Professor Hamid Dehghani

Professor Hamid Dehghani

School of Computer Science
Professor of Medical Imaging

Contact details

Address
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Hamid Dehghani is the Professor of Medical Imaging, developing advanced computational models, image reconstruction algorithms, and non-invasive techniques for disease diagnosis, notably in breast cancer and brain function, and has authored NIRFAST—an open-source software for diffuse optical tomography research.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Sheffield Hallam University, 1999
  • MSc in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Sheffield (1995)
  • MIPEM (member of Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
  • Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA)

Biography

Professor Hamid Dehghani is Professor of Medical Imaging at the School of Computer Science. He is part of the Centre for Human Brain Health as well as the Healthcare Technologies Institute (HTI). He has made world-leading contributions in Biophotonics, as used for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. His research focuses on biomedical imaging and in particular in the development of novel non-invasive techniques for imaging biological tissue for disease detection and characterisation. My work specifically involves Biomedical Optics, Computational modelling of light propagation in tissue, Image reconstruction and Image processing, Physiological Measurements using non-invasive techniques and mechanical properties and modelling of tissue deformation. He has published widely on Diffuse Optical Imaging and has over 25 years of experience in the field. He has contributed significantly to the development and application of Diffuse Optical Imaging devices and computational analysis and is author of the NIRFAST package.

Teaching

  • Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence 1
  • Computational Vision and Imaging