Daekeun You
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo. This summer I am working with Dr. Sameer Antani on the image and text integration (ITI) project. My task for the project is localizing and recognizing commonly found symbols and text on figure images in articles. I am developing a new symbol recognition algorithm based on Markov Random Field (MRF). This development is the assigned task for the ITI project this summer and my dissertation research as well. My research interests are in pattern recognition, machine learning, image processing, and document image analysis.

Hongsheng Li
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University. My research interests include shape analysis, object tracking and image segmentation. I received my B. Eng. degree from East China University of Science and Technology. At NLM, as a summer intern, I am working with Sameer Antani and Rodney Long on the 3D Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) project.

Niyati Chhaya
I am a Masters student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. This summer, I am working with Dr. Glenn Pearson, Micheal Gill and Greg Miernicki on the Lost Person Finder project. My task is to design and develop a prototype for the handheld device compatible version of the LPF project. My research interests include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing. and Information Retrieval.

Ketaki Vaidya
I am working as a summer intern at NLM. I am doing my masters in computer science from University of Maryland Baltimore County. I am working with Glenn Ford on a project called Interactive Publications (IP). I think this is going to be a great opportunity of working with Professionals and learn new technologies.

Soumi Ray
I am a PhD student in the Computer Science department at University of Maryland Baltimore County. I will be working over the summer with Dr. Sameer Antani at the National Library of Medicine on feature selection for efficient content-based image retrieval for heterogeneous image collections. Our goal is to identify feature sets that distinguish between different medical image types using the imageCLEFmed 2008 database as a benchmark, and validating the performance of these feature sets on an independent collection of medical images.

Tanja Bekhuis
I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Dental Informatics, School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. This summer, I am participating in the NLM Rotation for Medical Informatics Trainees. My research focus is on systematic review methods and literature-based discovery. I came here to learn about machine learning methods with Dr. Dina Demner-Fushman. We are working on a project to automate the initial screening phase of systematic reviews.

Nicole Kato
I will be starting my third year at Swarthmore College as a double major in Engineering and Economics. I am hoping to continue my studies in biomedical engineering. I am currently working with Glen Pearson on editing the Nursing Home Screener website and Dr. Sameer Antani on digitally cataloging the CEB book collection.