Zhihong Hu, PhD

Zhihong Hu, PhD, is a scientist/senior research engineer at the Doheny Eye Institute (DEI) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the supervisor of the Doheny Image Analysis Laboratory (DIAL). Dr. Hu obtained her PhD from the University of Iowa (UI), her master of science degree from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and her bachelor of science degree from Zhengzhou University (ZZU) in China. Dr. Hu’s overall research interests are in the fields of medical image processing, computer vision, machine learning, video surveillance, and lasers. Her latest research interest focuses on ophthalmic image processing and analysis, including image segmentation and registration specifically in graph-based image segmentation; supervised pixel classification; deep learning, multi-object, multi-modality image segmentation; and classification and image registration in 3D optical coherence tomography (OCT) and various 2D ophthalmic images.