1. Optical NIR image processing and mathematical modeling of lung cancer and radiation injury. 2. Computational simulation of Microwave and nanogold-mediated photothermal ablation of liver tumors. 3. Design, modeling and synthesis of gold-based nanoparticles for imaging and photo-thermal ablation, and Multimodal optical-MRI contrast agent development. 4. Machine learning and deep learning methods for image processing. 5. Statistical analysis. 6. Lipid structures for drug delivery