Professor, Director of the Masters Admissions and Director of the Masters in AI Program

Margrit Betke is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, where she co-leads the Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative and the Image and Video Computing Research Group. She conducts research in medical image analysis, computer vision, human-computer interfaces, and application of machine learning. She has developed 2D and 3D methods for detection, segmentation, registration, and tracking of lung tumors, people, bats and birds, vehicles, gestures, and live cells, etc. in visible-light, infrared, and x-ray image data. She has published over 150 original research papers. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. While she was a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, she co-developed the first patented algorithms for detecting and measuring pulmonary nodule growth in computed tomography.  Prof. Betke has received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2001 for developing “Video-based Interfaces for People with Severe Disabilities.” She co-invented the “Camera Mouse,” an assistive technology used worldwide by children and adults with severe motion impairments.  She is an Associate Editor of the journals IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). She currently leads an NSF project on designing analytic methods for studying visual and textual public information, including news and social media.

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http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/betke