Miss Yan Zhou, PhD student in the Computational Physiology Lab, bags a poster paper award at the prestigious MICCAI 2009 Conference
Yan Zhou, a PhD student at the Computer Science Department of the University of Houston received one of the best poster paper awards in this year's International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009 (http://www.miccai2009.org/). MICCAI is the premium medical imaging conference. The acceptance rate for poster papers was 27% this year. Yan's poster paper was in a competition with a total of 75 other entries. The paper's title is "Tissue Tracking in Thermo-physiological Imagery through Spatio-temporal Smoothing" and is available for preview at the Computational Physiology Lab's web site (http://cpl.uh.edu). Yan's PhD advisor is Prof. Pavlidis and her research is funded by his National Science Foundation grant "Do Nintendo Surgeons Defy Stress?"