Research Projects

Current Selected Projects

1. 2001~present, "Creating a Statistical Atlas of Prostate Cancer for Guiding Prostate Biopsy", in University of Pennsylvania/Johns Hopkins University.



• Creating a statistical atlas of prostate cancer
• Segmentation of prostate from ultrasound image (May 2002)



2. 1999~present, "Brain mapping using deformable models", in University of Pennsylvania/Johns Hopkins University
• HAMMER in Brain Warping
• HAMMER forums, email list, and support pages hosted by NITRC (Nov 2007)
• 2006 Best Paper Award for HAMMER registration paper, from IEEE Signal Processing Society (Jan 2007)
• Click here to download HAMMER software (March 2005)
• Generalized HAMMER algorithm, for registration of other images such as CT pelvis images and MR whole-body mouse images (2004)
• 4D HAMMER, for accurately measuring longitudinal brain changes (March 2004)
• Label brain structures by HAMMER (March 2004)
• Average image of 20 cardiac individuals, normalized by HAMMER (August 2003)
• Average image of 158 individual subjects, normalized by HAMMER (May 2003)
• Fully automatic skull-stripping by HAMMER (May 2002)
• HAMMER for Warping DTI FA maps (Mar 2002)
• HAMMER for Head Warping and Skull Stripping (Nov 2001)
• Warping and registration of brain images by HAMMER (July 2001)


• Adaptive-Focus Deformable Model for medical image segmentation
• Demo on segmenting hippocampus (May 2001)
• Demo on segmenting the ventricles, the caudate nucleus, and lenticular nucleus
• Demo on segmenting spine
• Demo on segmenting femur bone