Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

I direct the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Laboratory. We develop algorithms to enhance the quality of medical imaging systems and to automatically detect, segment, and quantify anatomical/pathological structures seen on medical images. Along with my colleagues, we investigate how to improve early diagnostic methods and find new imaging biomarkers of neurodegenerative and ocular diseases in adults and children. Moreover, we explore the mathematical foundations of vision in brain.

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, Electrical Engineering, 2005

M.Sc., University of Tehran (Iran), Biomedical Engineering, 2001

B.S., Sharif University of Technology (Iran), Electrical Engineering, 1999

M.D. Robinson, C.A. Toth, J.Y. Lo, S. Farsiu, "Efficient Fourier-wavelet Super-resolution", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol 19, Issue 10, pp. pp. 2669 – 2681, October 2010.

S.J. Chiu, X.T. Li, P. Nicholas, C.A. Toth, J.A. Izatt, S. Farsiu. “Automatic Segmentation of Seven Retinal Layers in SDOCT Images Congruent with Expert Manual Segmentation.” Optics Express. Vol. 18, No. 18, pp. 19413-19428, August 2010.

R. Estrada, C. Tomasi, M. T. Cabrera, D.K. Wallace, S.F. Freedman, S. Farsiu. "Enhanced Video Indirect Ophthalmoscopy (VIO) via Robust Mosaicing.” BioMedical Optics Express, Vol. 2, Iss. 10, pp. 2871–2887, Oct. 2011.