Garrett Fullerton

Student NameGarrett Fullerton

Faculty Mentor NameRuogu Fang

CollegeHerbert Wertheim College of Engineering

MajorBiomedical Engineering

MinorPhysics

Research InterestsMachine learning, biomedical informatics, data science, image denoising

Academic AwardsOrange County Chamber of Commerce Student of Achievement and Renown (SOAR) Award 2017.
Florida DOE Benacquisto Scholarship 2018.
National Merit Scholar 2018.
Florida Academic Scholars Award 2018.
College of Engineering Dean’s List 2018-2019.
University Scholars Program 2020.

OrganizationsOSTEM (Out in STEM), Pride in Engineering, University Research Scholars Program, First-year Engineering Peer Advising, Biomedical Engineering Society

Hobbies and InterestsPlaying piano and guitar, cooking, baking, exercising, reading True Crime stories, gardening, and going to Universal

Research Project

Toward a Generalized Framework for Low-Dose CT Noise Simulation and Denoising?

The goal of this project is to develop a deep learning (using CycleGAN) algorithm that can 1) accurately simulate the image noise present in low-dose CT images and 2) remove low-dose image noise to simulate the quality of a high-dose image given an initial low-dose input. Once implemented, this will increase the safety and quality of low-dose brain CT scans by reducing the patient’s exposure to ionizing radiation.