TITLE: Signals, Images, and MD's, Oh my! Or How an Engineer Learned to Quit Worrying and Get Along in a Medical School

SPEAKER: Professor Pete Santago,

TIME: Thursday Aug. 25, 2005 at 3:45 PM^*

PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)

Being somewhat of a generalist, Pete Santago has continued to learn less and less about more and more. In the limit, of course, he will know nothing about everything. Having approached that point, but not quite there yet, Pete will discuss three of the journeys that has taken him, for better or worse, to his current activities. His journey through computer science, digital systems design, image processing, and pattern recognition, has led him to a number of biomedical collaborations that, hopefully, have benefited from his expertise. These collaborations, in some form or another, include computerized tomographic colonography (aka virtual colonoscopy), characterization of aging muscle tissue using ultrasound, and computational drug discovery. On the way to his present work, he has shifted from his conviction that the best solutions depend upon mathematical rigor and formal description to the realization that there is plenty of room for ad hoc reasoning and human interaction. For those interested in the history and current status of the Virginia Tech -- Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Dr. Santago will, briefly or otherwise, cover this journey from Matlab, LaTex, and labs to Excel, Word, and conference rooms.

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