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Ayman El Baz

Biography

Ayman El-Baz, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville, KY. Dr. El-Baz has ten years of hands-on experience in the fields of bioimaging modeling and computer-assisted diagnostic systems. He has developed new techniques for analyzing 3D medical images. His work has been reported at several prestigious international conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, MICCAI, etc.) and in journals (e.g., IEEE TIP, IEEE TBME, IEEE TITB, Brain, etc.). Dr. El-Baz has extensive experience in automated diagnosis of autism in MR images. His work related to novel image analysis techniques for autism diagnosis has earned him multiple awards, including: first place at the annual Research Louisville 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 meetings, and the "Best Paper Award in Medical Image Processing" from the prestigious ICGST International Conference on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing (GVIP-2005). Dr. El-Baz has authored or coauthored more than 192 technical articles (32 journals, 4 books, 23 book chapters, 103 refereed-conference papers, 30 abstracts published in proceedings, and 4 US patents).

Research Interest

Developing novel computer-assisted diagnostic systems
New techniques for medical images analysis
Image-guided surgery