Awards & Honors

Scientific Recognition

• Invited speaker in a workshop on Solving Computational Challenges in Medical Imaging, Univ. of Washington, Seatle , July 2007.

• Invited speaker at Nationl Brain Research Center, New Delhi, India, Feb 2006.

• Organizer of a day long workshop on neuroinformatics at NIPS 2005 (Dec 2005).

  NIPS 2005 Workshop on Redifining Anatomical Boundaries of the brain

• Plaque for pioneering a course on technology commercialization for engineers at the University of Washington, Seattle (2004).

• Principal investigator of several NIH funded grants (2 R44 AG19275-02; 1 R43 HL069450-01A2; 1 R43 CA101292-01; 2 R44 CA099329-02)

• SPIE Medical Imaging honorable mention for scientific poster.(Feb 2003)

• Runner up in the SPIE Medical Imaging conference student paper competition. (Feb 2000)

• SPIE Medical Imaging honorable mention for scientific poster.(Feb 2000)

• Finalist in the International IEEE/EMBS student paper competition.

• SPIE Medical Imaging honorable mention for scientific poster.(Feb 1997)

• Institution Silver Medal for best academic performance in electrical engineering.(June 1994)

• Best undergraduate project in electrical engineering.(May 1994)

• University Merit Awards for outstanding academic achievement.(1991-1994)

Services & Professional Memberships

• IEEE member (1999-present)

• Bioengineering student advisory board member (1999-2000)

• Bioimaging pathway representative (1996-2000)

Patents and Invention Disclosures

• System and method for mining quantitative information from medical images, US patent 7,158,692, Jan 2007.

• Intraoperative Dosimetry for Prostate Brachytherapy Using Transrectal Ultrasound and X-ray Fluoroscopy. (UW Reference # 7675P.1PRO: provisional patent), Oct 2007.

• Detecting pubic arch and assessing pubic arch interference, US Patent 6,027,446, Aug 2000.

• Pipeline process for automatically measuring object boundary from ultrasound image samples, US patent 5,795,296, Aug 18, 1998.

• Methods and systems for object recognition in noise data, US patent pending

• ProSeed: A tool to count seeds in post-implant CT images after prostate brachytherapy, University of Washington Office of Technology Transfer (UW OTT) (Ref # 2215-2893).

• Edge guidance outlining of prostate ultrasound images with just-enough-interaction, UW OTT (Ref # 2215-3173).

• Library of image computing routines, UW OTT (Ref # 1780-079497DL).

• Ultrasound image contrast enhancement via integrating transducer position information, UW OTT (Ref # 2587-3312).

Media Reports

• UW Press on New Ultrasound Technology for Prostate Cancer Treatment
  
  
• UniSci Article on the New Technology for Treating Prostate Cancer
  
  

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