I am a post-doctoral researcher of Vision Lab at UCLA. I am working with Prof. Stefano Soatto on Computer Vision and Medical Imaging (Apr. 2005 - onwards). I finished my Ph.D. at Medical Vision Lab under the supervison of Prof. Sir Michael Brady at University of Oxford in England (Oct. 2001 - Apr. 2005). My master's degree was earned from Computer Vision Lab under the supervision of Prof. Shimon Ullman at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel (Oct. 1999 - Sep. 2001). As described above my educational background varies in subject and places. As a christian I strongly believe that God guided my life in His great will and all my training and discipline will be used for His glory. [picture:: me at Jerico cafe in Oxford, England on Mar. 2005]

I am currently involved in Center for Computational Biology and my main interest includes segmentation of medical images and shape analysis. Segmentation is one of the most significant tasks in computer vision and medical imaging, however it is often considered as a very difficult problem since there is no universal descriptor for regions to be segmented and the boundries of segmentation often appear subtle. Shape plays an important role in image understanding and object interpretation. This high level visual information is clearly beneficial to segmentation and it is of great interest to develop a segmentation algorithm incorporating shape information. During my Ph.D. I mainly focused on Digital Mammogram which aimed to develop a Computer-Aided Diagnosis system in the diagnosis of breast cancer which is one of major causes of death among women in many counties. My Ph.D. work includes segmentation of regions of interest (ROI's) in mammograms and registration of temporal or bilateral mammograms. During my master I worked on face recognition using informative fragments which were applied for classifying asian faces versis western faces. [picture:: composition_viii of Kandinsky. I put this picture even though it is not related to my research. I just like it :-)]

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