JohnM.BrambleMD

Summary

• I am a Board certified diagnostic radiologist. I originally worked in a small military hospital in 1982. I worked as an orthopedic radiology specialist at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1985 to 1990. I then moved to work in community hospitals as a general radiologist.
  
  In my undergraduate years at the University of Kansas, I began as a psychology major. However, the only course that really interested me was a neuroscience course. There I learned about the associative memory properties of holography (Gabor, Boehm). I changed to pre med because of my interest in science (and wish to be in a helping profession). I worked with a pharmacology professor who used cell cultures to investigate the effects of smoking. I programmed a probit analysis for the lab.
  
  In medical school, I completed a project using ANOVA on dietary data in patients with Chron's disease. Unfortunately, the analysis did not support the hypothesis that dietary fat intake was a significant factor in stool output.
  
  While in residency, I programmed an early personal computer to do CT reconstruction from raw data, and with simulation, demonstrated a technique to reduce metal artifact.
  
  While in academics, I used my knowledge and experience calculating a hologram of an image for research on data compression and artificial intelligence. I had programmed a computer generated hologram as an undergraduate because I was interested in understanding the associative memory properties of a hologram (the relationship to AI). Working with the Fast Fourier Transform for calculation of a hologram was useful knowledge for researching image compression.
  
  I left academics because I was told that AI research wouldn't pay the bills, so do it on my own time. I needed help understanding the partial differentiation formulation of back projection for training neural networks. The math PhD and electrical engineering PhD were told not to waste time helping me program back projection in a neural network.