Maryellen Giger Medical Physics has been named the A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Radiology and the College.
Giger conducts research on computer-aided diagnosis, including computer vision, machine learning and deep learning, in the areas of breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, lupus and bone diseases. She is now using these image-based phenotypes, “virtual biopsies” in imaging genomics association studies for discovery. She has now extended her AI in medical imaging research to include the analysis of COVID-19 on CT and chest radiographs, and is principal investigator on the NIBIB-funded Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center.
She is a cofounder, equity holder and scientific advisor of Quantitative Insights, Inc., which started through the New Venture Challenge at the University of Chicago. QI produces QuantX, the first FDA-cleared, machine-learning-driven system to aid in cancer diagnosis.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was awarded the William D. Coolidge Gold Medal from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the highest award given by the AAPM. In 2013, Giger was named by the International Congress on Medical Physics as one of the 50 medical physicists with the most impact on the field in the last 50 years. She has served as president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and as president of the International Society of Optics and Photonics and was the inaugural editor-in-chief of the SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging.