1. Several training fellowships available
Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability
Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food & Drug Administration
Visualization and Displays for Color Medical Imaging. Qualifications: Engineering, physics, computer science, or optics, and interest/knowledge in hardware and software programming. Experience in spectroscopy desirable.
Deep Learning and Compact Feature Representations for Medical Image Analysis. Qualifications: Computer science or electrical engineering or machine learning, strong Python programming skills. Background in deep learning and convolutional neural nets is desirable.
Reader Studies. Qualifications: Statistics, applied mathematics, or related fields with relevant experience. Experience with statistical methods in diagnostic medicine and computer programming (R, C, or Matlab) desirable. Experience with adaptive trial designs is a plus.
Objective Quality Metrics for Assessment of Effect of Lossy Compression in Digital Mammography. Qualifications: Electrical engineering or biomedical engineering, strong programming skills, familiarity with existing physical or computational breast phantoms and image quality assessment using objective metrics are desirable.
Virtual Imaging Clinical Studies. Qualifications: Physics, engineering, computer science, image analysis, and interests in computer modeling and simulation. Experience running and analyzing (in silico or human) studies including reader modeling desirable.
Computational Lesion Insertion and Computer-Aided Diagnosis. Qualifications: Image analysis, imaging physics, computer science. Experience in pattern recognition, statistical model development, and computer simulation methods desirable.
Quantitative Imaging Tools. Qualifications: Physics, image/signal processing, mathematics, and biomedical/electrical engineering. Experience in statistics, CT imaging and coding desirable (C/C++/Matlab/R).
Imaging Biology With Coherent X-ray Scattering. Qualifications: bioimaging, bioengineering, physics, biophysics, physics. Experience in biomolecular and structural characterization methods desirable.
Paid summer internships are available for most of the projects!
The candidates will join a medical imaging research group with a regulatory focus. DIDSR laboratories are located in the White Oak campus in metropolitan DC with multiple opportunities for training within and outside the FDA laboratories. All positions are for 1 year subject to renewal depending on funding and performance. Interested candidates should send an to
To-Oanh Pham with resume/CV and the name and contact information of three references. Please use the words “DIDSR fellowships” in the subject field.