Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv
ISRAEL
Phone: +972-3-6407398
Fax: +972-3-6407939
E-mail: [email protected]


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Lab


Research Interests:

Research Areas:

  • Medical image processing and analysis;
  • Statistical image modeling;
  • Segmentation; Classification; Learning;
  • Content-based image and video indexing and retrieval.

Research Focus Areas:

  • MRI Brain Image Analysis; affiliated as a Faculty member in the Sagol school of Brain research and Neuroscience
    • Augmenting resolution in MRI;
    • Neurological diseases, Multiple-Sclerosis;
  • CT lesion analysis;
    • Liver lesions – detection, segmentation, characterization in time
      (Collaborations with Radiology Dept, Stanford & Head of CT Abdomen Unit at Sheba medical center, Israel)
    • Mammmography  - microcalcification analysis, using deep learning methodologies
    • Interstitial Lung Disease  - characterization in CT
  • Uterine-cervix image analysis and indexing for cancer screening;
  • Medical image retrieval from large archives (PACS).

Biography

Prof. Greenspan heads the Medical Image Processing and Analysis Lab at the Biomedical Engineering Dept. in the Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.  Prof. Greenspan has been conducting research in image processing and computer vision for the past 20 years, with a special focus on image modeling and analysis, resolution augmentation, and content-based image retrieval. Prof. Greenspan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from CALTECH – California Institute of Technology, in 1994. She was a Postdoc with the Computer Science Division at U.C. Berkeley from 1995 to 1997. In 1997 she joined Tel-Aviv University.
Prof. Greenspan has 35 journal publications in top-ranking journals, and more than 70 conference publications. She is the inventor of several patents. She is an Associate Editor of the top ranking journal in Medical imaging (IEEE-TMI) and is an active member of several international professional societies.