Darrin Edwards

Graduate Student

Entered program: 1995

Hometown: Hammonton, NJ

Email: d-edwards[at]uchicago.edu

Personal Homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~dcedward

Advisor: Robert Nishikawa, Ph.D.

I graduated from Harvard University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in physics. I entered the medical physics program here at the University of Chicago under the advisorship of Dr. Robert Nishikawa. My research is focused on detecting microcalcifications in mammograms using computer-aided diagnosis schemes, but I am interested in a wide variety of decision/detection problems, such as estimating ideal-observer decision functions. I hail from Hammonton, NJ, USA, which claims to be the "blueberry capital of the world".

Selected Publications

• D.C. Edwards, M.A. Kupinski, R.M. Nishikawa, and C.E. Metz, "Estimation of linear observer templates in the presence of multi-peaked Gaussian noise through 2AFC experiments", in Medical Imaging 2000: Image Perception and Performance, E.A. Krupinski, ed., Proc SPIE 3981, 2000.