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Biomedical Informatics Research

Current Participants and Collaborators

  1. Brian A. Canada, PhD Candidate, IBIOS Program
  2. Keith C. Cheng, Faculty Member, Department of Pathology
  3. Georgia K. Thomas, PhD Candidate, Department of Pathology
  4. James Z. Wang, Faculty Member, College of IST

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Related Publications

  1. Brian A. Canada, Georgia K. Thomas, Keith C. Cheng, James Z. Wang and Yanxi Liu, ``Automatic Lattice Detection in Near-Regular Histology Array Images,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. ?, pp. -, San Diego, California, IEEE, October 2008. (download) (g-scholar)

  2. Brian A. Canada, Georgia K. Thomas, Keith C. Cheng, James Z. Wang and Yanxi Liu, ``Towards Efficient Automated Characterization of Irregular Histology Images via Transformation to Frieze-Like Patterns,'' Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, pp. 581-590, Niagara Falls, Canada, July 2008. (download) (g-scholar)

  3. Brian A. Canada, Georgia K. Thomas, Keith C. Cheng, and James Z. Wang, ``Automated Segmentation and Classification of Zebrafish Histology Images for High-Throughput Phenotyping,'' Proceedings of the Third IEEE-NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, pp. 245-248, Bethesda, MD, November 2007. (download) (g-scholar)

  4. Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li and James Z. Wang, ``A Computationally Efficient Approach to the Estimation of Two- and Three-dimensional Hidden Markov Models,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1871-1886, 2006. [Abstracts were published in Proc. ICIP, 2004, 2005] (download) (g-scholar)

  5. Brian A. Canada, Keith C. Cheng, and James Z. Wang, ``QCHARM: A Novel Computational and Scientific Visualization Framework for Facilitating Discovery and Improving Diagnostic Reliability in Medicine,'' Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, pp. 870, Washington, D.C., November 2006. (download) (g-scholar)

  6. Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li and James Z. Wang, ``A Stochastic Modeling Approach to 3-D Image Modeling,'' Proceedings of the IEEE/NLM Life Science Systems and Application Workshop, pp. 120-121, IEEE, Bethesda, MD, July 2006. (download) (g-scholar)

  7. Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li and James Z. Wang, ``Parameter Estimation of Multi-Dimensional Hidden Markov Models - A Scalable Approach,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genova, Italy, vol. 3, pp. 149-152, IEEE, September 2005. (download) (g-scholar)

  8. Jia Li, Dhiraj Joshi and James Z. Wang, ``Stochastic Modeling of Volume Images with a 3-D Hidden Markov Model,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2359-2362, IEEE, Singapore, October 2004. (download) (g-scholar)

  9. Ya Zhang, Hongyuan Zha, James Z. Wang and Chao-Hsien Chu, ``Gene Co-regulation vs. Co-expression,'' Poster Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), pp. 232-233, San Diego, CA, March 2004. (download) (g-scholar)

  10. Ya Zhang, Hongyuan Zha, James Z. Wang and Chao-Hsien Chu, ``Clustering of Time-Course Gene Expression Data,'' Poster Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), pp. 240-241, San Diego, CA, March 2004. (download) (g-scholar)

  11. Eldar Giladi, Michael G. Walker, James Z. Wang and Wayne Volkmuth, ``SST: An Algorithm for Finding Near-Exact Sequence Matches in Time Proportional to the Logarithm of the Database Size,'' Bioinformatics, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 873-879, 2002. [An abstract was published in RECOMB 2000] (download) (g-scholar)

  12. Ya Zhang and James Z. Wang, ``Progressive Display of Very High Resolution Images Using Wavelets,'' Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Symposium, vol. 2002 symposium suppl., pp. 944-948, San Antonio, TX, November 2002. [Selected to present at the plenary session at the AMIA Annual Symposium and nominated for the Best Paper Award] (download) (g-scholar)

  13. James Z. Wang, ``Wavelets and Imaging Informatics,'' Journal of Biomedical Informatics, (formerly Computers and Biomedical Research), vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 129-141, 2001. (download) (g-scholar)

Past Projects

Virtual Microscope

This system provides progressive zooming of virtually any resolution images using wavelets (1997- ).

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TID

Trusted Image Dissemination

Our approach provides a content-based filtering of images. Potential applications include the protection of patient privacy in medical databases.

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