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Beatrice Knudsen Lab

Lab Members and Collaborators

Lab Members

Beatrice S. Knudsen, MD, PhD

Over the last 10 years, I built a program that integrates histopathology, multiplex tissue staining, digital image analysis and computational pathology for biomarker development. Advances in machine learning and high-performance computing permit the extraction of quantitative data from images of cancer tissues form patients and mouse models and to ... Read More

Specialties: Pathology, Anatomical

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Dave Curtis, MD

Resident

Born and raised in Salt Lake City Utah, Dr. David Curtis earned a BS in Neuroscience at Brigham Young University. He then completed his MS in Neuroscience and Pharmacology and his MD at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. While he and his wife enjoy exploring Utah with their son, they're usually found at home cooking, hanging laundry to dry, and failing to keep their son out of the garden.

Email:  David.Curtis@hsc.utah.edu

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Alessandro Ferrero

Graduate Research Assistant

Location: Scientific Imagining and Computing Institute

Supervisor: Dr. Ross Whitaker

Research Interests:

  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Image Processing
  • Machine Learning

 

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Bodong Zhang

Graduate Research Assistant

Location: Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

Supervisor: Dr. Tolga Tasdizen

Background: Bodong received his B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China in Electronic Information Engineering and his M.S. from University of Utah in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also worked as Image Processing Software Engineer at Code Corporation in Greater Boston Area for four years.

Current Responsibilities: Ph.D. student working with Dr. Beatrice Knudsen and Dr. Tolga Tasdizen on image processing and deep learning. Help develop deep learning algorithms to analyze medical images.

 

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Tushar Kataria

Graduate Research Assistant

Location: Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

Supervisor: Dr. Shireen Elhabian

Research Interests: Image processing, Machine learning, Deep Learning, Medical imaging, Medical image processing.

 

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Collaborators at the University of Utah

Alejandro Sanchez, MD

Dr. Sanchez’s research interests:

  • Clinical trials
  • Translational research

Dr. Sanchez practices at Huntsman Cancer Hospital, Sugarhouse Health Center and the VA.

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Ross Whitaker, PhD

Resident

Location: Scientific Imagining and Computing Institute

Research Interests:

  • Image Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Medical Imaging
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization
  • 3D Signal Processing and Surface Reconstruction
  • Medical Image Analysis

 

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Collaborators at other institutions

Isla Garraway, MD, PhD

Institution: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Associate Professor, Department of Urology
Director of Research, Department of Urology
Member, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Member, Broad Stem Cell Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research

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Michael Freeman, PhD

Professor of Computer Science; Director - School of Computing

Institution: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Ben Maltz Chair in Cancer Therapeutics
Vice Chair, Research, Department of Surgery
Director, Division of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Research in the Department of Biomedical Sciences
Co-Director, Cancer Biology Program
Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Professor, Surgery

 

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Joel Saltz, MD, PhD

Professor of Computer Science; Director - School of Computing

Institution: Stony Brook University - SUNY

Cherith Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Vice President for Clinical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine
Associate Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center

Department of Biomedical Informatics

 

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