Lectures
Brief Biosketch
Richard Leahy is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and
Radiology at the University of Southern California. He was Director of the USC Signal and
Image Processing Institute from 1997 - 2003. Dr. Leahy is a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and was general chair of the 2004 IEEE
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). He has published over 200 papers
in the field of biomedical signal and image processing. His research interests lie in the
application of signal and image processing theory to biomedical imaging problems. His
research involves the development of methods for anatomical and functional imaging with
applications in neuroimaging and molecular imaging using PET, MRI and EEG/MEG.