Andrew Willis, Ph.D.

CBES Area of Interest:

Dr. Willis’ Charlotte Machine Vision Laboratory conducts research that seeks to create new ways to treat traumatic bone fractures, especially those that occur in the vicinity of bone joints where osteoarthritis can develop. Supported by National Institute of Health, lab researchers create software and algorithms that facilitate the semi-authomatic reconstruction of these bone fractures within a virtual 3D environment. Such software may be used by doctors to perform pre-operative surgical planning. Additionally, the software enables heretofore unavailable methods of quantifying the severity of a given fracture case which is an important aspect for proper treatment which can be difficult to measure.

CBES Area of Expertise:

Medical image processing; 3D imaging; segmentation of structures within medical images.