Ronald Pickett
Bio:
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Ronald Pickett is a cognitive psychologist with extensive experience in research on the visual analysis of complex optical images. He has conducted basic and applied research on visual texture perception and has worked for many years on the evaluation and enhancement of visual image analysis, principally in areas of image-based medical diagnosis. Dr. Pickett is the co-author of a leading text on methods for the evaluation of diagnostic systems. He is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and has been working closely for several years with colleagues in the Computer Science Department to bring his knowledge of visual perception and image processing to bear on the doevelopment of systems for the visualization of scientific data. He is a founding member of the University’s Institute for Visualization and Perception Research.