Jiantao Pu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology
School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Biography:
Jiantao Pu is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he did his postdoctoral research at Stanford University and Purdue University respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Peking University, P.R. China in 2002. His primary interests lie in computer graphics, medical imaging process and human-computer interaction. He is currently working on computer-aided diagnosis, shape based modeling and analysis in medical imaging, and biomedical imaging informatics. He is also the founder of SceneChina Co. (www.scenechina.com) which is one of the largest companies in China focusing on virtual reality and computer graphics. His work involving two- and three dimensional shape analysis & retrieval at Purdue University has been successfully commercialized. He is a member of IEEE, SPIE and ACM Siggraph.
Talk Title: Shape Analysis and Its Applications in Medical Imaging
Abstract: It is widely believed that the geometric shape plays a crucial role in bio-medical imaging. Unfortunately, shape analysis is still uncommon in computational biomedicine as expected because of representation and processing issues. Most existing approaches work primarily in image space for analysis and detection purpose. We are now trying to approach the issues in biomedical imaging from the perspective of shape analysis in geometric space. In this talk, I will introduce our research work and aim to explain that shape analysis in geometric space may lead to solutions to many difficult issues in medical imaging, thereby open the door for the development of numerous far-reaching applications.