Congratulations to Abdulhakim Elbita
The staff and students of the CVC would like to congratulate Abdulhakim Elbita, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 20th March 2014.
The thesis was supervised by Prof. Rami Qahwaji, Dr. Stan Ipson and Mr. Faruque Ghanchi who is a consultant opthalmologist at Bradford Teaching Hospitals. The work is entitled "Efficient Processing of Corneal Confocal Microscopy Images" and looks at the image processing pipeline from corneal confocal microscopy scans. It includes improvments in the state-of-the-art for image enhancement, alignment, ordering, classification and segmentation.
The examiners of the thesis were Dr. Waleed Al-Nuaimy, from the School of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool, and Prof. Raed A Abd-Alhameed, from EECS in the University of Bradford, with independent chair Dr. Mumtaz Kamala, also from EECS in the University of Bradford.
We wish Abdulhakim all the best for the future.