Seminars in Medical Physics

Time: Every-other Tuesday at 12:00 (bring your lunch) *

Location: Bryan Research Building, Rm 162

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan 28, 03	Hiro Yoshida, PhD Univ of Chicago	Computer-aided diagnosis in CT Colonography [tentative title]
Feb 11, 03	Rob Saunders, Pre-SPIE: Impact of resolution and noise characteristics of digital radiographic systems on the detectability of lung nodules. Dave Catarious Mammographic mass CAD system incorporating features from shape, fractal, and channelized Hotelling observer Measurements: preliminary results. Anya Bilska-Wolak Prediction of breast biopsy outcome using a likelihood ratio classifier and biopsy cases from two medical centers
Feb 26, 03*	Devon Godfery	Post-SPIE: Practical strategies for the clinical implementation of matrix inverse tomosynthesis
Mar 12, 03*	Ehsan Samei, PhD	Resolution and noise in digital radiographic systems: a tutorial
Mar 25, 03	Dave Catarious	Journal club: Lung nodule detection on thoracic computed tomography images: Preliminary evaluation of a computer-aided diagnosis system, Gurcan, Sahiner, et al., Med Phys 29, 2002
Apr 8, 03	Jay Baker, MD	Journal club: Screening Mammography with Computer-aided Detection: Prospective Study of 12,860 Patients in a Community Breast Center, Freer and Ulissey, Radiology 220, 2001.
Apr 22, 03	Gina Tourassi, PhD, Joseph, Lo, PhD	Free-response Receiver Operating Characteristic (FROC) Analysis
May 6, 03	Harrell Chotas, MS	PACS at Duke

* Note the change of date for some seminars from Tuesday to Weds.