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Alexander Wong

ResearcherSystems Design Engineering - University of WaterlooUniversity of Waterloo

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Alexander Wong

Researcher

Systems Design Engineering - University of Waterloo

Engineering

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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32 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 16 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 15 research grants (12 NSERC, 3 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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108

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394

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Research

medical imaging integrated imaging systems cardiovascular imaging artificial intelligence cancer imaging magnetic resonance imaging

Latest papers

Improvements in Image Registration, Segmentation, and Artifact Removal in ThermOcular Imaging System.
Journal of imaging · 2025
The Efficacy of Semantics-Preserving Transformations in Self-Supervised Learning for Medical Ultrasound.
Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Non-contact, non-visual, multi-person hallway gait monitoring.
Scientific reports · 2025

All 108 publications

Latest funding

Evidence Synthesis to Inform Dietary Assessment Technologies to Characterize Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$15,000
CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections (STBBI) Clinical Trials Research (CTN)
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$25,000,000
Non-contact, high-resolution optical approach to assessing retinal neurovascular coupling in the healthy and glaucomatous retina
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$715,275

All 35 grants and awards

108 publications.

Improvements in Image Registration, Segmentation, and Artifact Removal in ThermOcular Imaging System.

Shahsavari N, Zare Bidaki E, Wong A, Murphy PJ

Journal of imaging2025

DOI: 10.3390/jimaging11050131 PMID: 40422988

The Efficacy of Semantics-Preserving Transformations in Self-Supervised Learning for Medical Ultrasound.

VanBerlo B, Hoey J, Wong A, Arntfield R

Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2025

DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering12080855 PMID: 40868368

Non-contact, non-visual, multi-person hallway gait monitoring.

Abedi H, Ansariyan A, Hedge ET, Mastrandrea CJ, Morita PP, Boger J, Wong A, Hughson RL, Shaker G

Scientific reports2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-97757-y PMID: 40851093

Combined optical coherence tomography and electroretinography system for imaging neurovascular coupling in the human retina.

Dhaliwal K, Wong A, Wright T, Bizheva K

Neurophotonics2025

DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.12.3.035004 PMID: 40786701

Automatic Radar-Based Step Length Measurement in the Home for Older Adults Living with Frailty

Siva P, Wong A, Hewston P, Ioannidis G, Adachi J, Rabinovich A, Lee AW, Papaioannou A

Sensors202410 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/s24041056 PMID: W4391576879

A survey of the impact of self-supervised pretraining for diagnostic tasks in medical X-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound.

VanBerlo B, Hoey J, Wong A

BMC medical imaging2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12880-024-01253-0 PMID: 38580932

COVID-Net L2C-ULTRA: An Explainable Linear-Convex Ultrasound Augmentation Learning Framework to Improve COVID-19 Assessment and Monitoring.

Zeng EZ, Ebadi A, Florea A, Wong A

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/s24051664 PMID: 38475199

Computational approach for correcting defocus and suppressing speckle noise in line-field optical coherence tomography images.

Abbasi N, Chen K, Wong A, Bizheva K

Biomedical optics express2024

DOI: 10.1364/boe.530569 PMID: 39296416

In vivo, contactless, cellular resolution imaging of the human cornea with Powell lens based line field OCT.

Chen K, Abbasi N, Wong A, Bizheva K

Scientific reports2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-73402-y PMID: 39343797

Optimized Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging for Improving Breast Cancer Tumor Delineation.

Tai CA, Wong A

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/s24248173 PMID: 39771908

Evidence Synthesis to Inform Dietary Assessment Technologies to Characterize Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Kirkpatrick, Sharon; Lamarche, Benoît; Murphy, Rachel

Keywords: Additives; Dietary Assessment; Evidence Synthesis; Food Composition; Mechanisms; Participant Engagement; Ultraprocessed Foods

$15,000

CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections (STBBI) Clinical Trials Research (CTN)

Principal investigatorCIHR2024HIV/AIDS & STBBI Clinical Trials Research Network - Phase 1

Principal investigators: Klein, Marina B; Habanyama, Muluba; Mandarino, Enrico; Martin, Carrie; Angel, Jonathan B; Anis, Aslam H; Brophy, Jason C; Burchell, Ann N; Coffin, Carla S; Costiniuk, Cecilia T; Daley, Peter; Durand, Madeleine; Fontaine, Guillaume; Golchi, Shirin; Grennan, Jonathan (Troy); Hart, Trevor A; Hull, Mark W; Keynan, Yoav; King, Elizabeth M; Kronfli, Nadine; Law, John Lok Man; Lebouché, Bertrand; Logie, Carmen; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence C; McGuinty, Michaeline; Murray, Melanie C; Shaw, Souradet Y; Smyth, Daniel J; Spence, Cara J; Tan, Darrell H; Walmsley, Sharon L; Wong, Alexander C; Worthington, Catherine A; Zhabokritsky, Alice

Keywords: Clinical Trials; Community Engaged; Cure; Hepatitis B And C; Hiv/Aids; Network; Prevention; Sexually Transmitted And Blood Borne Infections; Syphilis; Treatment

$25,000,000

Non-contact, high-resolution optical approach to assessing retinal neurovascular coupling in the healthy and glaucomatous retina

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bizheva, Kostadinka K; Hudson, Christopher

Keywords: Human Retina; Neurovascular Coupling In The Human Retina; Ophthalmic Imaging; Optical Coherence Tomography; Retinal Blood Flow; Retinal Diseases; Retinal Function

$715,275

After the Cure: Measuring the full impacts of direct acting antivirals for people living with HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfection in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Klein, Marina B

Keywords: Access To Care; Co-Infection; Cure; Direct Acting Antivirals; Fibrosis Progression; Health Outcomes; Hepatitis C Virus; Hiv; Prospective Cohort Study; Re-Infection

$100,000

After the Cure: Measuring the full impacts of direct-acting antivirals for people living with HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfection in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Klein, Marina B

Keywords: Access To Care; Co-Infection; Cure; Direct Acting Antivirals; Fibrosis Progression; Health Outcomes; Hepatitis C Virus; Hiv; Prospective Cohort Study; Re-Infection

$1,587,376

Automated full-game ice hockey analytics

Co-investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Clausi, David DA

Keywords: action recognition; deep learning; event detection; ice hockey; machine learning; pose estimation; predictive models; sports analytics; tracking; video analytics

$180,000

External visual observers for understanding manufacturing operations & predicting faults

Co-investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Zelek, John S

Keywords: action recognition; anomalies; artificial intelligence; computer vision; manufacturing; motion understanding; object recognition; quality control; time series; video processing

$50,000

Optical system for in-vivo imaging and label-free identification of stem cells in the human corneo-scleral limbus for treatment of corneal blindness

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bizheva, Kostadinka K; Jones, Lyndon William J

Keywords: Cellular Resolution Imaging; Human Limbus; Human Peripheral Cornea; In-Vivo, Non-Contact Imaging; Limbal Stem Cell Dysfunction; Ophthalmic Imaging; Optical Coherence Tomography

$592,876

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Visual Relation Detection

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Fieguth, Paul PW

Keywords: Computer vision; Deep learning; Machine learning; Object segmentation; Video analysis; Visual relations

$303,338

Equipment for measurement of gas exchange dynamics

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Hughson, Richard

$73,119

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Alexander Wong

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Improvements in Image Registration, Segmentation, and Artifact Removal in ThermOcular Imaging System.

The Efficacy of Semantics-Preserving Transformations in Self-Supervised Learning for Medical Ultrasound.

Non-contact, non-visual, multi-person hallway gait monitoring.

Combined optical coherence tomography and electroretinography system for imaging neurovascular coupling in the human retina.

Automatic Radar-Based Step Length Measurement in the Home for Older Adults Living with Frailty

A survey of the impact of self-supervised pretraining for diagnostic tasks in medical X-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound.

COVID-Net L2C-ULTRA: An Explainable Linear-Convex Ultrasound Augmentation Learning Framework to Improve COVID-19 Assessment and Monitoring.

Computational approach for correcting defocus and suppressing speckle noise in line-field optical coherence tomography images.

In vivo, contactless, cellular resolution imaging of the human cornea with Powell lens based line field OCT.

Optimized Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging for Improving Breast Cancer Tumor Delineation.

Evidence Synthesis to Inform Dietary Assessment Technologies to Characterize Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Canada

CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections (STBBI) Clinical Trials Research (CTN)

Non-contact, high-resolution optical approach to assessing retinal neurovascular coupling in the healthy and glaucomatous retina

After the Cure: Measuring the full impacts of direct acting antivirals for people living with HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfection in Canada

After the Cure: Measuring the full impacts of direct-acting antivirals for people living with HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfection in Canada

Automated full-game ice hockey analytics

External visual observers for understanding manufacturing operations & predicting faults

Optical system for in-vivo imaging and label-free identification of stem cells in the human corneo-scleral limbus for treatment of corneal blindness

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Visual Relation Detection

Equipment for measurement of gas exchange dynamics

Frequent collaborators

Kostadinka Bizheva

Paul Fieguth

Farzad Khalvati

Ali Sabri

Andrew Cameron

Jennifer Boger

David Clausi

Maud Gorbet

George Shaker

Mahla Poudineh

John McPhee

Wayne Parker

Naveen Chandrashekar

Bryan Tripp

David Alain Koff

Sandeep Kohli

Heather Keller

Robert Fowler

Julia Uhanova

Tom Schweizer

George Ioannidis

Laura Rosella

Maged Goubran

Asaf Gilboa

Nathan Churchill

Alnoor Ramji

Ivy Cheng