Geoff Dougherty

Geoff Dougherty is a tenured professor at California State University, Channel Islands. He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in image processing and pattern recognition for more than 30 years. He pursues research in medical imaging, including work on bone quality markers for the onset of osteoporosis and tortuosity metrics for retinal blood vessels. He received a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholarship in 2009, and undertook research at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He was a Fulbright Specialist in Engineering Education from 2013 to 2018, and a Visiting Expert for The World Academy of Sciences in 2015.

The motivation for writing his first book, Digital Image Processing, was to produce a user-friendly book with practical applications and only the necessary mathematics. Just the sort of text he wished had been available to him thirty years ago. The book has been made available as a softback for the South Asia market, and has also been translated into Korean.

His second book, Medical Image Processing, is an authoritative resource and self-study guide explaining sophisticated techniques of quantitative image analysis for medical applications.

His third book, the widely anticipated Pattern Recognition and Classification: An Introduction, has already made an impact as a gentle, intuitive introduction to an oftentimes over-complicated field.