Ilona Kowalik-Urbaniak

Gastroenterology
Ontario Cancer Institute and Campbell Family Institute for Cancer Research
Canada

Biography

Ilona Kowalik-Urbaniak has completed her PhD in 2015 at the University of Waterloo in Applied Mathematics. Currently, she holds a Postdoctoral research position (TalentEdge Postdoctoral Fellowship) at Client Outlook Inc., Waterloo, Ontario. Her work is mainly focused in the area of quality assessment of compressed medical images and the effects of image compression on diagnosis. Her PhD dissertation dealt with mathematical modeling of subjective radiologists’ responses using objective image quality assessment methods. She has been awarded for her work on medical image quality at conferences on several occasions. Ilona Kowalik-Urbaniak has completed her PhD in 2015 at the University of Waterloo in Applied Mathematics. Currently, she holds a Postdoctoral research position (TalentEdge Postdoctoral Fellowship) at Client Outlook Inc., Waterloo, Ontario. Her work is mainly focused in the area of quality assessment of compressed medical images and the effects of image compression on diagnosis. Her PhD dissertation dealt with mathematical modeling of subjective radiologists’ responses using objective image quality assessment methods. She has been awarded for her work on medical image quality at conferences on several occasions.

Research Intrest

Gastroenterology