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Shishir Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. He joined the department in 2005 and founded the Quantitative Imaging Laboratory. His current research interests are in the areas of computer vision, biomedical image analysis, learning paradigms for object tracking and recognition, and data mining. An integral component of these independent but complementary studies involve the fundamental understanding of imaging, instrumentation, image acquisition, the use of geometric and statistical techniques for the analysis of various tasks in image analysis.
His early research has focused more in the area of statistical modeling and learning mechanisms for recognition of objects in cluttered and occluded natural scenes. Various issues related to detection and recognition of objects in dynamically varying environments were addressed. Statistical approaches were developed for image segmentation and object recognition, specifically for the problem of Automatic Target Recognition. He has also developed novel algorithms for experimental design and data analysis as applied to microarray applications. This work has resulted in several publication, patents, and a book dedicated to microarray image analysis.
Current research efforts, directed through the Quantitative Imaging Laboratory, are in basic and applied research in image processing, computer vision, imaging instrumentation, and pattern recognition. The laboratory is housed with an automated microscope for brightfield, fluorescence, and multispectral imaging. An automated slide scanning system has also been prototyped and is being refined further. With the established facilities, research projects in the areas of multispectral imaging for chemical profiling, object tracking and recognition in distributed camera environments, and learning paradigms for performance prediction, have been initiated. Active collaborations with UTMB and Methodist Hospital have been established that have benefited from the established facilities and resulted in new research efforts in areas of cancer and haematology. New initiatives in collaboration with Drs. Garbey, Kakadiaris, Zheng, and Gabriel have resulted in research projects in the area of computational biology and distributed motion analysis.
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