National Chung Cheng University

Integral Lab of Intelligent Optomechatronics Components

Hsiang-Chen Wang
https://www.intelligentoptomechatronicslab.com/

Research Field

Medical Engineering

Introduction

Professor Hsiang-Chen Wang is currently a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Institute of Opto-Mechatronics Engineering, National Chung Cheng University (CCU). At the same time, he serves as  the director of the Innovation Incubation Center at CCU; He is also an adjunct professor at the Department of Post Baccalaureate Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University.

Most of the computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) models developed in the recent years use only RGB images which has only three different color bands. One of the advanced non-invasive techniques used in clinical research is hyperspectral imaging (HSI), which captures data across hundreds of narrow, contiguous bands, each representing a distinct portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. This allows for detailed analysis of tissue characteristics, making HSI a powerful tool in medical diagnostics. This project will utilize various machine learning models, including YOLOv5, YOLOv8, R-CNN, Faster R-CNN etc, to detect and CNN, SVM and Random forest etc for multiple biomedical applications. It will make use of two models of the white-light images (WLI) model and the hyperspectral narrowband images (HSI-NBI) model. These models will be generated through a conversion algorithm referred to as the spectrum-aided vision enhancer (SAVE). The main goal will be to discover early stage bio-markers for effective prognosis. The evaluation of model performance will be conducted using the created confusion matrix and five important indicators: precision, recall, F1-score, mAP, and the confusion matrix of the trained model.


Research Topics

Design of computer-aided diagnosis combined with Hyperspectral Imaging for bio-medical applications


Honor

Professor Wang currently has published more than 80 papers in international journals and owns 25 domestic and foreign patents. He was rewarded with the life time achievement award by the 2017 IIP (International Inventor Prize) committee.


Educational Background

Professor Hsiang-Chen Wang received his Ph.D. degree from Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University.