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Organization and Members

The ICMIT is comprised of a limited number of Members and Sponsors who have agreed to share their resources to achieve the objectives outlined above. Members are universities and non-profit institutions committed to sponsoring the activites of the ICMIT.

The Consortium can be contacted through its Directorate:

Prof. C. Forbes Dewey, Jr., Co-Director
email: cfdewey@mit.edu
Tel.: +1-617-253-2235
FAX: +1-617-258-8559

Prof. Richard I. Kitney, Co-Director
email: r.kitney@ic.ac.uk
Tel.; +44-171-594-6226
Fax: +44-171-731-6649

The ICMIT has recruited Member organizations throughout the world who have premiere expertise in one or more of the Strategic Technology areas. These organizations and their directors have had a major interest over many years in the development and implementation of technologies critical to the delivery of health care. The members are:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA
(Prof. Forbes Dewey, ICMIT Co-Director)
Publications
Image object formats for all imaging modalities
Feature-oriented advanced image coding and compression
Networked image databases
DICOM standards for pathology images
Economic modeling
High-performance real-time networked computing
(Prof. Ian Hunter)
MIT Bio-Instrumentation Laboratory
Virtual Environments
Telemedicine
Biological Tissue Volumetric Imaging

Imperial College, UK
(Prof. Richard Kitney, ICMIT Co-Director)
Imperial College Department of Biological and Medical Systems
Publications
MR, CT, and ultrasound interpretation systems
Compound multi-modality images
User interfaces for clinical application
Image compression and analysis
Economic modeling
Visualisation Centre

Linkoping University, Sweden
(Prof. Gosta Granlund)
Computer Vision Laboratory
Publications
Image segmentation
Mammography analysis
Generalized operator processing

Ecole Polytechnique de Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
(Prof. Murat Kunt)
Signal Processing Laboratory
Publications
Moving images
Image compression and analysis
Feature extraction of images

University of New South Wales, Australia
(Prof. Branko Celler)
Biomedical Systems Laboratory
Publications
Biological signal processing
Primary healthcare informatics
Electrocardiograms

Johns Hopkins University, USA
(Prof. Aleksander Popel)
Center for Computational Medicine and Biology
Publications
Computational modeling of cardiovascular system
Image-based structural and physiological modeling
Database technology

University of Tokyo, Japan
(Prof. Moto Sugawara)
Medical biophysics
Biomedical measurements
Image understanding

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
(Prof. Kunihiro Chihara)
Chihara Lab, Image Processing Laboratory
Publications (database)
Medical biophysics
Diagnostic Ultrasound imaging
Telemedicine

The Cleveland Clinic, USA
(Prof. James Thomas)
Cardiovascular Imaging Center
Publications
Cardiovascular ultrasound
Image compression
Image interpretation

The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
(Prof. Benoit Macq)
Image Processing and Coding Group
Publications
Image analysis
Electronic security
Image compression

Heart Institute, University Hospital Sao Paolo, Brazil
(Dr. Sergio Furuie)
Research & Development Group, Division of Informatics
Publications
Image segmentation
Image feature extraction
Integration of medical information
Electronic patient record development
Telemedicine

University of Southern California, USA
(Prof. James Halls)
USC Department of Radiology
MR Imaging
Interventional radiology
Image-enabled patient information systems

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