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Ultrasound in medicine and biology clinical prize
Ultrasound in Med. & BioL Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 89-90, 1988
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OAward ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY CLINICAL PRIZE The Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Clinical Prize which is given to the authors of a clinical paper published in the preceding volume of the journal and judged by members of the Editorial Board to be the most innovative and of the highest scientific quality has been made to Ernest J. Feleppa, Frederic L. Lizzi, D. Jackson Coleman and Mykola M. Yaremko for their paper entitled "Diagnostic Spectrum Analysis in Ophthalmology: A Physical Perspective." The biography of Dr. Feleppa and his co-authors is given below.
E r n e s t J. F e l e p p a
Institute in New York City. Subsequently, he led project groups in programs related to biological aspects of environmental quality, and marine-resource management. For the past eleven years, his primary research interest has been ultrasound applied to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. His recent research activities have included studies of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound in the eye and other superficial organs; ultrasonic tissue characterization of liver and other internal organs; effects of ultrasound on biological systems at the cellular level; and the theoretical bases of scattering and tissue characterization. He has authored numerous papers on medical applications of ultrasound, and with Dr. Lizzi, has co-authored book chapters on the physics of medical ultrasound and modern methods of ultrasonic tissue characterization. He is co-editor of a special edition of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine devoted to the latest technologies of ultra-
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Ernest J. Feleppa is the Assistant Manager of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Riverside Research Institute (RRI) in New York City. His academic training includes a B.A. in physics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Columbia University. His doctoral research investigated applications of holography and optical spatial filtering to biological and medical sciences. As a Research Fellow at Columbia University, his post-doctoral studies investigated fundamental biological controls related to differentiation and development of the organism as a whole. Upon joining the research staff at RRI in 1969, Dr. Feleppa applied coherent optics to studies of cell growth and cell identification. During this period, he also was a Visiting Investigator affiliated with the Medical Physics Department at the Sloan-Kettering 89
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sound in medicine. Dr. Feleppa holds a patent dealing with image enhancement and speckle reduction for images derived from coherent illumination, such as ultrasound or laser light. In addition, he has related research interests in hyperbaric medicine and physiology, and applications of ultrasonic tissue characterization in these areas. Dr. Feleppa is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society. Frederic L. Lizzi received a B.E.E. degree from Manhattan College in 1963 and an M.S. degree from Columbia University in 1965. IN 1971, he received an Eng.Sc.D. degree in bioengineering from Columbia University; his doctoral thesis was written on pulsed beam patterns of focused ultrasound. Dr. Lizzi is Research Director for Biomedical Engineering at Riverside Research Institute where, as principal investigator, he leads a number of research programs, supported by the National Institute of Health, dealing with ultrasonic imaging, tissue characterization, and therapeutic ultrasound. He has authored numerous papers dealing with physics, biophysics, and clinical applications of ultrasound. With Dr. Coleman, he has co-authored a textbook entitled Ultrasonography of the Eye and Orbit; he holds several patents dealing with medical ultrasound. He is an Adjunct Professor at Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Lizzi is a Fellow of the ALUM, and member of the IEEE, SIDUO, and AAAS. He is member of the WFUMB Safety Committee, co-editor of the special Bioeffects Edition of the IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics, and member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. He has been elected to the Board of Governors of the AlUM Bioeffects Committee. D. Jackson Coleman received the B.S. degree in biochemistry at Union College, New York, in 1956, and the M.D. degree at the University of Buffalo Medical School, Buffalo, New York, in 1960. He in-
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terned in New York City at Bellevue Hospital, Columbia Medical Division, and pursued graduate studies at George Washington University including electrical engineering. He served a residency in ophthalmology at the E.S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, in New York City. He is the John Milton McLean Professor at Cornell University Medical College, Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmologistin-Chief at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center. His current research is directed toward improved tissue diagnosis and characterization of ocular tumors and toward the therapeutic effects of ablation and hypertherrnic ultrasound. Dr. Coleman is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the AIUM. He has served as an officer of SIDUO and WFUMB and on the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ophthalmic Ultrasound and the New York State Ophthalmological Society. He is a member of the Vision Research Program Committee of the National Eye Institute. Mykola M. Yaremko is a Member of the Research Staff of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Riverside Research Institute. He received his B.E. in electrical engineering from Cooper Union and his M.S.E.E. from Stevens Institute of Technology where he currently is a doctoral candidate. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and DECUS. His engineering interests include multidimensional image and signal processing, medical ultrasound, systems software, high-speed digital hardware design, and diverse applications of personal computers. For the past ten years, Mr. Yaremko has been actively involved in all aspects of the engineering efforts of the biomedical research taking place at Riverside Research Institute. These engineering efforts particularly include tissue characterization of ocular and abdominal tissues. He has co-authored numerous papers and presented various conference reports on these topics.
0301-5629/88 $3.00 + .00 © 1988 Pergamon Journals Ltd.
Printed in the U.S.A,
OAward ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY CLINICAL PRIZE The Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Clinical Prize which is given to the authors of a clinical paper published in the preceding volume of the journal and judged by members of the Editorial Board to be the most innovative and of the highest scientific quality has been made to Ernest J. Feleppa, Frederic L. Lizzi, D. Jackson Coleman and Mykola M. Yaremko for their paper entitled "Diagnostic Spectrum Analysis in Ophthalmology: A Physical Perspective." The biography of Dr. Feleppa and his co-authors is given below.
E r n e s t J. F e l e p p a
Institute in New York City. Subsequently, he led project groups in programs related to biological aspects of environmental quality, and marine-resource management. For the past eleven years, his primary research interest has been ultrasound applied to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. His recent research activities have included studies of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound in the eye and other superficial organs; ultrasonic tissue characterization of liver and other internal organs; effects of ultrasound on biological systems at the cellular level; and the theoretical bases of scattering and tissue characterization. He has authored numerous papers on medical applications of ultrasound, and with Dr. Lizzi, has co-authored book chapters on the physics of medical ultrasound and modern methods of ultrasonic tissue characterization. He is co-editor of a special edition of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine devoted to the latest technologies of ultra-
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Ernest J. Feleppa is the Assistant Manager of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Riverside Research Institute (RRI) in New York City. His academic training includes a B.A. in physics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Columbia University. His doctoral research investigated applications of holography and optical spatial filtering to biological and medical sciences. As a Research Fellow at Columbia University, his post-doctoral studies investigated fundamental biological controls related to differentiation and development of the organism as a whole. Upon joining the research staff at RRI in 1969, Dr. Feleppa applied coherent optics to studies of cell growth and cell identification. During this period, he also was a Visiting Investigator affiliated with the Medical Physics Department at the Sloan-Kettering 89
90
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sound in medicine. Dr. Feleppa holds a patent dealing with image enhancement and speckle reduction for images derived from coherent illumination, such as ultrasound or laser light. In addition, he has related research interests in hyperbaric medicine and physiology, and applications of ultrasonic tissue characterization in these areas. Dr. Feleppa is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society. Frederic L. Lizzi received a B.E.E. degree from Manhattan College in 1963 and an M.S. degree from Columbia University in 1965. IN 1971, he received an Eng.Sc.D. degree in bioengineering from Columbia University; his doctoral thesis was written on pulsed beam patterns of focused ultrasound. Dr. Lizzi is Research Director for Biomedical Engineering at Riverside Research Institute where, as principal investigator, he leads a number of research programs, supported by the National Institute of Health, dealing with ultrasonic imaging, tissue characterization, and therapeutic ultrasound. He has authored numerous papers dealing with physics, biophysics, and clinical applications of ultrasound. With Dr. Coleman, he has co-authored a textbook entitled Ultrasonography of the Eye and Orbit; he holds several patents dealing with medical ultrasound. He is an Adjunct Professor at Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Lizzi is a Fellow of the ALUM, and member of the IEEE, SIDUO, and AAAS. He is member of the WFUMB Safety Committee, co-editor of the special Bioeffects Edition of the IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics, and member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. He has been elected to the Board of Governors of the AlUM Bioeffects Committee. D. Jackson Coleman received the B.S. degree in biochemistry at Union College, New York, in 1956, and the M.D. degree at the University of Buffalo Medical School, Buffalo, New York, in 1960. He in-
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terned in New York City at Bellevue Hospital, Columbia Medical Division, and pursued graduate studies at George Washington University including electrical engineering. He served a residency in ophthalmology at the E.S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, in New York City. He is the John Milton McLean Professor at Cornell University Medical College, Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmologistin-Chief at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center. His current research is directed toward improved tissue diagnosis and characterization of ocular tumors and toward the therapeutic effects of ablation and hypertherrnic ultrasound. Dr. Coleman is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the AIUM. He has served as an officer of SIDUO and WFUMB and on the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ophthalmic Ultrasound and the New York State Ophthalmological Society. He is a member of the Vision Research Program Committee of the National Eye Institute. Mykola M. Yaremko is a Member of the Research Staff of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Riverside Research Institute. He received his B.E. in electrical engineering from Cooper Union and his M.S.E.E. from Stevens Institute of Technology where he currently is a doctoral candidate. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and DECUS. His engineering interests include multidimensional image and signal processing, medical ultrasound, systems software, high-speed digital hardware design, and diverse applications of personal computers. For the past ten years, Mr. Yaremko has been actively involved in all aspects of the engineering efforts of the biomedical research taking place at Riverside Research Institute. These engineering efforts particularly include tissue characterization of ocular and abdominal tissues. He has co-authored numerous papers and presented various conference reports on these topics.