Medical Image Processing Internship: Algorithm Development for Analysis and Visualization

Team Description: Kitware's Medical Computing team solves complex healthcare challenges through customized software solutions. The team provides research, development, and technology integration services to research centers, universities, and companies in the medical and biomedical sectors. By joining our team you will participate in a dynamic multidisciplinary work environment with exceptionally talented computer scientists, software engineers, mechanical engineers, and biomedical engineers. 
About the Projects: We build powerful software solutions using our well-established open source platforms including VTK, ITK, 3D Slicer, Pulse, CMake, and ParaView. These platforms are mature, supported, documented, and thoroughly tested software systems that are in use by tens of thousands of developers and end-users worldwide. Our commercial projects involve generating solutions for medical device companies from ultrasound and preclinical imaging companies, to surgery device companies. Our research projects involve collaborations with top research institutions, including Harvard Medical School, MIT, Cleveland Clinic, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and others, and build on our open source platforms.
About the Internship:The planned duration of this full-time internship is 6 months, starting on or before January 2025.
Interns who join our team will collaborate with world-class coworkers and external researchers in the following ways: - Develop and refine algorithms for medical image analysis, including techniques for feature extraction, object detection, and classification- Develop predictive models for the analysis of longitudinal multimodal medical data using advanced techniques- Implement and fine-tune machine learning or deep learning models to analyze medical images, ensuring proper evaluation and validation of model performance- Deploy software applications and infrastructure that are used by people, every day, around the globe, to improve the world- Interns will be encouraged to publish the results of their work in academic papers submitted to premier conferences or journals- Interns will also be able to produce high-quality software for challenging image analysis problems and contribute to large-scale software infrastructure and open source projects

Required Qualifications:

• Enrolled in a Master’s or Ph.D. program in computer science or a related field with the corresponding emphasis on scientific computing, medical imaging, computer vision, and/or machine learning
• Proficiency in C/C++ or Python
• Experience in designing deep learning models for image understanding problems such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation
• Familiarity with high-quality software processes, such as unit and integration testing, revision control (Git), documentation, software review, and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD)

Company Description:Kitware is a research and development software solutions provider with a mission to advance science, make a positive impact, and share our results all within a collaborative, employee-focused work environment that is friendly, fair, and flexible. Our work is improving healthcare outcomes, increasing national security, and advancing our national computing infrastructure. Our customers and collaborators include top universities from around the world, government organizations, national research labs, medical device manufacturers, car manufacturers, financial institutions, and many others.  
Kitware is proud to be 100% employee-owned, and Great Place to Work-Certified™.  
Additional Information:Kitware actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, protected veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. 
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