Trevor Nguyen
I am a student at the University of Maryland, University College. I am working on a servlet that fetches data from PubMed and returns the result to a PDA application. My task is to optimize the servlet for better response time. I'm fortunate to be working with Dr. Susan Hauser, Glenn Ford, and Dina Demner-Fushman. I have gained a better understanding of Java with their help. I have enjoyed my involvement with the research here.

Xiaoning Qian
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
He is interested in statistical analysis of medical images, specifically, his current research focuses on content-based similarity retrieval for medical images. He worked with Mr. Rodney Long and Dr. Sameer Antani this summer at CEB. He applied shape space theory to analyze different vertebral shapes extracted from NHANES II data set. A shape indexing tree was also developed for efficient content-based image retrieval on a spine X-ray image database.

Karen Steely
University of Maryland University College
Field: CMIS
I am a year-round student employee working towards a degree in computer management and information science at University of Maryland University College. My projects include building and maintaining this Web site and digital photography. I am gaining experience in databases and developing Web-based applications.

Tim Troy
University of Maryland - European Division
Field: Computer Information Science (CMIS)
I have a year round student position while completing my bachelor's degree this semester and then starting on my master's degree at George Mason University. I am working with Dr. Le on the WebMARS project, specifically on programming code for automated data extraction and validation from web pages. I hope to gain valuable experience as a member of a programming project and anticipate expanding and honing my programming skills. I look forward to the suggested possibility of having the entire WebMARS project ported over to .NET framework, as I feel that would be an interesting team endeavor and quite useful in terms of learning valuable skills.

Xiaoqian Xu
I am a first-year graduate student at Brigham Young University majoring in Electrical Engineering. I have a summer position this year at CEB of the National Library of Medicine. And I have been working on Partial Shape Matching (PSM) algorithm for vertebra shapes with Dr. Sameer Antani. We also develop GUI for using PSM algorithm based on the old CBIR system. So by adding PSM option, the new interface allows the user to query by complete shape as well as partial shape. I really enjoyed this summer. It has been such a great working experience and a fond memory as well.

Patrick Yaner
PhD Student, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
This summer I am a graduate intern at the NLM working with Sameer Antani on content-based image retrieval (CBIR) of scanned-in slides of lesions related to cervical cancer. I'm working on a MATLAB program that segments the images into the various regions, and might hopefully also label them using pattern classification and possibly machine learning techniques. I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, where I work in the Artificial Intelligence Lab studying, well, AI, cognitive science, and visual reasoning in humans and machines.

Kathy Hosseini
University of Maryland, University College
Field: Computer and Information Science
I am a senior student at University of Maryland and my major is Computer and Information Science. During my internship at CEB, I was involved in a number of R&D projects in image processing as applied to biomedical images and documents. I worked under Dr. Houser's supervision on WebMARS Label Browser. My role in this project was to support the research engineering staff to modify and maintain Visual C++ modules for systems for the automated extraction of bibliographic data from scanned document images as well as web-based documents. These systems are used to generate citations automatically from medical journals. I supported creation and maintenance of a ground truth database under Glenn Ford's supervision, containing bit-mapped images of medical journal articles, segmented regions and labeled zones that have been verified for accuracy. This publicly available online database serves the computer science community interested in developing advanced algorithms for page segmentation and zone labeling. I tested hundreds of records and used XML editing tools to ensure their accuracy before inclusion in the database. I was responsible for keeping track of routers, switches and other devices on the Branch's local area networks, as well as the wide area networks that the institution is part of.

Dina Demner-Fushman