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Blog from March, 2012
Eliot L. Siegel, MD, FACR, FSIIM, is a professor and vice chair of imaging informatics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he heads the Maryland Imaging Research Technologies Laboratory. He is also chief of Imaging Services for the Maryland Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Dr. Siegel is board certified in both radiology and nuclear medicine and a fellow of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine as well as a fellow of the American College of Radiology. In addition, he is also the Lead Subject Matter Expert in the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®) In Vivo Imaging Workspace.
SYNOPSIS: The Jeopardy match between the two best human players of all time and the IBM Deep Q/A software, “Watson,” captured the spotlight and stimulated the imagination of the entire world. The subsequent announcement of IBM’s involvement in the creation of “Dr. Watson” has created a high level of interest in the healthcare community about the potential of this breakthrough technology as well as the potential pitfalls of the use of “artificial intelligence” in medicine. Dr. Siegel is currently working together with IBM engineers to explore how Dr. Watson can work together with physicians and medical specialists. His presentation on March 28th will provide a high level overview of the uniqueness of Deep Q/A Software and how it differs from other previous artificial intelligence applications.
Date: March 28, 2012
Time: 11:00 to 12:00 Noon
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on YouTube 
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
Join us on Wednesday March 14th at 11:00 am to hear Dr. Lee Cooper deliver a virtual presentation via Adobe Connect highlighting his recent publication, “Integrated morphologic analysis for the identification and characterization of disease subtypes.” Dr. Cooper is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Comprehensive Informatics at Emory University. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University in 2009, where he worked to develop computational methods for image-based phenotyping in mouse models of breast cancer. Dr. Cooper joined Emory in 2009 where he works under the guidance of Joel Saltz to develop methods for analyzing and integrating genomic and imaging datasets to discover associations among pathology, genetics, and patient outcomes. While at Emory, Dr. Cooper has co-authored several methodological and scientific papers describing work performed at the Emory In Silico Brain Tumor Research Center.
Publication: PDF
Presentation: The presentation will be available for viewing after the event on our Speaker Series Videos page and on YouTube .
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
