{"id":24257,"date":"2025-05-01T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=24257"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:24:24","slug":"bioengineering-master-thesis-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/bioengineering-master-thesis-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineering Master thesis Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong>Thesis Defense Announcement<\/strong><br \/><strong>Joseph Marino, M.S. in Bioengineering<\/strong><br \/><strong>Friday, May 2, 2025 | 12:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM | SLC Room 224<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wilkes University\u2019s Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering proudly announces the master\u2019s thesis defense of Joseph Marino, a candidate for the Master of Science in Bioengineering. His thesis, titled <em>\u201cAutomated Segmentation and Classification of Breast Ultrasound Images,\u201d<\/em> presents an advanced deep learning approach to improving the diagnostic process for breast cancer. The study integrates U-Net architectures and VGG16 with Random Forest classifiers to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of ultrasound image analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This work represents a significant contribution at the intersection of biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, with implications for more precise and accessible cancer diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Thesis Committee Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Dr. Abas Sabouni<\/strong>, Wilkes University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Dr. Asif Khan<\/strong>, Wilkes University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Dr. Pegah Khosravi<\/strong>, New York City College of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis Defense AnnouncementJoseph Marino, M.S. in BioengineeringFriday, May 2, 2025 | 12:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM | SLC Room 224 Wilkes University\u2019s Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering proudly announces the master\u2019s thesis defense of Joseph Marino, a candidate for the Master of Science in Bioengineering. His thesis, titled \u201cAutomated Segmentation and Classification of Breast&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/bioengineering-master-thesis-defense\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bioengineering Master thesis Defense<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24276,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions\/24276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}