Emil Sidky

Emil Sidky

The University of Chicago, USA

Expertise: Tomographic image-reconstruction, X-ray CT, Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, Spectral CT, Model Observers, Large-scale optimization for imaging

Dr. Sidky is Research Professor in the Department of Radiology at The University of Chicago. He received his B.S. degree (1988) in Physics, Astronomy-Physics, and Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He went on to obtain his M.S (1991) and Ph.D (1993) in Physics from The University of Chicago. Dr. Sidky worked as a post-doctoral research assistant in Atomic Physics at the University of Copenhagen (1993-1996), University of Bielefeld (1996), and Kansas State University (1996-2001). In 2001, Dr. Sidky switched to medical imaging and joined the lab of our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Pan; most recently, he was promoted to Research Professor in 2018. Dr. Sidky has published approximately 100 papers, and about 70 of them are in medical imaging. His theoretical work has mainly focused on X-ray tomography with sparse or limited-angular range sampling. He has also applied advanced techniques for non-smooth or non-convex large-scale optimization applied to imaging. His application work has centered on tomographic breast imaging, CT and tomosynthesis, and developing image reconstruction algorithms and calibration techniques for spectral CT scanners based on photon-counting detectors.