Faculty

Principal Investigators & Mentors: The four mentors represent a uniquely qualified and diverse body.   They strongly believe that 1) undergraduate students involved in the research process can learn important skills (teamwork, written and oral skills, interdisciplinary thinking and experimental skills) in their early undergraduate studies and 2) participation in research groups can promote retention by increasing personal attachment to the research group, research objectives and the research advisor.  

The four mentors are:

·   Daniela Raicu, PhD, 2002, Assistant Professor, DePaul University, CTI

·   Jacob Furst, PhD, 1998, Associate Professor, DePaul University, CTI

·  David Channin, MD, 1992, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Radiology

·   Samuel G. Armato, PhD, 1997, Associate Professor, The University of Chicago, Cancer Research Center

·   Kenji Suzuki, PhD, 2001, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago, Cancer Research Center

 

The principal investigator, Dr. Raicu, has been involved in an REU site at Oakland University, Michigan, in 2002.  Since then, along with the co-PI, she has mentored several undergraduate and graduate students; two of her female undergraduate students received Computing Research Association National Honor Mentions for excellence in doing undergraduate research at CTI in 2003 and participated in the Computing Research Program’s Distributed Mentor Project in 2003 and 2004.  Additionally, she is the faculty advisor for the student chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) honor society, a chapter which she initiated in May 2003 and is the largest chapter of UPE with over 800 members.  Dr. Raicu has also initiated a weekly seminar for undergraduates interested in working on Visual Computing research.  She is the principal investigator on a Departmental Initiative Grant to create and manage a viable computer vision curriculum at DePaul University, on a Medical Imaging Research Grant,  and on a homeland security research grant from Argonne National Labs.  Along with the co-PI, she directs the Intelligent Multimedia Processing (IMP) Lab and the Medical Imaging Laboratory.  Dr. Raicu has conducted significant previous research work in intelligent multimedia retrieval.

            Dr. Furst has worked extensively with undergraduate students doing research as part of his involvement with both the American Sign Language project and the Medical Imaging project at CTI.  He is also the CTI representative for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Fair “Science Day”, an event for undergraduate students to present their preliminary research results to their colleagues and faculty.  Each year since 2002, both Drs. Raicu and Furst have been awarded grants by the DePaul University Undergraduate Research Assistant Program and the School of CTI to support undergraduate research; they are actively mentoring four undergraduate students under this grant.  Furthermore, under their research supervision, their undergraduate students are authors or co-authors of several publications and posters in the field of medical informatics.  Dr. Furst is also a co-PI on the Departmental Initiative Grant, the Medical Imaging Research Grant,  and the homeland security research grant from Argonne National Labs; he co-directs the Intelligent Multimedia Processing Lab and the Medical Imaging Lab.  Dr. Furst has extensive expertise in the general field of medical image processing.

Dr. Channin received a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and Computer Science from Brandeis University in 1982. He studied medicine for four years at the University of Paris VII before returning to the United States and the Penn State College of Medicine where he earned his M.D. degree in 1992 and completed a residency program in Diagnostic Radiology in 1997. Dr. Channin completed a 5-year residency that included a year of radiologic computing research spread over the course of the 5 years. He is board certified in Diagnostic Radiology by the American Board of Radiology.  Dr. Channin has over 25 years of technical experience working with information systems and programming. He is currently Associate Professor of Radiology, and Chief of Imaging Informatics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology and Medical Director of Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This is a position he has held since finishing residency in 1997.  Dr. Channin is a member of the Radiological Society of North America and has served on its Electronic Communications Committee since 1995. He is a member of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and sits on the IHE Strategic Development Committee. He is a member of the Society of Computer Applications in Radiology and sits on the editorial board of The Journal of Digital Imaging. He also sits on the Biomedical Computing and Healthcare Informatics National Institutes of Health (NIH) study section.  Dr. Channin has supervised over 20 undergraduate students, several of whom have found successful positions in the medical imaging industry; he also has several publications with undergraduate students as co-authors.  He has a very strong publication record in the field of medical informatics.

   Dr. Kenji Suzuki received his B.S. (Magna Cum Laude) and M.S. (Summa Cum Laude) degrees in engineering from Meijo University, Japan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree (by Published Work) in engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2001. From 1993 to 1997, he worked in the Research and Development Center at the Hitachi Medical Corporation as Researcher. He was engaged in research and development of intelligent medical imaging systems, including a digital angiography system, a digital radiography system, a computed tomography system, a magnetic resonance imaging system, and an ultrasound imaging system. From 1997 to 2001, he worked in the Department of Applied Information Science and Technology in the Faculty of Information Science and Technology at the Aichi Prefectural University, Japan, as a faculty member. In 2001, he joined the Kurt Rossmann Laboratories for Radiologic Image Research in the Department of Radiology, Division of the Biological Sciences at The University of Chicago, as Research Associate. He was promoted to Research Associate (Instructor) in 2003, and to Research Associate (Assistant Professor) in 2004. Since 2006, he has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology. Since 2007, he has also been Assistant Professor in the Committee on Medical Physics and the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center.

Dr. Suzuki has been working on interdisciplinary research in medicine and computer science, with its primary focus on research on computer-aided diagnosis of lesions in the abdomen, the thorax, and the heart, and machine learning inspired by the human visual system for image processing and pattern recognition. The long-term goal of his research is to develop a computer that diagnoses diseases in medical images as an expert radiologist does to assist non-expert doctors make diagnoses. To approach his goal, he believes that development of sophisticated machine-learning and image-analysis techniques, their theoretical backups, and understanding of radiologists' decision-making process and the human visual system are essential. He has published more than 100 scientific papers (including 45 peer-reviewed journal papers) in the fields of computer-aided diagnosis, medical image analysis, machine learning, neural networks, computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition. He is inventor/co-inventor on 25 patents (including approximately 10 granted patents). He has been serving as a referee for more than 15 journals in these fields, including IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, IEEE Trans Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Trans Image Processing, and IEEE Trans Neural Networks. He has been serving as an Invited Associate Editor of Medical Physics, and an Editorial Board Member of The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal and The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal. He has received awards for his research, including a Paul C. Hodges Award from the Department of Radiology at The University of Chicago in 2002, a Certificate of Merit Award from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in 2003, an RSNA Research Trainee Prize from the RSNA in 2004, a Young Investigator Award from the Cancer Research Foundation in 2005, and a Certificate of Merit Award from the RSNA in 2006. He also shared awards, including a Best Paper Award for Young Researchers from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 2002, and an Honorable Mention Poster Award at the SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging in 2006. His biography is included in published listings, including Marquis Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who's Who in Finance and Business, and Marquis Who's Who of Emerging Leaders. He has been a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2004.

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