September Meeting & Annual Student Networking Night
at The MIT Strata Center!
Date: Thursday September 30, 2010
Time:
6:00 - 6:30 pm Registration & Networking
6:30 - 7:15 pm Dinner
7:15 - 8:30 pm Program
Location:
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The Stata Center, Building 32
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
This meeting is combined with the annual student networking night
where all the surrounding college SWE chapters gather for a dinner and
discussion. Local students are especially encouraged to attend this
annual Networking Night for an opportunity to meet with professional
SWE members and other students!
Computer Vision for Surgery and Disease Analysis
Over the past few decades, computer vision techniques have played an
increasing role in the practice of medicine. Segmentation methods that
incorporate shape, appearance and atlas information provide detailed
3D reconstructions of patient-specific anatomy. Flexible registration
methods align segmented models with patients for surgical planning and
intra-operative guidance. Related registration methods align
populations of images to support isolation of disease specific
changes, as well as temporal evolution of those changes. We will
review recent advances in these and related areas, highlighting the
impact of computer vision methods in emerging medical practice.
About our Speaker:
Eric Grimson is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds the Bernard Gordon
Chair of Medical Engineering at MIT. He also holds a joint appointment
as a Lecturer on Radiology at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham
and Women's Hospital. Prof. Grimson has previously served as the
Education Officer for the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at MIT, and as Associate Department Head. Since 2005, he has
been serving as the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science. He received a B.Sc. (High Honors) in Mathematics
and Physics from the University of Regina in 1975 and a Ph.D. in
Mathematics from MIT in 1980. Prof. Grimson is a member of MIT's
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his group
has pioneered state of the art systems for activity and behavior
recognition, object and person recognition, image database indexing,
image guided surgery, site modeling and many other areas of computer
vision. Prof. Grimson is a Fellow of the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Fellow of the IEEE,
and was awarded the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching in the
School of Engineering at MIT.
RSVP by September 28 via Acteva at www.sweboston.org
For other questions, please send a message to swebos@sweboston.org.
