CS’ Ayushi Sinha has been awarded a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Of 60 applicants from various divisions at Johns Hopkins, only seven candidates were selected to receive the fellowship. Sinha is one of two students selected from the Whiting School of Engineering and the first Department of Computer Science awardee. According to the Office of the Provost, these fellowships seek to locate, promote, and nurture the work of outstanding early career postdoctoral scholars at the Johns Hopkins University.
Sinha’s research interests lie specifically in the segmentation and statistical analysis of anatomical structures and using them to provide context cues during minimally invasive medical interventions.
Ayushi Sinha
“Ayushi’s deformable registration work will enable ‘quantitative endoscopy’ applications permitting analysis of the patient’s sinuses without CT images by producing labeled models of observed structures, together with probabilistic estimates of anatomic features that cannot be seen directly in the video,” said Sinha’s primary advisor Russell Taylor, John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science.
Currently, Sinha is working to improve statistical models of structures in the paranasal sinuses and nasal airway. Using this statistical information, she aims to improve video-CT registration to enhance endoscopic navigation during sinus surgery, as well as other minimally invasive surgeries through the nasal cavity and sinuses, in the absence of CT images.
“One of my goals is to work with students who will continue work in this area, teach them how to use and further improve the deformable registration framework we built, and explore different applications to further improve computer assisted interventions,” said Sinha.
Sinha will start her fellowship this summer. Learn more about her research here.