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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.

News

- 2010 -

July - Dr. Suzuki serves as an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Physics & Astronomy and Journal of Health & Medical Informatics. Dr. Suzuki gave an invited talk at AAPM.

May - Dr. Suzuki was featured in an article in Singularity Hub.

March - Jin Qi, Ph.D. joined as a Visiting Scholar from University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China. Dr. Naoko Shimada, M.D., Ph.D. joined as a Visiting Scholar from Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan. Dr. Suzuki is co-organizing two MICCAI international workshops on machine learning in medial imaging (MLMI) and CAD for CT colonography. Dr. Xu is on the Program Committee of the MLMI workshop. Dr. Suzuki was featured in Medical and Diagnostic Imaging Technology Alert from Frost & Sullivan. A medical student lab member, Ryan Kohlbrenner was accepted into radiology residency at University of California at San Francisco. Congrats! Ryan Kohlbrenner was selected as one of 9 finalists in Pritzker Senior Scientific Session. Congrats! Dr. Suzuki was awarded IEEE 2010 Outstanding Member Award from IEEE Chicago Section.

February - Dr. Suzuki and our collaborator Dr. MacMahon were featured in AuntMinnie.com. Our poster at SPIE was invited to Journal of Digital Imaging by the Editor-In-Chief.

January - Dr. Suzuki was featured in HealthImaging.com. Our technology, MTANN was features in Avantrasara.com. Our education exhibit award was reported in Innervision magazine.

- 2009 -

December - Our education exhibit was granted a Certificate of Merit Award at the RSNA. We presented 3 papers at the RSNA meeting. 10 journal papers and 4 international conference papers were published in this year.

November - Dr. Suzuki was named the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information Processing. Dr. Suzuki serves as an Editorial Board Member of the international journal, Algorithm. Our paper for rib suppression in chest radiographs was features in HealthImaging.com.

September - Our paper for flat lesions in CT colonography was features in AuntMinnie.com. A medical student lab member, Ryan Kohlbrenner was selected as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. Congrats! Dr. Doi retired officially. Thank you, Dr. Doi, for 40 years of service to the University of Chicago.

July - Dr. Suzuki serves as an Associate Editor of International Journal of Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Suzuki serves as a Program Committee Member of International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human (ICIS).

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