Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia, United States
Dr. Spyridon Bakas (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), with joint priamry appointments between the Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and the Dept. of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and a secondary affiliation with the Dept. of Bioengineering at the UPenn. His research interests focus on the development, application, and benchmarking of advanced computational algorithms in oncological imaging, with the intention of improving the assessment, quantification and diagnosis of cancer in the current clinical practice, and has so far worked on MR, contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), and digitized histopathology, imaging data. He is involved in radio-patho-genomic research, where correlations between quantitative imaging (both radiographic and histologic) features and genomic information lead to highly accurate imaging biomarkers enabling treatment selection models customized on an individual patient basis. Dr. Bakas has received grant funding from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Abramson Cancer Center, and the Translational Biomedical Imaging Center of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics of UPenn. He has co-authored >50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and >50 medical conference abstracts. He is a board member of the MICCAI Society's Special Interest Group on Biomedical Image Analysis Challenges (SIG-BIAC) (2020-2021), on the MICCAI Organizing Committee (2018, 2020-2021), and has served as the organizer and chair of numerous tutorials, workshops, and computational challenges at both technical and clinical scientific meetings, including the MICCAI, RSNA, and SNO meetings.