Directors

Co-director

Andrew D.A. Maidment, Ph.D., FAAPM

Penn X-Ray Physics Laboratory

Co-director

Alison Pouch, Ph.D.

Penn Image Computing and Science Lab

Co-director

Jim Gee, Ph.D.

Penn Image Computing and Science Lab


Current Students

2023

Ellie Chang

Cosette Tomita

Sophia Zhou

Octavio Lopez (M.D./Ph.D.)

2022

Raheema Damani

Rotations:
Walter Witschey, Ph.D.

Research interests:
CT-based biomarkers for measuring sarcopenia and myosteatosis in preoperative patients

Fellowships:
Fontaine Fellow

Vincent Dong

Rotations:
Andrew D.A. Maidment, Ph.D., FAAPM

Research interests:
Explainable AI (XAI) techniques to extract clinically interpretable features from radiographic images

Kate Jaroszynski

Rotations:
Chamith Rajapakse, Ph.D.
Felix Wehrli, Ph.D.

2021

Deonte Hall

Advisor:
Jayaram Udupa, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Efficient and accurate image processing in radiation therapy planning

Fellowships:
Fontaine Fellow

Jessica Im

Advisor:
Peter B. Noël, Ph.D.

Research interest:
3D printed phantoms for CT imaging research

Shurik Zavriyev

Advisor:
Terence Gade, M.D., Ph.D.

Research interest:
Liver cancer metabolism imaging

Kalil Shaw (M.D./Ph.D.)

Rotations:
David Issadore, Ph.D.
Arjun Yodh, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Non-invasive point of care devices for diagnosis and monitoring of disease

Michael Yao (M.D./Ph.D.)

Advisor:
Jim Gee, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Algorithms and computational methods for MRI

2020

Jennifer Ferd

Advisor:
Andrew Tsourkas, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Rapid image screening and cancer detection

Fellowships:
NSF-GRFP, Fontaine Fellow

Olivia Sandvold

Advisor:
Peter B. Noël, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Evaluation and improvement of spectral CT instrumentation techniques

Serena Shi

Advisor:
Peter B. Noël, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Dark-field and phase-contrast x-ray imaging

Fellowships:
NSF-GRFP

Brian Vu

Advisors:
Chamith Rajapakse, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Sparse and redundant representations for efficient in vivo quantification of trabecular and cortical bone biometrics

Fellowships:
Fontaine Fellow, Barry Goldwater Scholarship, Marcus L. Uraan Fellowship

2019

Leening Liu

Advisor:
Peter B. Noël, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Clinical applications of spectral CT, spectral CT thermometry

Christina Chen (M.D./Ph.D.)

Advisor:
Russell T. Shinohara, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Statistics and imaging

2018

Bonirath Chhay

Advisor:
Andrew Tsourkas, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Targeting nanoplatforms

Chloe Jeongin Choi

Advisor:
Andrew D.A. Maidment, Ph.D., FAAPM

Research interest:
Digital breast tomosynthesis

Sophie Swago

Advisor:
Walter Witschey, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Development and applications of downfield MR spectroscopy

Fellowships:
NIH F31

Beth Thompson (M.D./Ph.D.)

Advisor:
Walter Witschey, Ph.D.

Research interest:
Right ventricular modeling in tetralogy of Fallot