Professor of Computational Vision & Machine Intelligence
University of Jordan
Amman, Jordan
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Omar Al-Kadi is a Professor of Computational Vision & AI at the University of Jordan. His research focuses on computational imaging and clinical data mining for automated disease detection. He conducted research at Yale, Oxford, Surrey, and EPFL.
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Omar is a Professor in Computational Vision and Machine Intelligence at the University of Jordan and previously a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Radiology and Bioimaging Department at Yale University. He is interested in computational imaging and clinical data mining techniques for automated detection and diagnosis of disease. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) and at the Biomedical Imaging group within the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK). He was also a visiting professor at the Medical Image Processing lab at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Computer Science Department at University of Marburg (Marburg,Germany).
I develop novel approaches in computer vision, image processing, and analysis, including texture analysis, classification, and segmentation, with a focus on AI in medicine. I aim to advance early disease diagnosis and improve health outcomes.