William (Sandy) Wells, PhD

Professor Wells' research focus is in medical image analysis with the Surgical Planning Laboratory, a unit of the MRI division of the Radiology Department of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Sandy maintains an active collaboration with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he has worked with a talented group of graduate students. Professor Wells is also affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and periodically teach the medical image processing part of  HST882 / 6.555: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing .

Professor Wells' work has focused primarily on the analysis of structural and functional MRI, including segmentation and registration of MRI, with some emphasis on applications in image-guided surgery. The figure on the upper right illustrates the white matter surface of a brain that was segmented from MRI using Adaptive Segmentation of MRI (the "EM Segmenter")