2012
April
A former lab member, Lifeng He, PhD was promoted to Full
Professor. Congrats!
February
A former lab member, Lifeng He, PhD, Aichi Prefectural
University, Aichi, Japan became IEEE Senior Member. Congrats!
Dr Suzuki
serves as an Executive Editor of Journal of Health & Medical
Informatics.
January
Jianwu Xu, PhD was invited to serve
as Associate Editor of Medical Physics. Guo Cao, PhD joined as Visiting
Scholar from Nanjin University of Science and Technology, China. Dr
Suzuki’s research was featured in an article "Better
Medicine Through Machine Learning" in Communications of the ACM,
vol. 55, no.1, pp. 17-19, 2012. A book,
Machine Learning in Computer-Aided
Diagnosis: Medical Imaging Intelligence and Analysis
that Dr Suzuki Edited was
published by IGI Global
(Hershey, PA), 524 pp., 2012 (ISBN 9781466600591).
Dr Suzuki
serves as an Editorial Board Member of Quantitative Imaging in Medicine
and Surgery.
2011
December
Dr Suzuki
serves as an Editorial Board Member of Radiology: Open Access, and an
Editor of Algorithms Letters.
October
Our AJR paper regarding automated CT liver volumetry was
featured in an article, "Software
automates CT liver volume measurements," on AuntMinnie.com.
September
Dr Suzuki received the Kurt Rossmann Award for Excellence
in Teaching from the Graduate Program in Medical Physics. MLMI
International Workshop in conjunction with MICCAI successfully ended.
August
Hieu Huynh, Ph.D. joined as Visiting Assistant Professor
from Ho-Chi-Minh City University of Industry, Vietnam.
June
Xu Qiao, Ph.D. joined as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
from Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Sihai Yang, M.S. joined as am
International Visiting Student from Huaqiao University, China.
Briannon Connolly and Kevin Zhang joined through the NSF REU Program.
Welcome aboard! Dr Qiao is on the Program Committee of the MLMI
workshop.
April
An NSF REU student, Francis Ferraro, was accepted into
Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University
and awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG)
Fellowship by Department of Defense and National Science Foundation
(NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Triple
congrats! Drs. Xu and Chen are on the Program Committee of the MLMI
workshop. Dr. Suzuki serves as an Editorial Board Member of
International Journal of Information Technology and Network Application.
March
An NSF REU student, Francis Ferraro, and Dr. Xu were
awarded NSF-sponsored travel grants for their presentations at IEEE ISBI.
Congrats! Dr. Suzuki serves as a Deputy Editor of Academic
Radiology. Dr. Suzuki's comments and his research were introduced
in an article "A
Search Engine for the Human Body" in Technology Review published by
MIT.
February
Dr. Suzuki and his research presented at RSNA were
featured in an article "CAD
helps expert radiologists detect difficult polyps on VC" on AuntMinnie.com.
Dr. Suzuki serves as an Editorial Board Member of
Chest
Disease Reports.
Dr. Suzuki serves as the Editor-in-Chief on Medical Image Analysis
topic, International Journal of
Advancements in Computing Technology.
2010
November
Drs. Xu, Chen and Suzuki's studies to be presented at
RSNA were covered in RSNA previews on AuntMinnie.com:
New CAD approach reduces false-positives for HCC,
Chest x-ray CAD scheme suppresses ribs to improve results,
New VC CAD technique powers up sensitivity for flat lesions, and
VC CAD helps radiologists detect difficult polyps. Dr. Suzuki
serves as the Editor-in-Chief on Medical Image Analysis topic,
Journal of Convergence Information
Technology.
October
RSNA presentation list is up.
Dr. Suzuki serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of Journal of
Convergence Information Technology. Dr. Suzuki gave an invited talk at
the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, University of Iowa.
September
Dr. Suzuki served as a Reviewing
Panelist of the IEEE Senior Member Review Panel. Dr. Suzuki gave
an invited talk at the MICCAI workshop for CT colonography.
July
Dr. Suzuki serves as an Editorial
Board Member of Journal of Physics & Astronomy and Journal of Health &
Medical Informatics. Dr. Suzuki serves as a Guest Editor for a
special issue of International Journal of Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Suzuki gave an invited talk in Symposium
on Machine Learning in Radiation Therapy in AAPM.
June
Lindsay Kulkin and Colin O'Byrne joined through the NSF
REU Program. Welcome aboard!
May
Dr. Suzuki was featured in an article "The
AI Doctor Is Ready To See You" 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 an article "Pixel-voxel
based machine learning algorithm -- Developments in medical image
processing and analysis" in
Medical and Diagnostic Imaging Technology Alert from
Frost & Sullivan. A medical
student lab member, Ryan Kohlbrenner was accepted into the radiology
residency program in Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging 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 an article "Virtual
dual-energy DR improves lung lesion detection" on
AuntMinnie.com.
Our poster at SPIE was invited to Journal of Digital Imaging by the
Editor-In-Chief.
January
Dr. Suzuki was
featured in an article "Feature:
CAD makes headway into CTC with reduced false positives" on
HealthImaging.com.
Our technology, MTANN was features in an article "Neural
Network Reduces False Positives in CAD" on Avantrasara.com. A report on our RSNA Certificate of Merit Award for our exhibit entitled
“Can CAD help improve the performance of radiologists in detection of
“difficult” polyps in CT colonography?” by Suzuki K., et al. was
included in Innervision 25: 56-57, 2010.
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 an article "Flat-polyp
measurements show less variability in 3D VC" 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).
June
Jianwu Xu, Ph.D., from University of Florida joined as a
Postdoctoral Scholar. Summer Students, Emily Kawaler majoring in
Computer Science and
Francis Ferraro majoring
in Computer Science from a National Science
Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program,
and Jose Roig, B.S., majoring in Biotechnology from
Johns
Hopkins University joined. A lab member, William Chyr, B.A.,
was featured in a story on the University of Chicago
website “Fourth-year
student takes balloon art to a higher level.” Dr. Suzuki serves as
a Guest Editor of a special issue of Open Artificial Intelligence
Journal on "Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Image Analysis." Dr.
Suzuki serves as a Program Committee Member of Workshop on Computational
Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CIMI) in International Conference on
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB).
May
A lab member, Mark L. Epstein, M.S., was accepted into Pritzker School of Medicine at University of Chicago. Congrats! Dr.
Suzuki serves as an Editor of International Journal of Advancements in
Computing Technology. Dr. Suzuki serves as an International Committee
Member of Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology (AICIT).
Dr. Suzuki serves as a Research and Program Committee Member of 2009
International Conference on Computer Sciences and Convergence
Information Technology (ICCIT). Our collaborator, Dr. Dachman talked
about the importance of training in CT colonography in an article
“Success
in virtual colonography depends on right training” in
DiagnosticImaging.com.
April
Dr. Suzuki serves as an Editor of International Journal
of Digital Content Technology and Its Applications.
March
A lab member, Edmund Ng, M.S., from
Toronto,
Canada
was accepted into the Radiology Residency program
in Department of Medical
Imaging, University of Toronto, Canada.
Congrats!
Our collaborating medical student, Piotr Obara, M.D., was accepted into
our Radiology Residency program
in Department of Radiology
at University of Chicago.
Congrats!
February
Sheng Chen, Ph.D. joined as a Visiting Associate
Professor from Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
A lab
member, Zachary Grelewicz, was accepted into our Graduate Program in
Medical Physics at University of Chicago. Congrats! Dr. Suzuki serves
as a serves as a
Program Committee Member of SPIE International Symposium on Medical
Imaging, Computer-Aided Diagnosis conference (SPIE MI).
Dr. Suzuki
serves as a serves as a
Program
Committee Member of Workshop on Soft Computing in Image Processing and
Computer Vision (SCIPCV) in International Conference on Image
Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV).
January
William Chyr
majoring in
Physics and Economics joined from the
College of University of Chicago.
2008
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. Five journal papers and 9 international conference papers
were published in this year.
November
Our RSNA abstract for CAD for flat lesion detection got
attention from DiagnosticImaging Magazine. 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
Research & Education Foundation. Dr. Suzuki serves as a Guest
Editor of a special issue of the international journal Algorithm on
"Machine learning for medical imaging."
September
Our collaborator, Dr. Dachman was on Chicago Tribune and
Chicago Sun-Times news. Our paper for rib suppression in chest
radiographs in IEEE Trans Med Imag (2006) was ranked among the top 100
most downloaded IEEE Xplore articles in January in 2008, and it was
introduced among 26 articles in
September issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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.
Our collaborating medical student, Taral Doshi, M.D., was
accepted into our Radiology Residency program
in
Department of Radiology at University of Chicago.
Congrats!
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.
July
Our Radiology journal paper got press
coverage from AuntMinnie.com.
June
Summer Students, Ivan Sheu majoring in
Biology/Pre-Med, Yee-Fay Lim majoring in Mathematics and Economics,
Christine E. Boylan majoring in Linguistics and Biological Science,
Kevin A. Brown majoring in Applied Mathematics joined from the College
here. Rahul Eapen joined from Illinois Institute of Technology. Antonella Lostumbo joined as a Visiting Student from University of
Illinois College of Medicine.
April
A Research Grant was awarded from American
Cancer Society Illinois Division. Ryan Kohlbrenner, B.S. joined from the
Pritzker School of Medicine here.
January
Joel Verceles, B.S. joined from Chicago
Medical School.
2006
December
We presented 6 papers at the RSNA meeting. Our education exhibit was granted a Certificate of Merit Award at the
RSNA. We were interviewed for our education exhibit by Innervision
Magazine. Four journal papers and 3 international conference papers
were published in this year.
November
Liang Ge majoring in Biology/Pre-Med joined
from the College here.
September
Lifeng He, Ph.D. joined as a Visiting
Associate Professor from Graduate School of Information Science and
Technology, Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi, Japan. Shweta Khankari,
M.D. joined.
The Kenji Suzuki Laboratory
was established
in Department of Radiology at The University of Chicago.
February
A Honorable Mention Poster Award was granted
for research by a graduate student Y. Yuan at SPIE International
Symposium on Medical Imaging.
July
A Research Seed Grant was awarded from RSNA
Research and Education Foundation.
April
A Cancer Center Support Grant was awarded
from the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center.
2005
December
We presented 8 papers at the RSNA meeting.
Our rib suppression technique based on a massive-training artificial
neural network (MTANN) presented at the RSNA meeting got press coverage
from Schering. The 2005 Young Investigator Award granted to Dr.
Suzuki was introduced in Cancer Research Foundation Winter Newsletter.
Six journal papers and 3 international conference papers
were published in this year.
January
Young Investigator Award was granted to Dr.
Suzuki from Cancer Research Foundation. The RSNA Research Trainee
Prize granted to Dr. Suzuki at the RSNA meeting was introduced in
Innervision magazine.
2004
December
Dr. Suzuki was elected as a Senior Member of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). We
presented 8 papers at the RSNA meeting. A RSNA Research Trainee
Prize was awarded to Dr. Suzuki at the RSNA meeting. Five journal papers and
3 international conference papers
were published in this year.
January
Top 16 of most downloaded articles in
Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal in 2003 was awarded from
Elsevier Science. Our Certificate of Merit Award granted at the
RSNA meeting was introduced in Innervision magazine.
2003
December
We presented 6 papers at the RSNA meeting.
A Certificate of Merit Award was granted for our Education Exhibit at
the RSNA meeting. Six journal papers and one international conference paper
were published in this year.
2002
December
A Paul C. Hodges Award was granted to Dr.
Suzuki from Department of Radiology, University of Chicago. We
presented 3 papers at the RSNA meeting. Two journal papers were published in this year.
June
Our massive-training artificial neural
network (MTANN) research got press coverage in Virtual Press Room at the
AAPM meeting.
2001
December
Three journal papers and 6 international
conference papers were published in this year.
September
Dr. Suzuki joined the University of Chicago.
