Plenoptic Medical Cameras
Liang Gao
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Date: December 5, 2018
Description:
Optical imaging probes like otoscopes and laryngoscopes are essential tools used by doctors to see deep into the human body. Until now, they have been crucially limited to two-dimensional (2D) views of tissue lesions in vivo that frequently jeopardize their diagnostic usefulness. Depth imaging is critically needed in medical diagnostics because most tissue lesions manifest themselves as abnormal 3D structural changes. In this talk, I will talk our recent effort to develop three-dimensional (3D) plenoptic imaging tool that revolutionizes diagnosis with unprecedented sensitivity and specificity in the images produced. Particularly, I will discuss two plenoptic medical cameras, a plenoptic otoscope and a plenoptic laryngoscope, and their applications for in-vivo imaging.
Further Information:
Dr. Liang Gao is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also affiliated with Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His primary research interests encompass multidimensional optical imaging, including hyperspectral imaging and ultrafast imaging, photoacoustic tomography and microscopy, and cost-effective high-performance optics for diagnostics. Dr. Liang Gao is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals, such as Nature, Science Advances, Physics Report, and Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. He received his BS degree in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2005 and Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics and Bioengineering from Rice University in 2011. Dr. Liang Gao is a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2017 and NIH MIRA award for Early-Stage Investigators in 2018.
Created: Friday, December 7th, 2018