities, using spiral CT; and enhancement characteristics of lung cancers on, CT and MRI
Sylvia Plevritis, PhD
Title: Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Research Interest: My research program focuses on computational modeling of cancer biology and cancer outcomes.
Daniel Rubin, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Research Interest: Content Based Image Retrieval in Radiology, Computer Aided Decision Support, Ontologies and Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction.
Joseph Shrager, PhD
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interest: The impact of disease states upon the diaphragm.
Administration
Elizabeth Colvin
Administrative Associate
Email: sovay@stanford.edu
Phone:(650) 724-9286
Sofia Gonzales
SCIT Program Manager
Email: sofias@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 724-9139
Ramzi Totah
IBIIS Program Manager
Email: rtotah@stanford.edu
Alumni
H. Christian Davidson, MS - Medical Informatics 1991-93
Thesis area: Picture Archiving for Radiology
Smadar Shiffman, PhD - Medical Informatics 1992-99
Thesis area: Segmentation of Blood Vessels for CT Angiography
Philippe G. Lacroute, PhD - Electrical Engineering 1993-95
Thesis area: Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transform (3rd reader)
Chye H. Yan, PhD - Electrical Engineering 1994-98
Thesis area: Serial Registration of CT Scans for Quantitative Applications
Shin Y. Yen, PhD - Electrical Engineering 1994-99
Thesis area: Resolution in Spiral CT and Volume Visualization of Medical Images
David Paik, PhD - Medical Informatics 1996-02
Thesis area: Virtual Colonoscopy — Visualization, Path Planning, CAD
Feng Zhuge, PhD - Electrical Engineering 1999-06
Thesis area: Quantification of structures in volumetric data
Burak Gokturk, PhD - Computer Science 1999-02
Thesis area: Shape Recognition with Application to Medical Imaging (2nd reader)
Burak Acar, Postdoc - Radiology 1999-02
Thesis project: CAD of Colonic Polyps, Lung Nodules
Kenneth Wang, PhD - Mechanical Engineering 1999-01
Thesis area: Level Set Methods for Computational Prototyping with Applications to Hemodynamic Modeling (2nd reader)
Grant M. Stevens, PhD – Biophysics 1999-00
Thesis area: Volumetric Tomographic Imaging (2nd reader)
Raghav Raman, Postdoc – Radiology 1999-03
Thesis project: Vascular Visualization and Quantitation
Djamila Holmlund, MS - Visiting Student (Sweden) 2001-02
Masters thesis: A Study on Radiological Visual Inspections and a User Study Focused on Ergonomic Input Devices.
Ping Li, MS - Computer Science 2001-03
Thesis project: Virtual Colonoscopy Supine and Prone Matching, CAD
Padma Sundaram, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2001-07
Thesis area: Virtual Colonoscopy CAD
Michel Bilello, Postdoc - Computer Science/Radiology 2002-03
Project: CAD for Liver Lesions
Joyoni Dey, Postdoc – Radiology 2003-05
Project: Interventional Room of the Future; registration, Human-computer interaction
Markus Kukuk, Postdoc – Radiology 2003-08
Project: Advanced interventional visualization/registration
Rong (Cindy) Shi, Postdoc – Radiology 2003-07
Thesis project: Virtual Colonoscopy
Shaohua Sun, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2003-07
Thesis area: CAD lung and other cancer
Anthony Sherbondy, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2002-08
Thesis area: Advanced Visualization, Segmentation, CAD
Tejas Rakshe, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2003-08
Thesis area: Vascular Visualization
Joong Ho Won, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2004-09
Thesis area: Vascular Visualization
Bindi-Pankhudi, MS - Computer Science 2004-06
A. J. Jayant Joshi, MS - Computer Science 2004-06
David Olsen, PhD - School of Medicine 2006-07
Thesis area: Lung nodule simulation
Ushah K. K. Reddi, MS - Computer Science 2006-08
Thesis area: Virtual colonoscopy
David Tran, MD - School of Medicine 2006-09
Thesis area: Vascular quantitation
Jiajing Xu, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2009-13
Thesis area: Quantitative Imaging
Jessica Faruque, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2007-14
Thesis area: Perception of Image Similarity, CBIR Systems
Sebastian Echegaray, PhD - Electrical Engineering 2013-17
Thesis area: Quantitative Imaging
Austin Ray, MS -Computer Science 2015-16
Thesis Area: Machine Learning
Stephen Chu, MS - Computer Science 2015-16
Thesis Area: Quantitative Imaging
Huafei Wang, MS - Computer Science 2015-16
Thesis Area: Machine Learning
Sarah A. Mattonen, PhD - Radiologic & Medical Physics 2017-19
Akshay Jaggi, BS - Computer Science 2016-19
Dev Gude - Research Software Developer; QIFP Project