Ghassan Hamarneh
Associate Professor
School of Computing Science
Faculty of Applied Science
Simon Fraser University

ACM & IEEE Senior Member
BRC RAMP NeuroDevNet
BIONF MICCAI
 
Medical Image Analysis Lab

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Supervisory committee member

  • Andrea Tagliasacchi (PhD student of Richard Zhang)
  • Manku Rana (MSc student of James Wakeling)

Prospective Traineestop/Students

Open PhD Position

Visiting students, see this.
Openings

We have openings for projects and/or theses work related to biomedical imaging, image processing and analysis, 3D shape modeling and related topics. See  Research overview and  Skills needed and acquired at MIAL. More about MIA topics from MICCAI website and from MedIA journal.

Funding
  • Fully funded positions are available for outstanding students and trainees at different levels (undergrad, masters, doctorate, postdoctoral).
  • Funding is primarily or completely provided through research assistantships.
  • Funding for conference travel is also available.
  • Top-ups for scholarships holders (e.g. NSERC) are available.
  • There are other several sources of top-ups and internal funding from SFU and external funding form NSERC, CIHR, MSFHR, MITACS (e.g. globalink) and others...
Infrastructure
  • Student will have access to an exciting research environments and state-of-the-art, CFI-funded  infrastructure (software, workstations, high-performance computers, visualization, etc) at the medical image analysis lab and through other computing infrastructures e.g. SCIRF, WESTGRID, in addition to access to unique medical image data from national and international clinical collaborators!
Courses requirements
  • PhD  students typically need to pass 4 courses (after their Masters). Masters thesis students must pass 5 courses, whereas masters project students require 8 courses.
  • Take a look at the skills needed and acquired at  MIAL.
  • Consider a project-based course CMPT415 / CMPT894 or my other courses. There are many other relevant courses in Computing Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Kinesiology, and even at other universities, e.g. at UBC (through the WCDGS agreement).
Location
Career opportunities:
Other benefits of carrying out research at MIAL
  • Learn about medical imaging and biomedical image computing. Medical imaging has revolutionized medicine and the role of computing continues to grow. There is a demand in the industry, hospitals,  and academia for skilled computer scientists with skills in interdisciplinary research and development. Also note that Health and Imaging Science have been identified as strategic research directions for SFU.
  • Learn to apply computing science, engineering, and mathematical methods to real-life health-related medical imaging applications.
  • Participate in national and international research collaborations to solve difficult problems related to health and medical imaging while using computational and mathematical techniques.
  • Learn new programming skills or improve your existing skills (e.g. using Generic programming and MATLAB) and apply it to medical image processing.
  • Learn to use 3D medical imaging software (e.g. slicer, volview) and medical imaging API (e.g. ITK).
  • Learn how to implement medical image processing/analysis algorithms, analyze the performance and limitations of such algorithms, and invent or design better algorithms.
  • Learn about general health applications of computing, medical imaging in particular.
  • Work and establish links to doctors and hospitals. Our collaborators appreciate the need for skilled computer scientists and mathematicians. We work together on solving clinical problems (diagnosis, therapy, and understanding of diseases), through medical imaging.
  • Tap into health funding for graduate and postdoctoral studies in computer science, engineering or math (e.g. CIHR, MSFHR). Some of my students hold such funding.
  • Improve your writing skills and become involved in publishing at national and international conferences and journals. Travel in Canada or abroad to present your work Even some of my undergraduate students have published and participated in international conferences.
  • Apply many of the methods learned for analyzing medical images to other visual computing applications.
Interested students?
More info about graduate studies?

Former Trainees/Students

Student names are followed by the student's ,current affiliation. If you believe there is an error in the stated affiliation please contact me.
 
 
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