Monday, November 23, 2020, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

Jim Nagy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics, Emory University



"Mathematics and Imaging"



Image processing is a very important field of research. At Emory University,a particular focus is on applications in medical imaging. Any medical imaging device (computed tomography, MRI, ultrasound, etc.) requires significant computational work to solve complicated mathematical equations to obtain the final image used by doctors. In addition, mathematical and computational techniques are used to manipulate images. For example, to monitor cancer growth over time, doctors often need to align images of the same object that have different orientations. In this presentation, Jim Nagy, Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics, will describe some important research activities in medical imaging, particularly the work being done by faculty and students in Emory’s mathematics department. But we might note that this is not a mathematics talk. The only prerequisite is the ability to add, multiply, and divide two numbers. Or maybe the ability to repeat: person, woman, man, camera, TV.