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 Prof. Nanguang Chen National University of Singapore, Singapore |
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| Title: Optical breast atlas and image reconstruction in optical mammography | |
| Abstract: Optical breast atlases have been created from human breast dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) data using image segmentation and mathematical models for tissue deformation. The breast atlases can be used to generate a huge number of simulated data that better mimic the experimental data from human subjects with a wide range of experimental setups. To demonstrate the usefulness of the optical breast atlases, we generate simulated measurement data by the use of compressed breast models. Standard image reconstruction algorithms, as well as a deep-learning network based reconstruction algorithm, are employed to perform image reconstruction. The quality of reconstructed images is then assessed to quantitatively compare the performance of those reconstruction algorithms. | |
| Biography: Dr. Nanguang Chen is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2000 from Tsinghua University. He also received his MSc in Physics and BSc in Electrical Engineering in 1994 (Peking University), and 1988 (Hunan University), respectively. He joined the Optical and Ultrasound Imaging Lab at the University of Connecticut in 2000 as a postdoctoral fellow and then became an Assistant Research Professor in 2002. Since 2004, he has been a faculty member with NUS. His research interests include diffuse optical tomography, optical coherence tomography, and novel microscopic imaging methods. | |
