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2012 Seminar

20120211(Stanford, CA)

 CMOS Image Sensor in Medical Applications

Abstract: 

Image senor technologies such as charge-coupled devices (CCDs) image sensors have played a major role in digital medical imaging during past twenty years. With technological advancements such as backside illumination (BSI), CMOS image sensors began to take off in medical imaging applications. Novel CMOS-based image sensors offer enhanced image quality, low power consumption, improved system integration capability, and a small size. Because CMOS sensor devices are built using traditional CMOS semiconductor manufacturing processes, they have significantly reduced the cost of camera modules for medical imaging devices, which are the key component of endoscopes. Further advancement of the complementary system that supports the CMOS sensors, such as lens, image-signal processing, and display, enhanced camera performance, resulting in broader adoption of CMOS image sensors in a wide range of medical endoscopy applications. This presentation is to introduce novel CMOS image sensor technologies that enable disposable medical endoscopic devices in some areas.

 

 
Speaker Bio: 

James Lei, Ph.D. Director of Marketing, Medical, in Omnivision Technologies. He is leading and promoting CMOS image sensors to medical application worldwide in video medical devices, specialized in medical device market identification, definition, prototype, ramping up products. Prior to the current position, he was Vice President of Applied Harmonics Corp, a medical device company specializing laser surgical equipments, responsible for new business development, market expansion and fundraising. He has over 10 years medical device and semiconductor industrial management and R&D working experience in Altera, Synopsys, Texas Instrument, etc. Subcommittee Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). Ex-president of United Chinese Alumni Associations in America and Founding president of Xi'an Jiaotong University Alumni Association in Silicon Valley. Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, B.Sc and M.S. from Xi'an Jiaotong University.