University of Waterloo

Category: Skin Cancer Detection

  • Chi-en (Amy) Tai

    Chi-en (Amy) Tai

    Chi-en (Amy) Tai is a Master of Applied Science student in Systems Design Engineering, supervised by Professor Alexander Wong. She is part of the Cancer-Net initiative focused on cancer diagnosis and prognosis using medical imaging and computer vision. She is also part of the NutritionVerse initiative centered around personalized nutrition intervention and intake estimation.

  • Robert Amelard

    Robert Amelard

    My research passions lie broadly in the realm of computer vision with a HCI/human factors twist. I am focusing my PhD thesis work on extracting hemodynamic information from videos. For my Master’s, I designed intuitive image features to help doctors make more accurate diagnoses of melanoma. Apart from medical image processing, I have also dappled…

  • Robert Amelard

    Robert Amelard

    My research passions lie broadly in the realm of computer vision with a HCI/human factors twist. I am focusing my PhD thesis work on extracting hemodynamic information from videos. For my Master’s, I designed intuitive image features to help doctors make more accurate diagnoses of melanoma. Apart from medical image processing, I have also dappled…

  • Shahid Haider

    Shahid Haider

    I am very interested in spectropolarimetric optical imaging techniques and utilizing them for medical purposes. I have extended interests as well in medical image processing and analysis, in particular with prostate MRI.

  • Andre Carrington

    Andre Carrington

    My research applies computers to analysis and optimization problems in healthcare, with a focus on cancer. This involves pattern recognition, statistical machine learning, health informatics, signal & image processing and other disciplines.

  • Elnaz Barshan

    Elnaz Barshan

    My research interests lie in the area of Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Cognitive Science. I am especially interested in developing new Machine Learning algorithms for analyzing structures in massive data sources as well as learning predictive models based on those structures. Besides this, I am researching about the functionality of human visual system and…

  • Jeffrey Glaister

    Jeffrey Glaister

    My research interests are in the fields of pattern recognition and image processing, applied to biomedical imaging. I am interested in developing image processing algorithms to automate the analysis of medical images, such as those captured using MRI, X-ray or other modalities. Other work is in the area of novel video compression algorithms.

  • Edward Li

    Edward Li

    My research interests are in the fields of computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition with an emphasis on sparse reconstruction, conditional random fields, Hyperspectral imaging, MRI, OCT and other medical imaging techniques and applications.

  • Farnoud Kazemzadeh

    Farnoud Kazemzadeh

    Design, build, and application of scientific multispectroscopic, hyperspectroscopic, and interferometric imaging systems for various sensing applications: up-looking (astronomy) and down-looking (space instrumentation, Earth sciences, biomedicine, security, military).

  • Daniel S. Cho

    Daniel S. Cho

    My research interests are in image processing, medical image registration and reconstruction and I am currently working on computer-aided melanoma (one type of skin cancer) diagnosis through the modeling of physiological characteristics of skin lesions using multi-spectral imagery.