The position is based at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles but involves occasional travel to NASA Ames Research Center in the Bay Area. A Ph.D. in Psychology, Visual Science, Computer Science or related field. Experience in visual psychophysics, computational modeling, and statistics. Familiarity with signal detection theory a plus.
Position is for two years.
The postdoctoral fellow will participate in a NIH sponsored project to develop models of visual detection and identification of targets embedded in complex backgrounds with a special emphasis on medical image backgrounds. The models are to be used to perform automated evaluation and optimization of image quality. This is a two year position renewable for a third year. A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Physics, Visual Science, Medical Physics, Psychology or related field. Experience in image processing and analysis, signal processing, visual perception and psychophysics, and statistics.