Fábio José Ayres, winner of the 2nd Prize Award

Awards

Awarded 2nd prize in the student paper competition at the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancún, Mexico.

Education

  • 2002 - present: Ph.D. student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Calgary.
  • 1999 - 2001: M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Thesis: "Segmentation and Estimation of the Histological Composition of the Tumor Mass in CT Images of Neuroblastoma" (in Portuguese). Obtained the highest grade of 'A' in all of the courses taken in the M.Sc. program.
  • 1994 - 1998: Electrical Engineering 1st Degree, Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Ranked 11th among 141 students in Electrical Engineering, and 36th among 556 students of all engineering programs.

Scholarships

  • July 1999 - July 2001: M.Sc. scholarship from FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Foundation for Research Support), São Paulo, Brazil.
  • January 1999 - June 1999: M.Sc. scholarship from CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Council of Scientific and Technological Development), Brazil.
  • January 1998 - December 1998: Undergraduate research scholarship from FAPESP.
  • January 1997 - December 1997: Undergraduate research scholarship from CNPq.

Publications

Journals

F. J. Ayres, M. K. Zuffo, R. M. Rangayyan, G. S. Boag, V. Odone Filho, M. Valente. "Estimation of the histological composition of the tumor mass in neuroblastoma using segmented CT images". Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing journal (Accepted for publication).
F. J. Ayres, R. M. Rangayyan. "Characterization of Architectural Distortion in Mammograms Using Orientation Fields". Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

Conference papers

F. J. Ayres, R. M. Rangayyan. "Iterative linear algorithm for the analysis of oriented patterns". IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2004, San Jose, CA. January 2004.
F. J. Ayres, R. M. Rangayyan. "Characterization of architectural distortion in mammograms". Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancún, Mexico, pp. 886 - 889. September 2003. Awarded 2nd prize in the student paper competition.
F. J. Ayres, M. K. Zuffo, R. M. Rangayyan, V. Odone Filho, and M. Valente. "Segmentation and estimation of the histological composition of the tumor mass in CT images of neuroblastoma", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul, Turkey, four pages on CD-ROM. October 2001.
R. B. V. Leitão, R. P. Fagundes, F. J. Ayres, E. T. Santos, M. K. Zuffo. "Um Algoritmo Rápido para Iluminação Volumétrica" (A Fast Algorithm for Volume Shading), Proceedings of the IX SIBGRAPI (Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing), Caxambú, Minas Gerais, Brazil, pp. 9 - 14. October 1996.
F. J. Ayres, M. K. Zuffo, "Um método de Determinação de Visibilidade para Visualização Volumétrica" (A Fast Method for Visibility Assessment in Volume Visualisation), Proceedings of VIII SIBGRAPI (Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing), pp. 299 - 300, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. October 1995.

Fábio José Ayres
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, T2N 1N4
ayres@enel.ucalgary.ca