Robert Lufkin MD

The ‘Pocket Atlas of Head and Neck MRI Anatomy’ by Robert Lufkin MD is based on the popular UCLA visiting fellowship that Dr Lufkin ran for several years. Visitors came from all over the world to learn the basics of MRI as well as its practical clinical applications in the head and neck and other areas from Dr Lufkin and his team. Dr Lufkin is internationally recognized for his expertise in MRI and Head and Neck. He has hundreds of publications on basics of MRI as well as its clinical applications in the head, neck and brain. He also was elected and served as President of the international Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging as well as the American Society of Head and Neck Imaging. In addition to running the MRI visiting fellowship, continuing with cutting edge MRI clinical research, and seeing patients, Dr Lufkin is also speaks all over the world on various topics related to MRI. Dr Lufkin also served as Chief of Head and Neck Radiology at UCLA School of Medicine for two decades....

Robert Lufkin  has had an enduring interest in artificial intelligence. From his days in high school, Robert developed rule based computer programming that would generate music in a certain style as specified by the code. He supplemented this knowledge by attending classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] on the weekends. During that time he also helped in the laboratories of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel at Harvard University who studied the  mammalian visual system . They later received the Nobel Prize for their revolutionary work describing the neurophysiology of the visual cortex. Their initial results showed both the transformations that occur from one level of processing to the next and how a sequence of these transformations might lead to at least the elements of pattern perception. Their experiments immediately provided a structure for conceptualizing how cortical neurons could be organized to produce perception. This work would foreshadow the...