Martel, Anne

Biography

Dr. Martel received a BSc in Physics from King’s College, University of London, UK in 1987 and a PhD in Medical Physics from University of Sheffield, UK in 1992. She spent 11 years as a Medical Physicist in the UK before moving to Canada in 2003. Dr Martel is currently a Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and an Associate Professor in the department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. She is the also co-founder of Pathcore and Chief Scientific Officer of Pathcore, a software company which specializes in building tools to analyze and manage digital slide images. Dr Martel is an active member of the medical image analysis community acting as Associate Editor on IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging since 2010 and serving on program committees for SPIE, MICCAI and ISBI conferences. Dr Martel was a general and scientific co-chair for MICCAI 2011 held in Toronto and was responsible for organizing the 2nd MICCAI international workshop on Breast Image Analysis in Nagoya, Japan in 2013. Her research is focused on medical image analysis, particularly on applications of Machine Learning for segmentation and classification. Research areas include digital histopathology, computer aided diagnosis and detection of breast cancer using MRI, and data driven analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced MR images using ICA. Dr. Martel received a BSc in Physics from King’s College, University of London, UK in 1987 and a PhD in Medical Physics from University of Sheffield, UK in 1992. She spent 11 years as a Medical Physicist in the UK before moving to Canada in 2003. Dr Martel is currently a Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and an Associate Professor in the department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. She is the also co-founder of Pathcore and Chief Scientific Officer of Pathcore, a software company which specializes in building tools to analyze and manage digital slide images. Dr Martel is an active member of the medical image analysis community acting as Associate Editor on IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging since 2010 and serving on program committees for SPIE, MICCAI and ISBI conferences. Dr Martel was a general and scientific co-chair for MICCAI 2011 held in Toronto and was responsible for organizing the 2nd MICCAI international workshop on Breast Image Analysis in Nagoya, Japan in 2013. Her research is focused on medical image analysis, particularly on applications of Machine Learning for segmentation and classification. Research areas include digital histopathology, computer aided diagnosis and detection of breast cancer using MRI, and data driven analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced MR images using ICA.

Research Interest

Main focus on development of machine learning techniques for segmentation and classification Active in breast cancer research with projects in breast cancer screening with MRI and digital pathology in the breast. Emphasis on translation with collaborative links to industry. Software developed using open source platforms and libraries including Python, R, ITK and openCV