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Dr. Nasser Kashou is an Associate Professor and Medical Imaging Scientist. Nasser Kashou has provided strategic planning and leadership across multiple institutions by establishing and leading several research groups. He has mentored, supervised and led hundreds throughout his career. Although not typical of an engineer, he loves public speaking and giving presentations. His education and skills are cross discipline; spanning hardware, software, physiological and clinical aspects of research and development.
Specifically, Nasser Kashou has experience in medical imaging, image processing with focus primarily on neuroimaging, specifically in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Some of this has included functional NIRS (fNIRS), functional MRI (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and volumetric analysis. His minor areas of specialization have been vision science and neuroscience and understanding both brain function and dysfunction. Patient populations of interest include those with mild traumatic brain injury, infantile nystagmus syndrome, convergence insufficiency, and other neurological diseases.
Dr. Nasser Kashou has founded and directed the following research labs across different institutions: Image Analysis Lab (IAL), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) Lab and the Neuroimaging Research Lab. Dr. Nasser Kashou is versatile scientist with a unique expertise in that he is well versed in electrical and computer engineering as well as biomedical engineering. He is a scientist that understands and teaches the physics, math, programming, image registration, processing, hardware as well as physiology involved in neuroimaging (and imaging in general). He has developed and taught the following courses: MRI in Medicine, Medical Image Processing, Computation using MATLAB, and Medical Imaging Modalities.
Nasser Kashou has been awarded the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Outstanding Contributions in the Society’s area of Education. He has also been the recipient of the International Student Advocate Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award and the prestigious Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics Young Investigator Award for his holistic therapy brain research. His skills are interdisciplinary and comprehensive. Nasser Kashou has published three book chapters on fMRI and fNIRS.