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Ultrasound in medicine and biology clinical prize
Ultrasound in Med. & Biol. Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 3-5, 1991 Printed in the U.S.A.
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OAward ULTRASOUND
IN MEDICINE
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BIOLOGY
CLINICAL
PRIZE
The Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Clinical Prize which is given annually to the authors of a paper published in the journal and judged to be the most innovative clinical paper and of the highest scientific quality has been made to Ann L. Scherzinger, Robert A. Belgam, Paul L. Carson, Charles R. Meyer, Jeffrey V. Sutherland, Fred L. Bookstein and Terry M. Silver for their paper titled "Assessment of ultrasonic computed tomography in symptomatic breast patients by discriminant analysis" from pages 21-28 of Volume 15. The biographies of the authors are given below.
Ann L. Scherzinger
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Ann Scherzinger was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1949. She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Whitman College in 1971 and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1977.
She then became a Post Doctoral fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine under the direction of Paul Carson. As such she worked on ultrasound tissue equivalent phantom materials and quantitative analysis of images. Since 1977, she has been on the faculty at the
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University of Colorado and served as a Medical Physicist in Ultrasound, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Her research interests have centered on developing automated quantitative computer techniques for tissue characterization and lesion detection in digital images. In addition, she devotes major efforts toward the care and feeding of her two children, Greg and Mary.
Robert A. Belgam was born in 1957. He received his B.S. in biomedical engineering from Renssalear Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) in 1979, and his M.S. degree in medical physics from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Denver) in 1981, where his research involved electrons in radiation therapy and ultrasonic computed tomography in breast imaging. He received his M.D. from Albany Medical College (New York) in 1985. His transitional internship was at Oakland Naval Hospital (California) followed by two years of general practice at Naval Medical Clinic in Seattle (Washington). He entered radiation oncology residency in 1988 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, where he is currently chief resident.
Paul L. Carson received his B.S. degree from Colorado College, Colorado Springs in 1965 and his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1971. From 1971 to 1981, he was with the Department of Radiology at the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver and, since 1981, has served as Associate Professor or Professor and as Director of Radiological Physics and Engineering, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center. Since 1972, his research has been primarily in diagnostic ultrasound: quantitative imaging, equipment performance, safety and applications. Dr. Carson is a fellow and past vice-president of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and is a Fellow and past-president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. He is a member of the Commission on Physics and Radiation Protection of the American College of Radiology and of the Board of Governors of the American Institute of Physics.
Charles R. Meyer received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, in 1967 and 1969, respectively. He re-
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ceived the Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University, Ames, in 1972. From 1972 to 1976 he was assigned to the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks AFB, TX, as a Bioengineer. From 1976 to 1979 he held a joint appointment of Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University, and Biomedical Engineer, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. From 1979 to 1981 he was Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver. From 1981 to 1988 he was Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. He currently is Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School. He serves as Director of the Department of Radiology's Digital Image Processing Laboratory and has research interests in the areas of edge detection, multimodality classification, ultrasonic imaging, and tissue characterization. Dr. Meyer is a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
Fred L. Bookstein was born in 1947. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Michigan in 1966, an M.A. in sociology from Harvard in 1971, and the Ph.D. in statistics and zoology from the University of Michigan in 1977. Since then he has mainly been a full-time researcher at the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan, where he presently holds the rank of Distinguished Research Scientist. His research concentrates on the invention of methods for measuring complex systems with hidden parameters. Much of this research deals with morphometrics, the statistical study of biological form and its changes, but the formal strategies required to analyze biomedical images efficiently have counterparts throughout the natural and social sciences wherever crucial determinants of process must be reconstructed from indirect indicators of outcomes.
Terry M. Silver was born in New York City in 1944. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1966 and M.D. from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center (now, Health Science Center at Brooklyn) in 1970. After completing his internship in internal medicine at S.U.N.Y., Downstate/Kings County Hospitals, Dr. Silver returned to the University of Michigan where he completed his residency in diagnostic radiology in
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1974. He then joined the University of Michigan faculty where he has been a Professor of Radiology since 1981, and Associate Chairman since 1984. In 1976, he became Director of the Division of Diagnostic Ultrasound and for many years has been involved in ultrasound research, with emphasis on new applications involving the genitourinary system, pediatrics (including neonatal brain) and intraoperative techniques. He has served as invited faculty at more than 90 postgraduate courses. Since 1977, more than
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2,500 individuals have attended Dr. Silver's annual ultrasound postgraduate course in the fall, at the University of Michigan. He has served on numerous editorial review boards and advisory committees, and has held leadership positions in many organizations, including the A.I.U.M. (Board of Governors), R.S.N.A. (Scientific Program Committee), and Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound. Dr. Silver is a Fellow of both the American College of Radiology and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
0301-5629/91 $3.00 + .00 © 1991 Pergamon Press plc
OAward ULTRASOUND
IN MEDICINE
AND
BIOLOGY
CLINICAL
PRIZE
The Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Clinical Prize which is given annually to the authors of a paper published in the journal and judged to be the most innovative clinical paper and of the highest scientific quality has been made to Ann L. Scherzinger, Robert A. Belgam, Paul L. Carson, Charles R. Meyer, Jeffrey V. Sutherland, Fred L. Bookstein and Terry M. Silver for their paper titled "Assessment of ultrasonic computed tomography in symptomatic breast patients by discriminant analysis" from pages 21-28 of Volume 15. The biographies of the authors are given below.
Ann L. Scherzinger
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Ann Scherzinger was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1949. She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Whitman College in 1971 and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1977.
She then became a Post Doctoral fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine under the direction of Paul Carson. As such she worked on ultrasound tissue equivalent phantom materials and quantitative analysis of images. Since 1977, she has been on the faculty at the
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University of Colorado and served as a Medical Physicist in Ultrasound, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Her research interests have centered on developing automated quantitative computer techniques for tissue characterization and lesion detection in digital images. In addition, she devotes major efforts toward the care and feeding of her two children, Greg and Mary.
Robert A. Belgam was born in 1957. He received his B.S. in biomedical engineering from Renssalear Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) in 1979, and his M.S. degree in medical physics from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Denver) in 1981, where his research involved electrons in radiation therapy and ultrasonic computed tomography in breast imaging. He received his M.D. from Albany Medical College (New York) in 1985. His transitional internship was at Oakland Naval Hospital (California) followed by two years of general practice at Naval Medical Clinic in Seattle (Washington). He entered radiation oncology residency in 1988 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, where he is currently chief resident.
Paul L. Carson received his B.S. degree from Colorado College, Colorado Springs in 1965 and his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1971. From 1971 to 1981, he was with the Department of Radiology at the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver and, since 1981, has served as Associate Professor or Professor and as Director of Radiological Physics and Engineering, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center. Since 1972, his research has been primarily in diagnostic ultrasound: quantitative imaging, equipment performance, safety and applications. Dr. Carson is a fellow and past vice-president of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and is a Fellow and past-president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. He is a member of the Commission on Physics and Radiation Protection of the American College of Radiology and of the Board of Governors of the American Institute of Physics.
Charles R. Meyer received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, in 1967 and 1969, respectively. He re-
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ceived the Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University, Ames, in 1972. From 1972 to 1976 he was assigned to the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks AFB, TX, as a Bioengineer. From 1976 to 1979 he held a joint appointment of Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University, and Biomedical Engineer, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. From 1979 to 1981 he was Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver. From 1981 to 1988 he was Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. He currently is Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School. He serves as Director of the Department of Radiology's Digital Image Processing Laboratory and has research interests in the areas of edge detection, multimodality classification, ultrasonic imaging, and tissue characterization. Dr. Meyer is a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
Fred L. Bookstein was born in 1947. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Michigan in 1966, an M.A. in sociology from Harvard in 1971, and the Ph.D. in statistics and zoology from the University of Michigan in 1977. Since then he has mainly been a full-time researcher at the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan, where he presently holds the rank of Distinguished Research Scientist. His research concentrates on the invention of methods for measuring complex systems with hidden parameters. Much of this research deals with morphometrics, the statistical study of biological form and its changes, but the formal strategies required to analyze biomedical images efficiently have counterparts throughout the natural and social sciences wherever crucial determinants of process must be reconstructed from indirect indicators of outcomes.
Terry M. Silver was born in New York City in 1944. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1966 and M.D. from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center (now, Health Science Center at Brooklyn) in 1970. After completing his internship in internal medicine at S.U.N.Y., Downstate/Kings County Hospitals, Dr. Silver returned to the University of Michigan where he completed his residency in diagnostic radiology in
Award • A. L. SCHERZINGER el aL
1974. He then joined the University of Michigan faculty where he has been a Professor of Radiology since 1981, and Associate Chairman since 1984. In 1976, he became Director of the Division of Diagnostic Ultrasound and for many years has been involved in ultrasound research, with emphasis on new applications involving the genitourinary system, pediatrics (including neonatal brain) and intraoperative techniques. He has served as invited faculty at more than 90 postgraduate courses. Since 1977, more than
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2,500 individuals have attended Dr. Silver's annual ultrasound postgraduate course in the fall, at the University of Michigan. He has served on numerous editorial review boards and advisory committees, and has held leadership positions in many organizations, including the A.I.U.M. (Board of Governors), R.S.N.A. (Scientific Program Committee), and Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound. Dr. Silver is a Fellow of both the American College of Radiology and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.