Biological and Medical Signal Processing

Associated faculty: Karl, Nawab

The creation of new ways to probe biological media is providing researchers with unprecedented data concerning a range of biological phenomenon, ranging from the molecular to the clinical. With these new sources of information come new challenges. The objective of this thrust is to develop new methods of signal and image processing allowing quantitation and robust qualification based on such data. Topics include image reconstruction, image restoration, sampling and interpolation, imaging in scattering media, image setmentation and registration, data fusion, deformable methods, to name a few. Probing modalities include optical and fluorescence microscopy, computed tomography, ultrasound, MRI, dynamic PET & SPECT. Applications include:  molecular imaging, brain imaging; dynamic imaging; interventional imaging.