Yan Zhou, a PhD student at the Computer Science Department of the University of Houston
received one of the best poster paper awards in this year's International Conference
on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009 (http://www.miccai2009.org/). MICCAI is the premium medical imaging conference. The acceptance rate for poster
papers was 27% this year. Yan's poster paper was in a competition with a total of
75 other entries. The paper's title is "Tissue Tracking in Thermo-physiological Imagery
through Spatio-temporal Smoothing" and is available for preview at the Computational
Physiology Lab's web site (http://cpl.uh.edu). Yan's PhD advisor is Prof. Pavlidis and her research is funded by his National
Science Foundation grant "Do Nintendo Surgeons Defy Stress?"