Luc M. Bidaut, Ph.D. 1991, Universite de Liege 1992, Universite de Caen The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Department of Imaging Physics Contact Information

Research Interests:

• Advanced biomedical imaging
• Multidimensional imaging
• Multimodality imaging
• Image segmentation
• Image registration
• Image-guided therapy
• Interventional planning
• Quantitative imaging
• Positron emission tomography
• Molecular imaging
• Scientific visualization

My lab's objectives are to deal with the development, implementation and exploitation of sophisticated processing and imaging concepts and techniques beyond (but not exclusive of) standard radiological 2D displays, and to provide a functional gateway between - and support for both - research and clinical applications. The research in my laboratory is principally directed towards furthering the understanding and application/exploitation of biomedical imaging - in its broadest sense - for diagnosis, interventional planning and monitoring, and therapy management. Of primary importance is the understanding of what every modality can bring to this compound concept as well as the extraction of the relevant information from the data at hand and its presentation to the end-user(s) to authorize optimal assessment and exploitation. This research applies to both the human and animal - or even microscopic - sides of biomedical imaging, and to both clinical and research exploitations. Topics and fields of interests can be in part listed as follows:

multidimensional imaging:
3D: surgical planning, morphology, prosthetic design, motion assessment, virtual reality, (tele)manipulation, etc.
3D+: multimodality, multisensor imaging, etc.

parametric imaging:
quantitative imaging
multimodality processing and data recovery
statistics
mapping
etc.

metabolic and functional imaging:
time course (4th D: vascular, etc.)
pharmaco-kinetic modeling
motion estimation and correction
etc.

Also depending on the student's interests and orientation, a tutorial in my laboratory would provide experience into the understanding of one or several imaging modalities and into various ways to exploit their images/data through image/data processing techniques. As a corollary, the student would also be exposed to various image and data processing development environments and concepts (including state-of-the art algorithms and tools) that will be used for either the development of new approaches or the implementation and exploitation of more established ones. Among others, here is a non exhaustive list of fields/topics of interest for potential or ongoing projects and tutorials: segmentation, registration, automatization, navigation/virtual reality, combined modality data processing, 3D (and more) graphics and visualization, data conversion, etc.

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Program Affiliation:

Program in Medical Physics