ABOUT JERRY SEDGEWICK

Jerry Sedgewick is on a mission to educate users in correct methods for using Photoshop; for acquiring, archiving, and presenting visual data; and for teaching scientists & engineers how to use Photoshop for isolating features of interest when measuring (image analysis).

His desire to teach arises from experience and interaction with users of a core light microscopy/image analysis facility (the Biomedical Image Processing Lab: BIPL) at the University of Minnesota. He was the director of that facility for 15 years.

Over the years, Jerry has seen the mounting frustration first of all with the transition from film-based photography to digital, and now with several other phenomena: the intrinsic trust investigators and supervisors have to invest in graduate students/staff to "know" Photoshop or to learn it quickly and, as a result, inefficiency from having to re-acquire or modify the image dramatically; the increasing pressure for investigators to prepare manuscripts and grants with a knowledge of how to balance color and contrast for various presentation outputs; and a steady movement toward the requirement for publication-ready Acrobat or CMYK files without assistance from publishers (except insofar as images might be "ruined" when published).

Images CAN be acquired, balanced, archived, moved into other software programs correctly; and these can be printed to better match what is viewed on the computer screen. Jerry is out to show researchers, those in medicine, and those in engineering how to go about doing that, as well as how to use Photoshop for separating out features of interest for subsequent measurement.

You can also look at Jerry's CV to get an idea of publications and background:

CV for Jerry Sedgewick

OVERVIEW OF EXPERIENCE:

Provided scientific consulting services (quantitation) for 3 companies that consequently received FDA approval of medical products.

Directed the Biomedical Image Processing Lab in the Neuroscience Department at the University of Minnesota, a comprehensive light microscopy core facility for 15 years.

Custom built 2 multiphoton confocal systems: one using the Parker-Sanderson design and a resonant mirror for video rate capture, and the other an Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) system using the Olympus FV300 head and software.

Consulted and trained for both start up and large companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Medtronic, St. Jude's Medical, EcoLab and Boston Scientific.

Co-President of Quantum Catch, LLC, a company that is developing a low-cost fundus (ophthalmic) camera as the writer of automated pathology detection software.

Author of 2 books (Quick Photoshop for Research: A Guide to Digital Imaging and Scientific Imaging with Photoshop: Methods, Measurement and Output); numerous book chapters/articles, and co-author of several published manuscripts, including Science, Circulation and PNAS.

Worked for several years as a professional photographer, produced video and multi-media presentations, wrote scripts, designed web pages.

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