Dr. Roger Tam


Director, Engineers in Scrubs Program

Department of Radiology, School of Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Tam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at UBC and a member of the MS/MRI Research Group in the Division of Neurology. He also has membership in the Biomedical Engineering Program in the Faculty of Applied Science and the Bioinformatics Program in the Faculty of Science

Dr. Tam’s research interests are centered on the application of computer vision and machine learning methods to the quantitative analysis of heterogeneous health data, with a special focus on medical images. The projects in the Tam laboratory include those related to imaging biomarkers, computational shape modelling and morphometrics, and personalized medicine. The clinical areas studied include neurodegenerative disorders, atrial fibrillation and stroke, aging and cognition, chronic lung disease, and pediatric sepsis.


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