Dr. Sameer Antani, National Library of Medicine

"Topics in Next Generation Communications Engineering R&D"

Thursday, September 4, 4PM

Packard Lab Room 466

Reception prior to talk in Packard Lobby at 3:30 PM

The Communications Engineering Branch at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an R&D organization devoted to research and development directed toward mission-critical tasks in biomedical imaging, document delivery, digital preservation, next-generation interactive publications, biomedical informatics, and automated ways of building resources such as MEDLINEŽ. This talk will highlight various ongoing projects and activities in these research areas to illustrate the changing nature of communications engineering research. Topics include biomedical image analysis, interactive publications, image and text integration and recent research on Web 2.0 topics. The talk will also cover some recent contributions by graduate students of Lehigh University during their summer internships with us. 

 Bio:   Dr. Sameer Antani is a Staff Scientist with the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, an intramural R&D division of the National Library of Medicine, at the National Institutes of Health. He conducts research on various topics in content-based image retrieval, medical multimedia databases, next-generation interactive documents, and advanced multimodal medical document retrieval. He earned his Master of Engineering and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He earned his Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, India (Pune Institute of Computer Technology), in 1994. Dr. Antani is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.