Shuo Li, Director of the Digital Imaging Group of London
Associate Editor of Medical Image Analysis Journal
Associate Editor of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Title: Towards Medical Image Analysis without Segmentation
Abstract:
Segmentation has long been regarded as the “must have” pre-processing for medical image analysis, especially quantitative analysis.
In the last two decades, tremendous efforts have been made to solve the challenging segmentation issues. Great progress has been
made on multiple aspects. However, there is still a long way to go before we can have clinical satisfactory image segmentations in
most existing clinical applications. Recently researchers have found image segmentation may not be needed. By leveraging strength
of fast growing machine learning, direct medical image analysis is formulated as regression powered by big medical data. The
recent intensive clinical validation on direct medical analysis without intermediate segmentation has proven its effectiveness and
efficiency in multiple clinical quantitative analysis and diagnosis.
Brief Bio:
Dr. Shuo Li is an associate professor in department of medical imaging and medical biophysics in the University of Western Ontario
and scientist in Lawson Health Research Institute. Before this position he was research scientist and project manager in general
electric (GE) healthcare, Canada for 9 years. He fund and direct the Digital Imaging Group of London (http://digitalimaginggroup.ca/)
since 2006, which is a very dynamic and highly multiple disciplinary collaboration group. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer
science from Concordia University 2006, where his PhD thesis won the doctoral prize giving to the most deserving graduating
student in the faculty of engineering and computer science. He has published over 100 publications; He is the recipient of several GE
internal awards; He serves as guest editors and associate editor in several prestigious journals in the field; He servers as program
committee members in highly influential conferences; He is the editors of five springer books.His current interest is development
intelligent analytic tools to help physicians and hospital administrative to handle the big medical data, centered with medical images.