Brent Recieved a PhD in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina and his reserach interests are in medical image analysis, machine learning, and computer vision. He enjoys teaching courses in comptuer graphics and visualization, algorithms and data structures, and signal and imagning processing. Brent has been a reviewer for several journals such as IEEE Transactions on image Processing, IEEE transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, Computertized Medical Imaging and Graphics, and Pattern Recognition Letters. When Brent is not teaching, or doing research, he enjoys spending tie with his wife and two daugthers, Abbylee and Madelyn June.