IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Quantifying exchange in myelin water imaging

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Date 16.09.2022
Hour 14:1515:00
Speaker Jeffrey Fessler
William L. Root Collegiate Professor of EECS
University of Michigan, USA
Location Online
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English
Abstract
Mapping myelin water exchange rates could potentially be useful for understanding and characterizing different brain diseases. Quantifying exchange between myelin and non-myelin water is a challenging parameter estimation problem in MRI. This work considers a set of balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) scans. We optimize the scan parameters using Cramer-Rao lower bound methods, towards the goal of estimating exchange maps with good precision, for a two-pool model.
Joint work with Naveen Murthy, Jon Nielsen, Nicole Seiberlich, Scott Swanson, Steven Whitaker.

Bio
Jeffrey A. Fessler is the William L. Root Professor of EECS at the University of Michigan. He received the BSEE degree from Purdue University in 1985, the MSEE degree from Stanford University in 1986, and the M.S. degree in Statistics from Stanford University in 1989. From 1985 to 1988 he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at Stanford, where he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1990. He has worked at the University of Michigan since then. From 1991 to 1992 he was a Department of Energy Alexander Hollaender Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Division of Nuclear Medicine. From 1993 to 1995 he was an Assistant Professor in Nuclear Medicine and the Bioengineering Program. He is now a Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006, for contributions to the theory and practice of image reconstruction. He received the Francois Erbsmann award for his IPMI93 presentation, and the Edward Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award in 2013. He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, and is currently serving as an associate editor for SIAM J. on Imaging Science. He has chaired the IEEE T-MI Steering Committee and the ISBI Steering Committee. He was co-chair of the 1997 SPIE conference on Image Reconstruction and Restoration, technical program co-chair of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), and general chair of ISBI 2007. His research interests are in statistical aspects of imaging problems, and he has supervised doctoral research in PET, SPECT, X-ray CT, MRI, and optical imaging problems.
 

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