Publications
"Biomechanically constrained groupwise ultrasound to CT registration in the lumbar spine",
Medical Image Analysis, In Press.
"Out-of-plane motion estimation based on a Rician-Inverse Gaussian model of RF ultrasound signals: speckle tracking without fully developed speckle",
Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Bellingham, WA, SPIE Press, 2012.
"Probabilistic registration of an unbiased statistical shape model to ultrasound images of the spine",
Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Bellingham, WA, SPIE Press, 2012.
"Single wall closed-form differential ultrasound calibration",
Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Bellingham, WA, SPIE Press, 2012.
"3D ocular ultrasound using gaze tracking on the contralateral eye: a feasibility study",
Medical Image Processing and Computer Aided Interventions (MICCAI), vol. 6891, Toronto, Ontario, LNCS, pp. 65-72, September, 2011.
"Atlas-augmented ultrasound guidance of lumbar epidural needle insertions",
Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) 43rd Annual Meeting, Henderson, NV, 2011.
"Computer-aided tissue characterization using ultrasound-induced thermal effects: analytical formulation and in vitro animal study",
Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Bellingham, WA, SPIE Press, 2011.
"Panorama ultrasound for guiding epidural anesthesia: a feasibility study",
Proc. International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), vol. 6689, Berlin, Germany, pp. 179-189, 2011.
"Signature-based algorithm for improved needle localization in ultrasound images: a feasibility study",
IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2011.
"2D/3D Registration of Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy: is image preprocessing useful?",
International Conference of Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, September 2010.
"Registration of a Statistical Shape Model of the Lumbar Spine to 3D Ultrasound Images",
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, September 2010.
"C-arm tracking by intensity-based registration of a fiducial",
Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions, Geneva, June 2010.
"Registration between ultrasound and fluoroscopy or CT in prostate brachytherapy",
Medical Physics, vol. 37, issue 6, pp. 2749-2760, June 2010.
"Intensity-based 3D registration of ultrasound and statistical atlas of human pelvis",
SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, pp. 76250O-1-10, February 2010.
"Localization of brachytherapy seeds in ultrasound by registration to fluoroscopy",
SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, pp. 762519-1-8, February 2010.
"Registration of ultrasound to CT angiography of kidneys: a porcine phantom study",
SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, pp. 762518-1-8, February 2010.
"Ultrasound-guided spine needle insertion",
SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, pp. 762538-1-8, February 2010.
"High-throughput detection of prostate cancer in histological sections using probabilistic pairwise Markov models",
Medical Image Analysis, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 617-629, August 2010.
"Tissue typing using ultrasound RF time series: Experiments with animal tissue samples",
Medical Physics, vol. 37, issue 8, pp. 4401-4413, Aug 2010.
"A validation framework for probabilistic maps using Heschl's gyrus as a model",
NeuroImage, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 532-544, April 2010.
"C-arm pose estimation in prostate brachytherapy by registration to ultrasound",
Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI, vol. LNCS 6363, pp. 311-318, 2010.
"Dual-source ultrasound identification of the lumbar epidural space allows real-time guidance of midline lumbar epidural needle insertion in a porcine model",
Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) 42nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2010.
"Estimation of optimal fiducial target registration error in the presence of heteroscedastic noise",
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 29, issue 3, pp. 708-723, 2010.
"Group-wise feature-based registration of CT and ultrasound images of spine",
SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, pp. 76250R-1-9, 2010.
"Registration of a Statistical Shape Model of the Lumbar Spine to 3D Ultrasound Images",
Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI, vol. LNCS 6362, pp. 68-75, 2010.
