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The research interests of the Kenji Suzuki Laboratory at the University of Chicago lie in interdisciplinary research in medicine and computer science, with its primary focus on research on computer-aided diagnosis of lesions in the abdomen, thorax, and heart and the development of techniques of machine learning, image processing, and pattern recognition. The long-term goal of the laboratory’s research is to develop a computer system that diagnoses diseases in medical images as an expert radiologist does to assist non-expert doctors in making diagnoses. To approach this goal, we believe that the development of sophisticated techniques, their theoretical backups, and an understanding of radiologists’ decision-making process and of the human visual system are essential. We are making efforts to “weave” the clinical science and the technological science into a new paradigm to contribute to both medicine and computer science.

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December - Our collaborator, Dr. Baron was named a member of the RSNA Board of Directors. Dr. Suzuki serves as a member of the Research Advisory Committee of American Cancer Society, Illinois Division. Dr. Suzuki serves as IEEE Senior Member Upgrade Chair, IEEE Chicago Section.

November - Our RSNA abstract for CAD for flat lesion detection got attention from DiagnosticImaging. Our laboratory has 7 papers at RSNA. Dr. Suzuki was featured in November issue of RSNA News.

October - Dr. Suzuki was featured in Foundation Focus by RSNA R & E Foundation. Dr. Suzuki serves as a Guest Editor of a special issue of the international journal Algorithm.

September - Our collaborator, Dr. Dachman was on Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times news.

June - Summer Students, Edmund Ng, M.S. from Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Reed Tompkins from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, and Shailesh C. Garg, M.D. joined.
April - Masatoshi Hori, M.D., Ph.D. joined as a Visiting Associate Professor from Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
March - Ademola M. Obajuluwa, B.S., joined from the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago.
February - Jonathan Kuo, B.S. joined as a Visiting Student form Chicago Medical School. A Research Grant was awarded to our collaborator, Dr. Armato from National Science Foundation (NSF).
January - Jun Zhang, Ph.D. joined as a Computer Scientist from Department of Statistics, University of Chicago.

- 2007 -
December - Our laboratory presented 5 papers at RSNA. Our virtual dual-energy chest radiography research got press coverage from Health Imaging News. Seven journal papers and 8 international conference papers were published in this year.
October - Zachary Grelewicz majoring in Physics and Raiyah Sheriffdeen majoring in Biology/Pre-Med joined from the College of University of Chicago.
September - An R01 Research Grant was awarded from National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI). Zhenghao Shi, Ph.D. joined as a Visiting Associate Professor from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
August - Mark L. Epstein, M.S. joined as a Computer Scientist from Microsoft, Inc. where he was engaged in the development of Microsoft Office 2007. A textbook “Biomedical Information Technology” including a chapter “Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD)” was published by Academic Press.

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