Bonus LCSR Seminar: Chulhong Kim

Description

Chulhong Kim, a professor and chair in the School of Convergence Science and Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea, will give a talk titled "Multi-Modal Imaging: Photoacoustic, Ultrasound, Plus More HW/SW System, Clinical Translation, and Commercial Efforts" for the Laboratory for Computational Sensing + Robotics.

In addition to his academic appointments, Kim is the director of the Medical Device Innovation Center supported by the Korean Ministry of Education, the vice-director of POSTECH-CATHOLIC BioMed Engineering Institute, and CEO of Opticho Inc., a spinoff company to commercialize preclinical and clinical photoacoustic imaging systems. Learn more about the speaker.

Abstract:

Trans-energy imaging modalities have been significantly explored to overcome existing problems in conventional imaging modalities with respect to spatial/temporal resolutions, penetration depth, signal-to-noise ratio, contrast, and so on. Among them, photoacoustic imaging, an emerging hybrid modality that can provide strong endogenous and exogenous optical absorption contrasts with high ultrasonic spatial resolution, has overcome the fundamental depth limitation while keeping the spatial resolution. The image resolution, as well as the maximum imaging depth, is scalable with ultrasonic frequency within the reach of diffuse photons. In this presentation, the following topics will be discussed: (1) multiscale and multiparametric trans-energy imaging systems; (2) novel deep-learning powered image processing; (3) recent clinical study results in pathology, endocrinology, oncology, cardiology, dermatology, and radiology; (4) label-free ultrafast ultrasound Doppler imaging; and (5) efforts to commercialization.