My Research in the MIDAG Group

In 2002, I joined the Medical Image Display & Analysis Group, MIDAG for short, working for Dr. Stephen M. Pizer. During my time in the group, I have worked on a number research fronts, mostly appearance models and deformable model segmentation, but also validation and medical image simulation. Update coming soon. See the MIDAG bibliography for a complete account of the work that I have been a part of to varying degree.

First author papers:

Bladder surface colored according to the position of neighboring regions seen across images. Dissertation (2008): Clustering and Shifting of Regional Appearance for Deformable Model Segmentation.
Kidney surface colored according to intensity profile type. ISBI '04: Clustering on Image Boundary Regions for Deformable Model Segmentation.
Bladder contour colored according to intensity distribution type. ISBI '07: Clustering on Local Appearance for Deformable Model Segmentation.
Showing local regions used in appearance training. IPMI '07: Regional Appearance in Deformable Model Segmentation.


Other research: (updates soon)

Comparing two prostate surfaces. Compare-byu: a tool for computing volume overlap and surface distance metrics between two surfaces provided as byu object files.
Diffusion Trajectories Symmetric distance between surfaces: the common closest point distance measure from surface A to B is not the same as that of B to A. I studied diffusion techniques in 3D towards computing a symmetric distance function.
Prostate slice viewed axially in an image of distance to bone. Distance quantile functions on bone: we study the pattern of distance from organ to bone to improve prostate segmentation.