Dr. Michael D. NoseworthyPhD, P.Eng. · Professor, McMaster University

About

Imaging how tissue is built — and how it works

Dr. Michael Noseworthy is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University and Director of Imaging Physics and Engineering at the Imaging Research Centre (IRC) of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and at the Centre for Integrated and Advanced Medical Imaging (CIAMI). He is also Associate Chair (Research) in the Department of Medical Imaging and holds Special Professional Staff appointments in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

His research assesses normal and diseased tissue microstructure and how changes in that structure affect tissue metabolism. His group builds new MRI hardware, imaging pulse sequences and signal- and image-processing software, and applies them to physiological questions and disease. More recently the work has expanded to multimodal approaches that combine MRI with EEG, EMG and ultrasound, along with complex-systems mathematics and machine learning for image analysis.

He trained at the University of Guelph (BSc, MSc, PhD), held a postdoctoral fellowship in imaging physics at Sunnybrook (University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics), and was a Scientist and MRI Physicist at The Hospital for Sick Children and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto before joining St. Joseph’s and McMaster in 2003. From 2010 to 2020 he served as Co-Director of the McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering.