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Visual Computing Research Seminar

The seminar is open to anyone interested in medical imaging, image processing, computer vision, content-based multimedia retrieval, and visualizations.  For more information, contact Daniela Raicu at draicu@cs.depaul.edu.  If you would like to present your own research or work in progress, please send a title, an abstract and any other supporting documents including a proposed date to Daniela Raicu.

Fall 2008-2009 Schedule (every other Friday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, room 610):  

Date: October 3rd, 2008
Paper
: C.R. Shyu, C. Pavlopoulou, A.C. Kak, C.E. Brodley, and L.S. Broderick,
"Using Human Perceptual Categories for Content-Based Retrieval from a Medical Image Database"  in Computer Vision and Image Understanding 88, 119–151 (2002)
Presenter: Joseph Wantroba, Undergraduate student, CTI

Date: September 19th, 2008
Paper
: D. You, E. Apostolova, , D. Demner-Fushman, G.R. Thoma,
"Figure Content Analysis for Biomedical Article Retrieval"
Presenter: Emilia Apostolova, PhD student, CTI

 

Spring 2007-2008 Schedule (every other Friday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, room 610):  

Date: June 13th, 2008
Paper
: T. M. Mitchell, et al,
"Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns"  in Science Magazine, 2008
Presenter: Carl Phillips, Undergraduate student, CTI

Date: May 30th, 2008
Paper
: Y. Chen and R.S. Wang,
"Texture segmentation using independent component analysis of Gabor features"  in 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 2, August 2006, pp. 20–24.
Presenter: Dmitriy Zinovev, PhD student, CTI

Date: April 25th, 2008 (continue)
Paper
: M. Prasad, A. Sowmya, and P. Wilson,
"Multi-level classification of emphysema in HRCT lung images"  in Pattern Analysis & Applications, November 2007
Presenter: Ekarin Varutbangkul, PhD student, CTI

Date: April 11th, 2008
Paper
: M. Prasad, A. Sowmya, and P. Wilson,
"Multi-level classification of emphysema in HRCT lung images"  in Pattern Analysis & Applications, November 2007
Presenter: Ekarin Varutbangkul, PhD student, CTI

 

Winter 2007-2008 Schedule (every other Friday, 2:30pm-3:30pm, room 610):  

Date: February 22th, 2008
Paper
: Horwood, A, Hogan, SJ, Goddard, P and Rossiter, J, "Image normalization : a basic requirement for computer-based automatic diagnostic applications", Technical Report, Bristol University, UK, 2001
Presenter: Emilia Apostolova, PhD student, CTI

Date: February 8th, 2008
Paper
: Qiang Li, “Improvement of bias and generalizability for CAD schemes”, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 31 (2007) 338–345
Presenter: Vesna Mitrovic, PhD student, CTI

Date: January 25th, 2008
Paper
: Adrian S. Barb, Chi-Ren Shyu, and Yash P. Sethi, "Knowledge Representation and Sharing Using Visual Semantic Modeling for Diagnostic Medical Image Databases", IEEE Trans. on Info. Tech. in Biomedicine, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2005
Presenter: Pia Opulencia, Undergraduate student, CTI

 

Fall 2007-2008 Schedule (every other Friday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, room 610):  

Date: December 14th, 2007
Paper
: Kovalev, V.A.; Kruggel, F.; Gertz, H.-J.; von Cramon, D.Y., "Three-dimensional texture analysis of MRI brain datasets" Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on, 2001
Presenter: Carl Phillips, Undergraduate student, CTI

Date: December 7th, 2007 (continue)
Paper
: Tobias Heimann, Sascha Münzing, Hans-Peter Meinzer and Ivo Wolf, "A Shape-Guided Deformable Model with Evolutionary Algorithm Initialization for 3D Soft Tissue Segmentation" In Karssemeijer N, Lelieveldt B (eds). IPMI 2007, LNCS 4584. Berlin: Springer (2007) 1-12, July 2007
Presenter:
Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student, CTI

Date: November 30th, 2007
Paper
: Tobias Heimann, Sascha Münzing, Hans-Peter Meinzer and Ivo Wolf, "A Shape-Guided Deformable Model with Evolutionary Algorithm Initialization for 3D Soft Tissue Segmentation" In Karssemeijer N, Lelieveldt B (eds). IPMI 2007, LNCS 4584. Berlin: Springer (2007) 1-12, July 2007
Presenter:
Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student, CTI

Date: October 26th, 2007
Paper
: William Horsthemke, Ekarin Varutbangkul, Daniela Raicu, Jacob Furst, "Predictive Data Mining for Lung Nodule Interpretation", published in IEEE Data Mining in Medicine (DMMed’07), Omaha, Nebraska, October 28th, 2007 (ICDM, acceptance rate 25%)
Presenter: Ekarin Varutbangkul, PhD student, CTI

Date: October 12th, 2007 (continue paper presentation)
Paper
: D. Racoceanu, C. Lacoste, R.Teodorescu, and N. Vuillemenot, “A semantic fusion approach between medical images and reports using UMLS”, published in Proceedings of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, volume LNCS 4182, Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 60–475
Presenter: Ekarin Varutbangkul, PhD student, CTI

Date: September 18th, 2007
Paper
: D. Racoceanu, C. Lacoste, R.Teodorescu, and N. Vuillemenot, “A semantic fusion approach between medical images and reports using UMLS”, published in Proceedings of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, volume LNCS 4182, Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 60–475
Presenter: Ekarin Varutbangkul, PhD student, CTI

Date: September 14th, 2007
Paper
: James Hays and Alexei A. Efros, “Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs” published in the International Conference on Computer Graphics and interactive Techniques, 2007  (SIGGRAPH2007)
Presenter: Carl Phillips, Undergraduate student, CTI

 

Spring 2006-2007 Schedule (every other Friday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, room 610):  

Date: May 25th, 2007
Paper
: W. Horsthemke
and D. Raicu,"Towards Exploiting Variance in Radiologist-Defined Truth: Opportunities from the LIDC" published in DePaul CTI Research Symposium (CTIR), 2007
Presenter: Bill Horsthemke, PhD student, CTI

Date: May 11th, 2007
Paper
: Christine Golbreich
,"Combining content-based retrieval and description logics reasoning" published in the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM), 2007
Presenter: Ekarin Varutbangkul, PhD student, CTI

Date: April 13th, 2007
Paper
:
H. Park, P. H. Bland, and C. R. Meyer,"Construction of an Abdominal Probabilistic Atlas and its Application in Segmentation" published in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, VOL. 22, NO. 4, APRIL 2003.
Presenter: Dr. Jacob Furst, Associate Professor, CTI
 

Date: March 30th, 2007
Paper
: F. Ding, W. K. Leow, and S.C. Wang
,"Segmentation of 3D CT Volume Images Using a Single 2D Atlas" published in the Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2005
Presenter: Dr. Daniela Raicu, Associate Professor, CTI

 

Winter 2006-2007 Schedule (every other Friday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, room 610):  

Date: January 26th, 2007
Paper
:
K.A. Heller and Z. Ghahraman,"A Simple Bayesian Framework for Content-based Image Retrieval" published in the Proceeding of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Volume 2, pages: 2110 - 2117, 2006.
Presenter: Dr. Jacob Furst, Associate Professor, CTI

Date: January 12th, 2007
Paper
: M. Jeon, M. Alexander, W. Pedrycz, and N. Pizzi, "Unsupervised hierarchical image segmentation with level set and additive operator splitting",
Pattern Recognition Letters Volume: 26, Issue: 10, July 15, 2005
Presenter: Ruchaneewan Susomboon, PhD student, DePaul CTI

 

Fall 2006 Schedule (every other Friday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, room 436A):  

Date: November 10th, 2006
Paper
:
C. Bauckhage, T. Kaster and J. K. Tsotsos, "Applying Ensembles of Multilinear Classifiers in the Frequency Domain", Proceedings of CVPR 2006
Presenter: Dr. Jacob Furst, Associate Professor, CTI

Date: October 27th, 2006

Paper: "A Computer Vision Approach for Network Traffic Analysis and Anomaly Detection"

Presenter: Taghrid Samak, PhD student, DePaul CTI

 

Date: October  13th, 2006

CTI Biomedical Informatics Workshop

 

Date: May 18th, 2006, 6:00pm at Northwestern University, 676 North St. Clair, Suite 800, Chicago

Seminar in Translational Imaging Informatics: Accelerating the Algorithm to the Application

Presenters: David Channin, MD, & James C Carr, MD

 

Date: September 29th, 2006

Paper: E. Varutbangkul, J. G. Cisneros, D. S. Raicu, J. D. Furst, D. S. Channin, S. G. Armato III, "Semantics and Image Content Integration for Pulmonary Nodule Interpretation in Thoracic Computed Tomography", SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, February 2007.

Presenter: E. Varutbangkul, PhD student, DePaul CTI

 

Spring 2006 Schedule:  

Date: April 7th, 2006
Paper
: B. Malinga, "A comparison of RGB & HSV-histogram based color image retrieval" (work in progress)
Presenter: Bongani Malinga, Intelligent Multimedia Laboratory, DePaul CTI

Date: April 21st, 2006

Paper: X. Zhou et al., "Automated Recognition of Anatomical Structure from Torso CT Images", Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 27th Annual Conference

Presenter: Ruchaneewan Susomboon, Intelligent Multimedia Laboratory, DePaul CTI

 

Date: May 5th, 2006

Paper:

Presenter: Dr. Jacob Furst

 

Date: May 18th, 2006, 6:00pm at Northwestern University, 676 North St. Clair, Suite 800, Chicago

Seminar in Translational Imaging Informatics: Accelerating the Algorithm to the Application

Presenters: David Channin, MD, & James C Carr, MD

 

Date: June 2nd, 2006

Paper: M. Varma and A. Zisserman, "Texture Classification: Are Filter Banks Necessary?", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2003

Presenter: Dr. Daniela Raicu

 

Previous Visual Computing Events:

Date: May 6th, 2005
MedIX: Medical Informatics Workshop 2005

Date: May 21st, 2004 

Title: Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval

Presenter: Dr. Ishwar K. Sethi, Oakland University

 

Date: May 21st, 2004

Title: Statistics of the Geometry of Object Populations

Presenter: Dr. Stephen Pizer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Date: May 21st, 2004

Title: Generic Object Recognition and the Need for Image Abstraction

Presenter: Dr. Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto

 

Date: April 28th, 2004 

Title: ROC Curves for Classification Problems

Presenter: Lynette Lilly

 

Date: April 21st, 2004

Title: Texture Segmentation using Neural Networks

Presenter: Dr. Daniela Raicu


Date: April 14th, 2004

Title: Rotation-Invariant Texture Classification using modified Gabor Filters

Presenter: Dr. Steve Jost



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