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Peder C. Pedersen

Professor
Director, Denmark Project Center

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Office: Atwater Kent Laboratories, 205
Phone: +1-508-831-5641
Fax: +1-508-831-5491
pedersen@wpi.edu
pedersen@ece.wpi.edu

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Educational Background

B.S.E.E., Aalborg Engineering College - Denmark, 1971
M.E., Bioengineering, University of Utah, 1974
Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Utah, 1976

Research & Teaching Interests

Ultrasound in telemedicine, reconfigurable ultrasound systems, 3D imaging, ultrasound in pulmonary medicine, analytic modeling techniques for pulse echo ultrasound, development of injury-mimicking ultrasound phantoms, 3D ultrasound hardware and software and associated image enhancement techniques, and non-invasive methods for atherosclerotic plaque classification (“vulnerable” plaque).

IQP Advising Interests

Impact of new technologies in health care; economics of health care; conservation of open space planning; appropriate technology

Recent Publications

M. Rowan and P.C. Pedersen, “An Injury Mimicking Ultrasound Phantom as a Training Tool for Diagnosis of Internal Trauma,” 2006 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, Vancouver, Canada, Oct., 2006, pp. 1613 - 1617
R.J. Duckworth, P. Cordeiro and P.C. Pedersen, “Clinical evaluation of wearable ultrasound imaging system,” 2006 American Telemedicine Assoc., San Diego, CA, May, 2006.
P.C. Pedersen, P. Cordeiro, R.J. Duckworth and T.L. Szabo, “Development and testing of wireless wearable ultrasound scanner,” 2006 AIUM Annual Convention, Washington DC, March 23 – 26, 2006.
P.C. Pedersen, V. Mitra and J. Dey, “Boundary detection in 3D ultrasound reconstruction using nearest neighbor map,” Medical Imaging 2006: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. Edited by Emelianov, Stanislav; Walker, William F. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6147, San Diego, CA, Febr. 11 - 16, 2006, pp. 57-67, 2006
J. Dey, D.A. Tighe, G. Vijayaraghavan, V. Mitra and P.C. Pedersen, “Prior-shape based segmentation of various objects in ultrasound images after speckle-reduction using level-set-based curvature reduction,” Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing. Edited by Reinhardt, Joseph M.; Pluim, Josien P. W. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6144, San Diego, CA, Febr. 11 - 16, 2006, pp. 1515-1523, 2006.

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Honors & Awards

1998: Joseph S. Satin Distinguished Fellow in Electrical Engineering
2001 - 2003: WPI Teaching Technology Fellow
2004: WPI-IEEE Community Service Award

Years of Service at WPI

1987 - 1990: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
1990 - present: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professional Societies/Memberships

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society of IEEE
Acoustical Society of America
American Telemedicine Association
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

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