Image Processing & Medical Imaging Laboratory
This document provides some basic information about research at
the Image Processing and Medical Imaging Research Laboratory
at the University of Houston.
Research Personnel
Thomas J. Hebert, Associate Professor
Xudong Yang, Teaching Assistant, PhD student
Bernie Henneberger, masters student
Kameraon Ayati, masters student
Ameet Chitre, masters student
Research Areas
The research interests of the group include
image restoration, 3D reconstruction, Bayesian approaches to
image restoration and reconstruction, 3D tomography, image modelling,
multi-modality image registration and correlation,gated cardiac imaging,
segmentation and analysis of time-varying 3-D medical images,
statistical image processing, automated image analysis, segmentation
and interpretation of magnetic resonance images.
Current Positron Emission Tomography Project
Facilities
The laboratory provides an HP 9000/730 workstation, two
DEC Ultrix workstations, a state of the art video printer,
a scanner, a PC-based CCD camera image acquistion system,
Macintosh machines, and a laser printer. In addition the
Cullen College of Engineering
provides a multitude of processing platforms, such as DEC Alpha's, NEXT
workstations, and Windows NT machines.
Several medical imaging research projects involve close collaboration
with premiere institutes in the Texas Medical Center, such as St. Luke's
Episcopal Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Access is available
to several state of the art nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging
equipment in the Texas Medical Center.