Jim Duncan, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, CT, USA

Lectures

  1. Recovery of Soft Tissue Deformation from Medical Images (mainly work on the Left ventricle of the heart and brain shift in epilepsy surgery)
  2. Geometric Strategies for Neuroanatomic Analysis from MRI (mostly different approaches for cortical + subcortical segmentation)
  3. fMRI Analysis Using Prior Information
  4. Registration and plan updating for Image Guided Intervention (primarily for Epilepsy, Neurosurgery and/or Prostate Radiotherapy).


Brief Biosketch

James S. Duncan is the Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of  Biomedical Engineering, as well as a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Electrical Engineering at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. He trained in Electrical Engineering, receiving the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1982.   His research and teaching efforts have been in the areas of computer vision, image processing and medical imaging, with an emphasis in biomedical image analysis. Currently, he is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Associate Chair of Biomedical Engineering and the Vice-Chair for Bioimaging Sciences research in Diagnostic Radiology. His specific research interests include the segmentation of deformable structure from 3D image data, the tracking of non-rigid  motion deformation from spatiotemporal images and development of strategies for image-guided intervention surgery. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles in these areas and has been the principal investigator on a  number of peer-reviewed grants from both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation over the past 25 years. From 1973-1983, he was a member of the technical staff and Section Head at Hughes Aircraft Company, Electro- Optical and Data Systems Group, El Segundo, California, and joined the Yale faculty in 1983.  Professor Duncan is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, is a Fellow of the IEEE and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He was awarded the “MICCAI 2008 Significant Researcher Award,” given for his “pioneering research on Statistical and Deformable Model-Based Methods and their multi-organ-based applications.”  He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision,  is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on  Medical Imaging and is one of the founding  co-Editors-in-Chief of the journal Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier). He was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands during part of the 1993-94 academic year. In 1997, he chaired the 15th international meeting on  Information Processing in Medical Imaging and was the general chair for the 2005 meeting on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI).   From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Duncan was a charter member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diagnostic Imaging Study Section, serving as its Chair from 2001-2003.