Takeo Kanade
U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon Universitye
Member of US National Academy of Engineering

Abstract

Computer vision motion analysis has great opportunities to help with the rapid advancement of biological discovery and its transition into new clinical therapies. Tissue Engineering involves implanting scaffolds (biodegradable exracellular matrices) and seeding and culturing cells with hormones to induce growth of tissue for restoration. By analyzing a sequence of time-lapse images from phase-contrast or differential interference contrast microscopes that can capture living cells, we could precisely and individually track a large number of cells, while they undergo migration (translocation), mitosis (division), and apoptosis (death). The result is a complete cell lineage (mother-daughter relations) of the whole cell population. Such a capability of high-throughput spatio-temporal analysis of cell behaviors allows for “engineering individual cells” - directing the migration and proliferation of tissue cells in real time.

Based on the work in collaboration with biomedical engineer, this talk will present the challenges, results, and excitement of the new interdisciplinary research area of computer science and biology.

Biographical Information

Takeo Kanade is the U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and the director of Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of Digital Human Research Center in Tokyo, which he founded in 2001. He received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974. After holding a faculty position in the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1980, where he was the Director of the Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001.

Dr. Kanade works in multiple areas of robotics: computer vision, multi-media, manipulators, autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics and sensors. He has written more than 300 technical papers and reports in these areas, and holds more than 20 patents. He has been the principal investigator of more than a dozen major vision and robotics projects at Carnegie Mellon.

Dr. Kanade has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a Fellow of the IEEE; a Fellow of the ACM, a Founding Fellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The awards he has received include the Franklin Institute Bower Prize, Okawa Award, C&C Award, Joseph Engelberger Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award, and IEEE PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Accomplishment Award.