Skin Cancer Detection – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP https://vip.uwaterloo.ca The University of Waterloo's Vision and Image Processing Lab Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:15:48 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Skin Cancer Detection – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP https://vip.uwaterloo.ca 32 32 Amy Tai https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/amy-tai/ Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:06:08 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=4249 Amy Tai is a PhD student in the Vision and Image Processing Lab at the University of Waterloo. She is in the Computer Science program and supervised by Alexander Wong and Lukasz Golab. Her research focuses on the cancer domain with focus on medical imaging and computer vision. Previously, she completed her Master of Applied Sciences in the Systems Design Engineering program and her Bachelor of Applied Science in Management Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Outside of research, she enjoys playing squash, travelling, hiking, and swimming.

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/amy-tai

Supervisors
Alexander Wong
Research interests
Amy’s research areas include medical image analysis, personalized nutrition intervention for the aging population, and improved rendering of 3D models. As a lead on the Cancer-Net initiatives, she is focused on providing open-sourced datasets and pre-trained models for the task of cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and nutritional intake estimation, respectively. In general, Amy is interested in medical research that leverages technological advancements to improve healthcare for all.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Research demos
Correlated Diffusion Imaging
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Chi-en (Amy) Tai https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/c-tai/ Sun, 07 May 2023 17:28:05 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3325 Amy Tai is a Master of Applied Science student in the Vision and Image Processing Lab at the University of Waterloo. She is in the Systems Design Engineering program and supervised by Professor Alexander Wong. Her research focuses on cancer diagnosis and prognosis using medical imaging and computer vision. Previously, she completed her Bachelor of Applied Science in Management Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Outside of research, she enjoys hiking, travelling, rock climbing, playing squash, and swimming.

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/amy-tai

Supervisors
Alexander Wong
Research interests
Amy’s research areas include medical image analysis, personalized nutrition intervention for the aging population, and improved rendering of 3D models. As a collaborator on the Cancer-Net and NutritionVerse initiatives, she is focused on providing open-sourced datasets and pre-trained models for the task of cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and nutritional intake estimation, respectively. In general, Amy is interested in medical research that leverages technological advancements to improve healthcare for all.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Research demos
Correlated Diffusion Imaging
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Robert Amelard https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/r-amelard/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:37:22 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3219 I completed my Ph.D. with professors Alex Wong and David Clausi. Please see my new website for updated activities:

Website: http://www.robertamelard.com/

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Research interests
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 with remote sensing (hyper- & multi-spectral) and photogrammetry (3D stereo vision). Wherever I find myself, I aim to devote my skills to create socially responsible technology to help make people’s lives more meaningful.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Remote Sensing
Research demos
Coded Hemodynamic Imaging
Skin Cancer Detection
Stereo Vision for Dimension Estimation
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Robert Amelard https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/r-amelard-2/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:34:42 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3216 I completed my M.A.Sc. with professors Alex Wong and David Clausi. Please see my new website for updated activities:

Website: http://www.robertamelard.com/

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Research interests
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 with remote sensing (hyper- & multi-spectral) and photogrammetry (3D stereo vision). Wherever I find myself, I aim to devote my skills to create socially responsible technology to help make people’s lives more meaningful.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Remote Sensing
Research demos
Coded Hemodynamic Imaging
Skin Cancer Detection
Stereo Vision for Dimension Estimation
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Shahid Haider https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/s-haider/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:02:53 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=2203
Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Research interests
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.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Scientific Imaging
Stochastic Models
Video Analysis
Research demos
Computer Vision for Autonomous Robots
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Andre Carrington https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/a-carrington/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:45:37 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=1438 My research applies artificial intelligence to prediction and pattern recognition in healthcare, with heterogeneous data consisting of numeric, categorical, image or waveform data.  I have a B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering and an M.Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.  I have given lectures at UW and at U of T’s School of Continuing Studies; and I helped develop and teach a worldwide course at IBM.

I have 18 years of IT leadership experience in industry.  Most recently I led IT strategy work for the University Health Network’s Multi Organ Transplant group in collaboration with UW; and I was the Director of Privacy & Security at Canada Health Infoway with oversight on federally funded Electronic Health Record projects in each province.  I have my own company, Bedrock Security Services Inc, whose clients included Canada Health Infoway, Telus, IBM and the Center for Internet Security; and I have also worked at Sobeys, Scotiabank, IBM and other organizations.

My non-academic publications include:

Sasha Bojicic, David Pare, Robert Caron, André Carrington, Lloyd MacKenzie, et al. Transport Layer Interoperability Specification v3.1, Canadian Draft for Use, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, Canada, July 2011.

Ingrid J. Petersen, André Carrington, et al. Wireless Security benchmark v1.0, Center for Internet Security, U.S.A., 2005.

Supervisors
Paul Fieguth
Research interests
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.  I am supervised by Prof. Paul Fieguth and Prof. Helen Chen.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Image Segmentation/Classification
Stochastic Models
Research demos
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Elnaz Barshan https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/e-barshan/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:09:19 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=1431 I am a Ph.D. student researching scale-space methods in deep belief networks. I am working to model properties of the human visual system.

Supervisors
Paul Fieguth
Research interests
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 about predictive models based on those structures. Additionally, I am researching about the functionality of human visual system and learn how to model impressive properties of this mysterious system.
Research topics
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Research demos
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Jeffrey Glaister https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/j-glaister/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:33:19 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=1194 I received my BASc in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2011.  Through my co-op terms, I gained experience in medical imaging by working for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. As part of my 3rd year design project, I developed a signature recognition system for point-of-sale authentication. For my 4th year design project, I worked on a novel video compression algorithm.

Email: jeffrey.glaister@uwaterloo.ca

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Research interests
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.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Research demos
Bias Field Correction in Endorectal Diffusion Imaging
Correlated Diffusion Imaging
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Edward Li https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/e-li/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:27:05 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=1185 I am originally from Beijing, China. I moved to Canada in 2005. I am currently a MASc student in the VIP lab working on biomedical imaging applications, hyperspectral imaging technologies and image sparse reconstruction. 

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Research interests
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, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other medical imaging techniques and applications. 
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Remote Sensing
Research demos
Compressed Sensing
Image Denoising
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Farnoud Kazemzadeh https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/f-kazemzadeh/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:18:40 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=1173 I am a Ph.D. student researching various imaging systems for different sensing applications.

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Research interests
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).
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Remote Sensing
Scientific Imaging
Research demos
Compressed Sensing
Multiplexed Optical High-coherence Interferometry
Skin Cancer Detection
Stereo Vision for Dimension Estimation
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

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