ICES-BME Doctoral Student is Podium Presenter at Symposium
Article Posted On 5/13/2009
Second year ICES Ph.D. student Judy Shum has been chosen as one of only four podium presenters for the Young Investigators' Symposium to be held at the 2009
Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging Conference. The conference is being organized by the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science in Nashville, Tenn. Shum's research is entitled "Quantitative Assessment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Shape and Rupture Potential." She co-authored this paper with her advisor Associate ICES Research Professor Ender Finol, as well as former ICES researcher Elena DiMartino, former ICES visiting scholar Giampaolo Martufi, J. Grisafi, and S.C. Muluk.
Shum is working on a doctoral degree in biomedical engineering and is working with Finol and the Vascular Biomechanics and Biofluids Laboratory. Her masters degree is in biomedical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and her bachelors degree is in electrical engineering from Bucknell University. Her research is based on developing algorithms for medical image segmentation with the purpose of detecting and quantifying the wall thickness of blood vessels.
