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"Learning is not attained by chance, it
must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." -Abigail
Adams
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Current students
Undergraduates
Eugene Ioffe
Stephanie Valencia
Graduate Students
Bikash Bhattacharyya
Michael Doran
Bongani Malinga
Ruchaneewan Susomboon
Julie Zhang |
Past
Students
Undergraduates: Jennifer Chow, Gregory Smith, Arati Kurani, Stelu Aioanei, Dong-Hui Xu, Jong Lee, Mikhail Kalinin, Andrew Corboy, Lindsay Semler
Graduate students: Lynette Lilly, Chanokporn Limpsangsri, John Campion,
Ramzy Darwis,
Winnie Tsang, Charles Dowling, Gabriel Sanchez
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Stephanie Valencia
- I am an undergraduate student in my freshman year looking to major in
Digital Cinema with an animation concentration. My current research
involves looking for ways to better visualize clustering results
produced by other students. I hope that my research will reveal hidden
patterns in the clustering results that will help others to refine
clustering techniques in addition to perhaps providing a possible tool
for other researchers to use in presentation and research.
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Bikash Bhattacharyya
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I am a
graduate student working towards a PhD in Computer Science at DePaul
CTI. I am originally from India where I obtained a BS in Economics with
a minor in Statistics from Calcutta University. I earned a Masters in
Management from ICFAI University (India) and a Masters in Information
Systems from DePaul CTI, IL. My main areas of research interest are
machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, information retrieval,
and image processing. I am currently working with Dr. Raicu, Dr Furst
and Dr Settimi on problems related to Microarray data analysis.
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Ruchaneewan Susomboon - I am a
full-time PhD student in Computer Science since 2004. I joined the
Medical Image Processing in the end of March, 2005. My research
interests are Classification and Segmentation for human chest and
abdomen. I was born in Thailand where I received my bachelor degree of
Computer Science. Later, I came to United States to further my education
with a Master degree in Computer Science at DePaul University.
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 Michael
Doran - I am a part-time graduate student working towards a
Master of Science in Information Systems. To complement my study of
data mining and analysis I am working on a micro array analysis problem
applying these techniques to a data set for Argonne National
Laboratory. I received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from
Virginia Tech with a minor in Mathematics.
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 Bongani Malinga - I am a graduate
student in the Computer Science department
at DePaul University.
I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and my
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia
University. I have worked on missile designs, flight control systems,
electric-grid disturbance accommodation systems, engine control systems
and virtual sensors for mechanical systems.
My primary research interests are Artificial
Intelligence, Control Systems, Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining,
Machine Learning
and Intelligent Multimedia Processing which encompasses
image processing, computer vision and
pattern recognition.
As part of
the medical imaging research team, I am currently working on developing
quantitative measures for capturing the significant image features
(primarily texture, possibly Mutual Information (MI)) of different
organs and tissues in Computed Tomography images. These quantitative
measures are used further to automatically segment, classify and
retrieve organs or tissues of interest from CT images. This also enables
the determination of similarity metrics between images and allows for
the investigation of content-based image retrieval and clustering
techniques. My current project is the development and application of a
semi-automatic semantic clustering technique for CT image databases.
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Julie Zhang - I am a
part-time PhD student in Computer Science at DePaul University since
2003. I have finished all my qualification exams. I joined the Medical
Image Processing Research Group in 2005. My research interests are
medical image classifications and segmentations.
I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic
Engineering from Beijing Broadcasting Institute, China. And I received
my Master of Science degree in Technology Management from University of
Wisconsin-Stout. Previously, I worked in the financial industry as a
programmer for four years. Currently, I am a full-time faculty member in
the Computer and Information Science Department at East-West University,
Chicago.
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 Stelu
Aioanei
I am a junior
attending DePaul University, in Chicago, majoring in computer science.
Besides college, I also have the opportunity to do research here at
DePaul, which I have started last summer. My concentration in this
research is segmentation using active contours that would help identify
body organs from CT images.
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 Arati Kurani-
I am pursuing a degree in Computer Information Systems at DePaul
University, Chicago, IL. My research interests lie in the areas of
Biomedical Informatics, Computer Human Interaction, Database and
Information Retrieval Systems, and Graphics and Visualization.
As a CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project
Program award recipient in the summer of 2003, I was given the
opportunity this past summer to do research with Dr. Linda Shapiro in
the Computer Science department at the University of Washington. The
focus of my research was to enhance a program that had previously been
able to reconstruct blood vessel trees in the right lung using Visible
Human Data – highly detailed cross-sectional images of the human body.
Since arriving back from the University of
Washington, I have been continuing my research in Biomedical Informatics
at DePaul University as a member of the University’s Undergraduate
Research Assistantship Program. Specifically, my research focuses on the
classification of human body organ tissues using texture information,
obtained using texture-based techniques, in Computerized Tomography (CT)
images. The goal of this research is to aid radiologists in the early
detection of irregularities within the tissues of the human body (i.e.
tumors). This research is contributing to an ongoing project of the
Visual Computing Group at CTI and the Department of Radiology at
Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Dong-Hui Xu-
I am an undergraduate
student in my senior year at
DePaul University, Chicago, majoring in Computer Science. I am a
member of the Visual Computing Group at DePaul CTI and currently working
on problems in Medical Image Data Processing with
Dr. Raicu and
Dr. Furst. Software Engineering, Artificial intelligence and data
mining are also my interests. I have also spent some time tutoring at
DePaul CTI.
In my spare time, I
often entertain myself by cooking, reading, watching movies and chatting
with my friends. My favorite poet is
Rabindrinath Tagore.
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 John
Campion - I am currently pursing a Master's in Computer Science
at DePaul University. I received my Bachelor degree in biology from
Loyola University Chicago. My interests are in the areas of medical
imaging, statistical analysis, and computational biology. Prior to
entering graduate school, I carried out behavioral neuroscience research
at the University of Chicago's Clinical Neuroscience and
Psychopharmacology Research Unit. This ongoing research employs fMRI
techniques and the Analysis of Functional Neuro-Imaging (AFNI) software
to help identify areas of the brain responsible for intermittent
aggression.
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Ramzy
Darwish
I am pursuing a Masters degree in
Computer Graphics & Animation from DePaul University. My research
interests include 3D Visualization, Medical Imaging and
Efficient Software Implementations for Research Tools.
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 Bill Horsthemke
As a part-time PhD student, I study the application
of technology to transform data into usable information or knowledge.
The data arriving from instrumented sensors or the sampling of human
activities often needs aggregation or transformation to support the
needs of decision makers. As data passes through the information
processing pipeline, the application of various technologies can improve
the usefulness of that data for subsequent stages of analysis and
decision.
Often a metric can be
established for a decision, allowing an application to make a final
decision. But, if not possible, the analysis pipeline needs to
illustrate the problem and analysis in ways that support the human
making the final decision. Even when the metric allows for a decision,
the system needs to illustrate the rationale supporting that decision.
This leads to the study of quantitative methods,
image and signal processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence,
data mining, and computer graphics.
I develop various systems for my day job at
Argonne National Lab. These range from interactive 3D animations of
vehicle traffic to modeling and simulation of computer networks to data
acquisition and analysis.
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 Lynette Lilly
I am a graduate student at DePaul University majoring in
Computer Science. I am currently working with Dr. Daniela Raicu on Data
Mining for Customer Behavior Modeling. I have an M.Ed. in Educational
Psychology from UIUC. I am interested in data mining, artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction.
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Chanokporn Limpsangsri
I am a Computer Science graduate
student at DePaul University where I joined the Visual Computing
Research Group in the end of March, 2004. Prior to this, I worked
various positions in pharmaceutical industry-such as a clinical
pharmacist in hospitals, drugstores and also a medical specialist
focusing on sales and post-marketing phase III and phase IV drug
researches. I was born in Thailand where I earned my bachelor degree of
Pharmaceutical Science at Chulalongkorn University.
My research interests are
Content-Based Image Retrieval, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Design
and Analysis of Algorithms and Pharmaceutical Computing. My research
advisor is Dr. Daniela Raicu. Currently, I am working on an image
retrieval and annotation system for human organs tissues in CT images.
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