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CARDIA News
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3-30-2006
| Computational Biomedicine Lab Researchers Win Sigma Xi Awards |
The Computational Biomedicine Lab is proud to announce that in the 2006 UH Sigma Xi competition, Sean O'Malley and George Toderici have each won a poster award in the category of Graduate Computer/Computational Sciences and Math. Their poster titles were "Intravascular Ultrasound-Based Imaging of Vasa Vasorum for the Detection of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque" and "Expression-Invariant Multispectral Face Recognition: You Can Smile Now!", respectively.
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1-18-2006
| Press Release: "Detecting the Ticking Time Bomb" |
Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris and graduate student Sean O'Malley (Computational Biomedicine Laboratory) are collaborating with leading cardiologists, scientists and engineers from the Association for Eradication of Heart Attack, the University of Athens Medical School, the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Aarhus University, and the University of Houston to enable physicians, for the first time, to detect microvessels growing in atherosclerotic plaques. These microvessels may indicate whether a plaque is inflamed; plaque inflammation is suspected to be a key factor deciding whether the plaque is vulnerable to future rupture (leading to heart attack or stroke). Early detection of these vulnerable plaques is essential in order to reduce the number of fatalities occurring every year due to heart disease. A press release about their technology is available here.
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1-3-2006
| Position Opening, Fall 2006 |
We have an opening for a research assistant position working in the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory in the Computer Science Department. The position entails tackling an important and exciting medical image analysis problem in a collaborative effort with institutions at the Texas Medical Center.
Experience in signal or image analysis and object-oriented programming is desirable but not necessary.
The Computational Biomedicine Laboratory is a cutting-edge research facility at the University of Houston with many ongoing projects in the fields of biomedical image analysis, computational biomedicine, and multispectral biometrics. We have continued collaborations with Baylor College of Medicine, Methodist Hospital, and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Interested applicants may contact Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris for more information.
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