Undergrad Stephen Siena Co-Authors Medical Imaging Paper

11/05/2009:

Undergraduate computer science student Stephen Siena will be presenting a paper at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference in February 2010. Stephen will be presenting research from a medical informatics REU during the summer of 2009 at the University of DePaul. The paper is titled "A shape- dependent variability metric for evaluating panel segmentations with a case study on LIDC data." Stephen's research developed an algorithm to quantify the level of disagreement between multiple experts' outlines of lung nodules. The paper is co-authored by Harvard undergraduate Olga Zinoveva and DePaul professors Daniela Raicu and Jacob Furst.

Stephen is currently working with Professor Chawla on medical informatics projects.