curriculum vitae amir a. amini, ph.d. biographical data · curriculum vitae amir a. amini, ph.d....
TRANSCRIPT
CURRICULUM VITAE
Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.
Biographical Data
A. Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.
B. Endowed Chair in Bioimaging
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of Medical Imaging Laboratory (MIL)
The University of Louisville (August 1, 2006-)
C. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
J. B. Speed School of Engineering
Paul C. Lutz Hall, Room 409
The University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292
D. The University of Massachusetts, B.S., Electrical Engineering, May 1983
The University of Michigan, MSE, Electrical Engineering, Dec. 1984
The University of Michigan, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, February 1990
Yale University, Postdoctoral Research in Biomedical Imaging, Dec., 1990
E. Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, 1991-1992
Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, 1992-1996
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, 1994-1996
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, 1996-2000
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1996-2000
Associate Professor of Medicine (with tenure), Washington University in St. Louis, 2001-2006
Director, Cardiovascular Image Analysis Lab, 1996-2006
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Joint Appointment), Washington University in
St. Louis, July 1, 2001-July 31, 2006
Endowed Chair in Bioimaging, (full) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director
of Medical Imaging Lab (MIL), University of Louisville, KY, August 1, 2006-
Teaching
A. Classroom Instruction
University of Louisville, ECE 641: Medical Imaging Systems [newly developed] 3 credit hours,
Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011. Text: Macovski - Medical Imaging
Systems, Webb – Introduction to Biomedical Imaging, Bushberg - The Essential Physics of
Medical Imaging, Prince & Links – Medical Imaging Signals and Systems. This course has
been completed as independent study by 8 students in the past 2 years.
University of Louisville, ECE 618/635: Digital Image Processing, 4 credit hours, Fall 2008, Fall
2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015. Text: Gonzales and Woods – Digital
Image Processing
University of Louisville, ECE 520/521; Digital Signal Processing, 4 credit hours, Fall 2013, Fall
2014, Text: Proakis & Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing
University of Louisville, ECE 420; Linear Signals and Systems, 3 credit hours, Spring 2014, Fall
2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015. Text: Oppenheim, Willsky, and Nawab, Signals and Systems,
Spring 2015
Instructor’s Overall Rating: ECE 618 – Fall 2008: 4.6/5.0, Fall 2009: 4.33/5.0, Fall 2010: 4.67/5.0,
Fall 2011: 5.0/5.0, Spring 2013: 5.0/5.0,
Spring 2015: 3.75/5.0, Fall 2017: 4.83/5.0
ECE 641 – Spring 2008: not reported, Spring 2009: 4.4/5.0,
Spring 2010: 4.27/5.0, Spring 2011: 5.0/5.0
ECE 520 – Fall 2013: 4.04/5.0, Fall 2014: 4.94/5.0
ECE 420 – Spring 2014: 3.82/5.0, Spring 2015: 4.29/5.0,
Spring 2016: 3.7/5.0, Fall 2016:4.14/5.0, Spring 2017:
4.26/5.0, Fall 2017: 4.09/5.0, Spring 2018: 4.3/5.0
Washington University BME 590B: Medical Computer Vision [newly developed], 3 credit hours
Yale University: Image Processing; 3 credit hours, Fall semesters, Computer Vision; 3 credit hours,
Spring semesters: 1992-1996. [team taught]
University of Michigan Dept. of Mathematics: Calculus I: Fall 1983
B. Research Supervision
1. Doctoral Students
Andreas Klein, May 1996, Thesis title: Implementation and Validation of a Quantitative Coronary
Angiography System. Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of
Medicine
Jiantao Huang, September 2000, Thesis title: Analysis of Multidimensional Tagged MR Cardiac
Images with Deformable Models. Current Position: Software Development Engineer, Philips GmbH,
San Francisco, Bay area
Yasheng Chen, October 2002, Thesis title: Markov Random Fields on the B-Spline Solid for the
Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images, Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Washington
University School of Medicine
Nicholas Tustison, July 2004, Thesis title: Biventricular Myocardial Strains with Anatomical
NURBS Models from Tagged MRI, Current Position: Research Associate Professor, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville
Mohammadreza Negahdar, June 2012, Thesis title: 3-D Lung Deformation and Function from
Respiratory-Gated 4-D X-ray CT Images: Application to Radiation Treatment Planning, Current
Position: scientist for the Medical Sieve Radiology Grand Challenge in IBM, Almaden Research
Center, San Jose, CA.
Iman Khodarahmi, June 2012, Thesis title: Flow and Pressure Measurement Using Phase-Contrast
MRI: Experiments in Phantom Models, Current Position: Instructor, Department of Radiology, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hui Wang, December 2012, Thesis title: MR Imaging of Left-Ventricular Function: Novel Image
Acquisition and Analysis Techniques, Current position: MR Clinical Scientist, Philips Medical
Systems, Cleveland, Ohio
Vahid Tavakoli-Ataebadi, April 2013, Thesis topic: Quantitative Assessment of Regional Cardiac
Function with Ultrasound Echocardiography: Novel Speckle Tracking Algorithms, Current position:
Cardiology Fellow, University of Kansas Medical Center
Mo Kadbi: Thesis Topic: 4D Ultra-Short TE (UTE) Phase-Contrast MRI for Assessing Stenotic Flow
and Hemodynamics. Graduation date: December 2013, Current position: Clinical Scientist for MR
Therapy, Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio
MJ Negahdar: Thesis Topic: 4D Reduced-TE (RTE) Spiral Phase-Contrast MRI for Rapid
Quantification and Visualization of Blood Flow and Hemodynamics. Graduation date: April 2014,
Current Position: Director of MRI Research, University of Louisville Department of Radiology,
Louisville, KY
Jung Won Cha: Thesis topic: Segmentation, Tracking, and Kinematics of Lung Parenchyma and
Lung Tumors from 4D CT with Application to Radiation Treatment Planning. Graduation date: April
2018, Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroimaging, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland, OH.
Mehdi Farhangi: Thesis topic: CAD system for screening lung CT, Expected graduation date: Spring
2019
Sean Callahan: Thesis topic: 4D Flow MRI, Expected graduation date: Spring 2020
Ruponti Nath, CSF Flow Dynamics from MRI, Expected graduation date: Spring 2020
Ben Veasey, Deep Learning in Lung CT, Expected graduation date: Spring 2021
2. D.Sc./Ph.D. Committee Participation
Iraj Motabarzadeh, 1998, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Kyoungju Park, 2004, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
M. Sabry Hassouna, 2006, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Hossam Abd El Munim, 2007, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Rashid Fahmi, 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Dongqin Chen, 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Sergey Chekmenev, 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Alaa M. Aly, 2007, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Aleksey Fadev, 2008, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville
Maciej Mazurowski, 2009, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Qian Xu, 2009, Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville
Ahmed Chamseddine Ben Abdallah, 2010, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of
Louisville
Sara Shafaei, 2011, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Hamdi Jenzri, 2014, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville
Artur Abdullin, 2014, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville
Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, 2016, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville
Faezeh Tafazoli, 2017, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville
Aniseh Alvanpour, M.S., 2017, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville
Mahdi Moalla, M.S., 2017, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville
Graham Reid, M.S., 2018, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville
Wiem Safa, 2019, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville
3. M.S./M.Eng. Student Research Supervision
No thesis: Craig Carmen, Chang Cheng, Debashish Pal, Mousumi Bhattacharya
Adrian Fletcher (M. Eng. Student), December 2012, paper title: An Automatic Methodology for
Segmentation of the Lung Parenchyma in Thoracic CT Scans. Current position: staff engineer (as part
of the Science Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship with the DoD),
Warner Robins, Georgia
Shreekanth Kura (M.S. Student), August 2014, Paper topic: Vessel segmentation , Current Position:
Scientific Programmer, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Matthew Dobson (M. Eng. Student), May 2016, project topic: imaging of CSF flow, April 2016
Bryan Gootee (M. Eng. Student), May 2016, project topic: imaging of CSF flow, April 2016
Alex Henn (M. Eng. Student), paper topic: An Aortic Arch Phantom for Optimization of 4D MR
Imaging Protocols, Dec. 2017
Andrew Justice (M. Eng. Student), paper topic, Phase unwrapping of 4D flow MRI data with graph
cuts, April 2018 (Samuel T. Fife Outstanding Master of Engineering Graduate in Electrical
Engineering Award)
Ben Veasey (M.S. Student), paper topic, A Comparative Study of Graph Search Algorithms for
Segmenting Coronary Arteries from Cine Angiography, April 2018 (Speed School Alumni Award)
Erik Rieger (M. Eng. Student),
William Funke (M. Eng. Student)
Sam Biblehauser (M. Eng. Student)
Michael Ferko (M. Eng. Student)
4. M.S. Thesis Committees:
Mahdi Moalla, M.S., CECS, April 2017, Aneseh Alvanpour, M.S., CECS, April 2017, Mohamed
Trabelli, M.S., CECS, April 2018, Graham Reid, CECS, September 2018
5. Independent Study for Undergraduates
Eunice Leung (Washington University), Andrew Justice (University of Louisville), Erik Rieger,
(University of Louisville)
C. Mentoring Activities
1. Postdoctoral Advisees
Rupert W. Curwen (Ph.D., University of Oxford, postdoctoral associate, 1993-1994)
Project: Motion tracking in medical images
Current position: Research Scientist, AT&T Laboratories, Cambridge, U.K.
Vaidy Mani (Ph.D., University of Georgia, postdoctoral associate, 1995-1996)
Project: Analysis of tissue deformations from medical images
Current position: Manager, iOS Video Engineering, Apple, Cupertino, CA
Petia Radeva (Ph.D., University Autonomous of Barcelona, postdoctoral associate, 1997-1998)
Project: B-spline reconstruction of tissue deformations in MRI
Current position: Professor, University Autonomous of Barcelona, Spain
Mohamed Elayyadi (Ph.D., Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, postdoctoral
associate, 1998-1999)
Project: Visualization of tissue motion in medical images
Current position: Research Scientist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Yuping Wang (Ph.D., Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, postdoctoral associate, 1999-2000)
Project: Fast numerical methods for motion tracking based on the thin-plate spline kernel
Current position: Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University
Nasser Fatouraee (Ph.D., Laval University, Canada, postdoctoral associate, 1999-2001)
Project: Regularization of flow streamlines in MR velocity imaging
Current position: Associate Professor, Amirkabir University of Technology
Jian Chen (Ph.D., Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, postdoctoral associate,
2001-2006)
Project: Spatio-temporal band-pass filters for motion tracking
Level-set methods for MRA segmentation
Current position: Research faculty, Washington University in St. Louis
Christian Naaktgeboren (Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, postdoctoral associate, 2007)
Projects: Estimation of pressure from Cine phase-contrast MRI
Current position: Industry, Canada
Mostafa Shakeri (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, postdoctoral associate, 2008-2011)
Projects: particle image velocimetry and in-vitro studies of blood flow
Current position: Energy Startup: Bay area, California
MJ Negahdar (Ph.D., University of Louisville, research associate, 2014-2016)
Project: 4D Flow imaging with MRI
Current Position: Director of MRI Research, University of Louisville School of Medicine
2. Visiting Scientist Sponsorship (Washington University)
Yuehuan Wang, Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,
China, Sept. 2004-August 2005
Project: Measurement of Pressure from MRI Velocity Data
Sina Hooshyar, Doctoral Student, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, June-December 2017
Project: Image processing for determination of hemodynamics in Aortic Stenosis
3. Research Engineers Supervised (Washington University)
Abbas N. Moghaddam, 2001-2003, Project: Measurement of Pressure from PC MRI Data. Current
position: Research Faculty, Dept. of Radiology, UCLA
Hasan Sharifi, 2002, Project: Design and application of orientation-specific filters. Current position:
Research Faculty, Purdue University
4. Medical Students [supervised research]
Andreas Klein, M.D., 1996
Greg Byrd, M.D., 2005 Washington University
5. Undergraduate Students [supervised undergraduate research]
Washington University
John Marchesini, Casey Harger, Leah Daley, Jason Nguyen, Lisa Steinhoff, Trishana Woodard,
Jordan Woenderle, Jean Sun, Steve Makinen, Jason White, Victor Davila, Will McBride, Brig
Meecham.
University of Louisville
David Exe
Publications
A. Edited Books & Proceedings
1. Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis,
Amir A. Amini, Fred Bookstein, and David Wilson (Eds.), San Francisco, CA, June 1996 .
2. Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis,
Benjamin Kimia, Amir A. Amini, and Dimitris Metaxas (Eds.), Hilton Head Island, NC, June
2000
3. Measurement of Cardiac Deformations from MRI: Physical and Mathematical Models.
Amir A. Amini and Jerry Prince (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, December 2001.
4. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology and Function: Methods,
Systems, and Applications, Anne V. Clough and Amir A. Amini (Eds.) San Diego,
California, February 2003
5. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure
from Medical Images, Amir A. Amini and Armando Manduca (Eds.), San Diego, California,
February 2004.
6. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure
from Medical Images, Amir A. Amini and Armando Manduca (Eds.), San Diego, California,
February 2005.
7. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure
from Medical Images, Armando Manduca and Amir A. Amini (Eds.), San Diego, California,
February 2006.
B. Chapter in Books
8. “Visual Perception Using a Blackboard Architecture”, Terry E. Weymouth and Amir A.
Amini, in Image Analysis Applications, Rangachar Kasturi and Mohan Trivedi (Eds.), Marcel
Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 1989.
9. “Pointwise Tracking of Left-Ventricular Motion in 3-D”, Amir A. Amini and James S.
Duncan, in Deformable Models in Medical Image Analysis, A. Singh, Goldgof, and D.
Terzopoulos (Eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 344-349, 1998.
10. “Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images with B-Spline Models”, Yasheng Chen, Yu-Ping
Wang, and Amir A. Amini in Measurement of Cardiac Deformation from MRI: Physical and
Mathematical Models. A. Amini and J. Prince (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, The
Netherlands, December 2001.
11. “Tagged MR Cardiac Imaging”, Nikolaos V. Tsekos and Amir A. Amini, Chapter 6 of
Signal Processing for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, Hong Yan (Ed.),
Marcel Dekker, January 2002.
12. “Tagged MR Image Analysis”, Amir A. Amini and Yasheng Chen, Chapter 16 of Signal
Processing for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, Hong Yan (Ed.), Marcel
Dekker, January 2002.
13. ``Analysis of 4-D Cardiac MR Data with NURBS Deformable Models: Temporal Fitting
Strategy and Nonrigid Registration,’’ Nicholas J. Tustison and Amir A. Amini, Chapter 15
of Parametric and Geometric Deformable Models: An Application in Biomaterials and
Medical Imagery, Vol. II, Springer-Verlag, J. Suri and A. Faraq (Eds.), May 2006
14. “Cardiac MRI for Recovery of Myocardial Deformation: Imaging and Modeling,” Hui Wang
and Amir A. Amini, Chapter 11 of Handbook of Biomedical Engineering: Medical Imaging,
M. Analouis, (Ed.), CRC press, 2012.
15. “Tagging Analysis”, Hui Wang and Amir Amini, Chapter 10 of Heart Mechanics: Magnetic
Resonance Imaging, S. Ibrahim (Ed.), Taylor & Francis, forthcoming, 2016.
16. “Flow Imaging with MRI”, MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, and Amir Amini, Chapter 19 of
Cardiovascular and Neurovascular imaging – Physics and Technology, Carlo Cavedon and
Stephen Rudin (Eds.), Taylor and Francis, 2016.
17. “Deformable Registration of Lung Shapes in 4D CT Images: Determination of Respiratory
Mechanical Strain”, Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir Amini, in Advances of Shape
Analysis in Medical Image Analysis, Shuo Li and João Manuel R. S. Tavares (Eds.), CRC
Press, 2013.
18. “An Optical Flow Approach to Assessment of Ventricular Shape Change Based on
Echocardiography”, Vahid Tavakoli, MJ Negahdar, Jungwon Cha, Marcus Stoddard, and
Amir Amini, in Advances of Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis, Shuo Li and João
Manuel R. S. Tavares (Eds.), CRC Press, 2013.
19. “Tagging Analysis Techniques: I”, Ibrahim El-Sayed, Azza Hussanein, Hui Wang, and Amir
Amini, Chapter 15 of Heart Mechanics: Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Advanced
Techniques, Clinical Applications and Future Trends, I. El-Sayed (Ed.), CRC Press, 2017.
C. Peer-Reviewed Articles
20. Comparison of Retrocardiac and Retropulse Gating in Phase Contrast Cine MRI Quantitation
of CSF Velocity and Flow Pulsations, Robert Bert. Neesha Settipalle, Dheeraj Muddasani,
Emily Tiwana, M.D.; Brandon Wellman, MJ Negahdar, Amir A Amini, Frank Mihlon,
Maxwell Boakye, under revision in Academic Radiology, 2018.
21. Human and swine differences in CSF pulsations measured with through-plane Cine Phase
Contrast MR: further evidence that local arterial pulsations contribute to flow perpetuation, R.
Bert, D. Muddasani, M. Zhu, H. Zheng, C. Ng, MJ Negahdar, A. Amini, B. Wellman, M.
Boakye, In Submission. Journal of Neurosurgery, 2018.
22. “Summary of ISBI 2018 Lung Nodule Malignancy Prediction Challenge,” in preparation for
submission by the Challenge Organizers to the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2018
23. “Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Chest CT Scans,” M.
Farhangi, N. Petrick, B. Sahiner B., H. Frigui, A. Pezeshk, A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on
Medical Imaging. In submission, 2018.
24. “Segmentation and Tracking of Lung Nodules via Graph-Cuts Incorporating Shape Prior and
Motion from 4D CT”, Jungwon Cha, M. Mehdi Farhangi, Neal Dunlap, and Amir A. Amini,
Medical Physics, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 297-306, January 2018.
25. “3D Active Contour Segmentation Based on Sparse Linear Combination of Training Shapes
(SCoTS)”, M. Mehdi Farhangi, Hichem Frigui, Albert Seow, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE
Trans. On Medical Imaging, Vol. 36, Issue 11, pp. 2239-2249, Nov. 2017.
26. “4D Spiral Imaging of Flows in Stenotic Phantoms and Subjects with Aortic Stenosis,” MJ
Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, M. Kendrick, R. Longaker, M. Stoddard, A. Amini, Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine, Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages 1018-1029, March 2016.
27. “4D UTE Flow: A Phase-Contrast MRI Technique for Assessment and Visualization of
Stenotic Flows,” M. Kadbi. MJ Negahdar, JW Cha, M. Kotys-Traughber, P. Martin, M.
Stoddard, and A. Amini, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Volume 73, Issue 3, pages 939–
950, March 2015.
28. “In-Vitro Validation of Flow Measurement with Phase Contrast MRI at 3T Using SPIV and
SPIV-based CFD,” I. Khodarahmi, M. Shakeri, M. Kotys-Traughber, S. Fischer, K. Sharp,
and Amir A. Amini, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 39 (6), 1477-1485, June 2014.
29. “A Survey of Shaped-Based Registration and Segmentation Techniques for Cardiac Images,”
Vahid Tavakoli-Ataebadi and Amir A. Amini, Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
117 (9), 966-989, September 2013.
30. “Tissue Doppler Imaging Optical Flow (TDIOF): A Combined B-Mode and Tissue Doppler
Approach for Cardiac Motion Estimation in Echocardiographic Images,” V. Tavakoli, N.
Bhatia, M. Stoddard, and A. Amini, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 61(8):2264-
2277, 2014.
31. “Strain as a Novel Index of Regional Pulmonary Function from Thoracic 4-D CT: In-Vivo
Validation with Tomographic SPECT Ventilation and Perfusion”, MR Negahdar, N. Dunlap,
A. Zacarias, A. Cahid Civelek, S. Y. Woo, and A. Amini, Medical Physics, in review.
32. “Cardiac Motion and Deformation Recovery from MRI: A Review,” Hui Wang and A.
Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, , Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 487-503, Feb. 2012.
33. “Biventricular Myocardial Strains via Non-Rigid Registration of Anatomical NURBS
Models,” Nicholas Tustison and A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 25,
No. 1, pp. 94-112, January 2006.
34. “Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Pressure Measurements in Vascular Stenoses from PC
MRI,” Abbas Nasiraei-Moghaddam, Nasser Fatouraee, Geoffrey Behrens, Ramesh Agarwal,
Eric Choi, and Amir A. Amini, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Volume 52, No. 2, pp.
300-309, August 2004.
35. “Quantifying 3D Vascular Structures in MRA Images Using Hybrid PDE and Geometric
Deformable Models,” Jian Chen and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical
Imaging, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 1251-1262, October 2004.
36. “A MAP Framework for Tag Line Detection in SPAMM Data Using Markov Random Fields
on the B-Spline Solid,” Yasheng Chen and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical
Imaging, Vol. 21, No. 9, Sept. 2002.
37. “Myocardial Kinematics From Tagged MRI Based on a 4-D B-Spline Model,” Nicholas J.
Tustison, Victor G. Davila-Roman, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 8, August 2003
38. “Regularization of Flow Streamlines in Phase-Contrast MRI,” Nasser Fatouraee and Amir A.
Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 699-709, June 2003
39. “Fast LV Motion Estimation Using Subspace Approximation Techniques”, Yu-Ping Wang,
Yasheng Chen, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions On Medical Imaging, Vol. 20, No.6,
pp. 499-513, June 2001.
40. “Tag Surface Reconstruction and Tracking of Myocardial Beads from SPAMM-MRI with
Parametric B-Surfaces”, Amir A. Amini, Yasheng Chen, Mohamed Elayyadi, and Petia
Radeva, IEEE Transactions On Medical Imaging, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 94-103, February 2001.
41. “Spatio-Temporal Tracking of Myocardial Deformations with a 4D B-Spline Model from
Tagged MRI”, Jiantao Huang, Dana Abendschein, Victor Dávila-Román, and Amir A.
Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 18, Number 10, pp. 957-972,
October 1999.
42. “Coupled B-Snake Grids and Constrained Thin-Plate Splines for Analysis of 2D Tissue
Deformations from Tagged MRI”, Amir A. Amini, Yasheng Chen, Rupert Curwen, Vaidy
Mani, and Jean Sun, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 344-356,
June 1998.
43. “Deformable B-Solids and Implicit Snakes for 3D Localization and Tracking of SPAMM
MRI Data”, Petia Radeva, Amir A. Amini, and Jiantao Huang, Computer Vision and Image
Understanding, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 163-178, May 1997.
44. “Quantitative Coronary Angiography with Deformable Spline Models”, Andreas Klein,
Forrester Lee, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 16, No. 5,
pp. 468-482, October 1997.
45. “Bending and Stretching Models for LV Wall Motion Analysis from Curves and Surfaces”,
Amir A. Amini and James S. Duncan, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 10, Number 6,
pp. 418-430, July/August 1992.
46. “Using Dynamic Programming for Solving Variational Problems in Vision”, Amir A. Amini,
Terry E. Weymouth, and Ramesh C. Jain, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence, Volume 12, Number 9, pp. 855-867, September 1990.
47. “A Parallel Algorithm for Determining 2D Object Positions Using Incomplete Information
about their Boundaries”, Amir A. Amini, Terry E. Weymouth, and David J. Anderson,
Pattern Recognition, Volume 22, Number 1, pp. 21-28, January 1989.
48. “An MR compatible aortic arch phantom with calcific polymeric valves,” Alex Henn, Sean
Callahan, Amir A. Amini, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2019
49. “A Comparative Study of Graph Search Algorithms for Segmenting Coronary Arteries from
Cine Angiography,” Benjamin Veasey, Shahab Ghafghazi, Amir Amini, SPIE Medical
Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2019
50. “4D Dual Venc Spiral Flow MRI,” Sean Callahan, Alex Henn, Michael Kendrick, Hui Wang,
MJ Negahdar, Arash Kheradvar, Marcus Stoddard, and Amir Amini, Proceedings of IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Honolulu, July 2018.
51. “Statistical Correlation of CT Ventilation Imaging and V/Q SPECT in Patients with Lung
Cancer”, Jung won Cha, Neal Dunlap, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE International Symposium
on Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., April 2018.
52. “3D Segmentation of the Ascending and Descending Aorta from CT data via Graph-Cuts”,
Jungwon Cha, Alexander Henn, Marcus Stoddard, and Amir Amini, SPIE Medical Imaging
Symposium, Houston, TX, February 2018.
53. “Volumetric Analysis of Respiratory Gated Whole Lung and Liver CT Data with Motion-
Constrained Graph Cuts Segmentation,” Jung won Cha, Mehdi Farhangi, Neal Dunlap, Amir
Amini, IEEE EMBS Conference, Jeju Island, South Korea, July 2017.
54. “4D Lung Tumor Segmentation via Shape Prior and Motion Cues,” Jung won Cha, Mehdi
Farhangi, Neal Dunlap, Amir Amini, IEEE EMBS Conference, Gainsville, FL, August 2016
55. “Incorporating Shape Prior into Active Contours with a Sparse Linear Combination of
Training Shapes: Application to Corpus Collasum Segmentation”, Mohammad Mehdi
Farhangi, Hichem Frigui, Robert Bert, Amir Amini, IEEE EMBS Conference, Orlando, FL,
August 2016
56. “3D Segmentation of Lung CT Data with Graph-Cuts: Analysis of Parameter Sensitivities,”
Jung won Cha, Brian Wang, Neal Dunlap, and Amir Amini, SPIE Medical Imaging,
February 2016, San Diego, CA
57. “4D Lung Tumor Segmentation via Shape Prior and Motion Cues,” Jung won Cha,
Mohammad Mehdi Farhangi, Neal Dunlap, Amir Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Conference, Orlando, FL, August 2016
58. “Analysis of 3D Cardiac Deformations with 3D SinMod”, Hui Wang, Christian Torben
Stoeck, Sebastian Kozerke, Amir Amini, 35th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference,
Osaka, Japan, July 2013.
59. “Noninvasive 3D Pressure Calculation from PC-MRI Via Non-Iterative Harmonics-Based
Orthoghonal Projection: Constant Flow Experiment”, MJ Negahdar, Jung won Cha, Mo
Kadbi, Juan Cebral, Amir Amini, 35th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Osaka,
Japan, July 2013.
60. “Assessment of Flow and Hemodynamics in the Carotid Artery Using a Reduced TE 4D Flow
Spiral Phase-Contrast MRI”, Mo Kadbi, MJ Negahdar, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin,
Amir Amini, 35th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Osaka, Japan, July 2013.
61. “Comparison of Indices of Regional Lung Function from 4D CT: Jacobian vs. Strain of
Deformation”, Mohammadreza Negahdar, Neal Dunlap, Albert Zacarias, A. Cahid Civelek,
Shiao Y.Woo, and Amir A Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, San
Francisco, CA, April 2013.
62. “A Multimodal (MRI/Ultrasound) Cardiac Phantom for Imaging Experiments,” V. Tavakoli,
M. Kendrick, M. Shakeri, M. Alshaher, M. Stoddard, A. Amini, , Society for Photooptical
Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013
63. “Comparison of Cartesian, UTE Radial, and Spiral Phase-Contrast MRI in Measurement of
Blood Flow in Extracranial Carotid Arteries: Normal Subjects”, MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi,
Vahid Tavakoli, Jens Heidenreich, Andrea Yancey, Amir A. Amini, Society for Photo-
optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013
64. “Cardiac Deformation Analysis Using 3D SinMod from 3D CSPAMM Tagged MRI,” Hui
Wang and Amir A. Amini, Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013
65. “Improved Cardiac Motion Detection from Ultrasound Images using TDIOF: a Combined B-
Mode/ Tissue Doppler Approach,” Vahid Tavakoli, Motaz Alshaher, Marcus Stoddard, and
Amir A. Amini, Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical
Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013
66. “Strain as a novel index of regional pulmonary function from thoracic 4D CT images: in-vivo
validation with tomographic SPECT ventilation and perfusion,” Mohammadreza Negahdar,
Neal Dunlap, Albert Zacarias, A. Cahid Civelek, Shiao Y.Woo, and Amir A Amini, Society
for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February
2013
67. “A Novel Phase-Corrected 3D Cine Ultra-Short TE (UTE) Phase-Contrast MRI Technique”,
Mo Kadbi, Hui Wang, MJ Negahdar, Lizette Warner, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin, Jens
Heidenreich, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference,
San Diego, CA, September 2012
68. “Validation of 3D Ultra-Short TE (UTE) Phase-Contrast MRI For Imaging of Steady Flow:
Initial Phantom Experiments”, Mo Kadbi, MJ Negahdar, Jung won Cha, Melanie Traughber,
Peter Martin, Jens Heidenreich, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Conference, San Diego, CA, September 2012
69. “Shear Stress Determination in a Model of Iliac Artery Stenosis”, M. Shakeri, I. Khodarahmi,
K. Sharp, and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings for ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference,
Farjardo, Puerto Rico, June 2012.
70. “EfFect of Venc on Accuracy of velocity profiles in Multi-Slice Phase-Contrast MR imaging
of Stenotic flow “, MJ Negahdar, J. Cha, M. Shakeri, M. Kendrick, M. Alshaher, K. Sharp, A.
Yancey, J. Heidenreich, and Amir A. Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical
Imaging, Barcelona, Spain, May 2012
71. “Regional Lung Strains Via A Volumetric Mass Conserving Optical Flow Model”,
Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A. Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical
Imaging, Barcelona, Spain, May 2012
72. “Comparison of Relative Pressures Calculated from PC-MRI and SPIV with Catheter-based
Pressure Measurements in a Stenotic Phantom Model,” Iman Khodarahmi, Mostafa Shakeri,
Melanie Kotys-Traughber, Michael K. Sharp, Amir A. Amini, Society for Photooptical
Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February 2012.
73. “A 3-D Optical Flow Technique based on Mass Conservation for Deformable Motion
Estimation from 4-D CT Images of the Lung,” Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A
Amini, Society for Photooptical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February
2012. (Finalist in the Best Student Paper Award)
74. “An Automated Landmark-based Elastic Registration Technique for Large Deformation
Recovery from 4-D CT Lung Images,” Mohammadreza Negahdar, Albert Zacarias, Rebecaa
Milam, Neal Dunlap, Shiao Y. Woo, Amir A. Amini, Society for Photooptical
Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February 2012.
75. “Orthogonal CSPAMM (OCSPAMM) MR Tagging for Imaging Ventricular Wall Motion “,
Hui Wang, Mo Kadbi, Melanie Kotys, Mehmet Ersoy, George Chatzimavroudis, Randolph
Setser, Motaz Alshaher, Stefan Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011
76. “An Improved Real-time Cine Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) Imaging Method at 3T”,
Mo Kadbi, Melanie Kotys, Motaz Alshaher, Stefan Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011
77. “Rapid Flow Quantification in Iliac Arteries from Spiral Phase-Contrast MRI”, MJ Negahdar,
Mo Kadbi, Melanie Kotys, Motaz Alshaher, Stefan Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011
78. “Estimation of Affine Motion from Projection Data Using a Mass Conservation Model”,
Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011
79. “Multi-scale Optical Flow Including Normalized Mutual Information for Planar Deformable
Lung Motion Estimation from 4D CT”, Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A. Amini,
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011
80. “A Multi-scale Nonlinear Vessel Enhancement Technique”, Behnaz Abdollahi, Ayman El-
Baz, and and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference,
Boston, MA, September 2011
81. “Planar Deformable Motion Estimation Incorporating Mass Conservation and Image Gradient
Constancy”, M.R. Negahdar and Amir A. Amini, IEEE International Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging, Chicago, IL, April 2011.
82. “Cine phase-contrast MRI measurement of CSF flow in the cervical spine: a pilot study in
patients with spinal cord injury”, MJ Negahdar, Mostafa Shakeri, Elizabeth McDowell, John
Wells, Susan Harkema, and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on
Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL,
February 2011.
83. “The effect of PSF spatial-variance and nonlinear transducer geometry on motion estimation
from echocardiography”, Vahid Tavakoli and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE
Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging,
Orlando, FL, February 2011.
84. “Cardiac Motion Tracking Approach with Multilevel B-splines and SinMod from Tagged
MRI”, Hui Wang and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Biomedical
Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2011.
(Honorable Mention Poster Award)
85. “Using PIV to Determine Relative Pressures in a Stenotic Phantom Under Steady Flow Based
on the Pressure-Poisson Equation”, I. Khodarahmi, M. Shakeri, M. Sharp, and Amir A.
Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
August 2010.
86. “Comparison of Myocardial Motion Estimation Methods Based on Simulated
Echocardiographic B-Mode and RF Data,” V. Tavakoli, J. Kemp, B. Dawn, M. Stoddard, and
Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Biomedical Applications in
Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010.
87. “Accurate 2-D Cardiac Motion Tracking Using Scattered Data Fitting incorporating Phase
Information from MRI,” H. Wang and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference
on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, San Diego,
CA, February 2010
88. “Tracking planar lung motion in 4D CT with optical flow: validations and comparison of
global, local and local-global methods,” M..R. Negahdar and Amir Amini, Proceedings of the
SPIE Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional
Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010.
89. “Optical Imaging of Steady Flow in a Phantom Model of Iliac Artery Stenosis: Comparison of
CFD Simulations with PIV Measurements,” M. Shakeri, I. Khodarahmi, M. Sharp, and Amir
A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular,
Structural, and Functional Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010.
90. “Accurate Recovery of 4D Left Ventricular Deformations using NURBS Model Incorporating
Phase-Based Displacement Estimates,” Jian Chen, Nicholas Tustison, and Amir A. Amini,
proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure
from Medical Images, San Diego, California, February 2006.
91. “Pulsatile Pressure Measurements Via Harmonics-Based Orthogonal Projection of Noisy
Pressure Gradients ,” Yuehuan Wang, Abbas N. Moghaddam, Geoffrey Behrens, Nasser
Fatouraee, Juan Cebral, Eric T. Choi, and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of SPIE Medical
Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San
Diego, California, February 2006.
92. “Integrable Pressure Gradients Via Harmonics-Based Orthogonal Projection,” Yuehuan Wang
and Amir A. Amini, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, LNCS 3565, pp. 431-442,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2005
93. “Lagrangian and Eulerian Biventricular Strains from Anatomical NURBS Models Using
Tagged MRI,” Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging
Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San Diego,
California, February 2005.
94. “Comparison of Parallel and Spiral Tagged MRI Geometries in Estimation of 3-D Myocardial
Strains,” Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging
Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San Diego,
California, February 2005.
95. “Biventricular Myocardial Kinematics Based on Tagged MRI From Volumetric NURBS
Models," Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of IEEE Computer Society
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington, D.C., June 2004.
96. “Myocardial Kinematics Based on Tagged MRI From Geometric Deformable NURBS
Models,” Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, SPIE Conference on Physiology, Function,
and Structure from Medical Images, San Diego, California, February 2004.
97. “An Optical Flow Approach for Automated Breathing Motion Tracking in 4D Computed
Tomography,” I. El Naqa, D. Low, M. Nystrom, P. Parikh, W. Lu, J. Deasy, A. Amini, J.
Hubenschmidt, S. Wahab, Proc. of 14th Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation
Therapy, pp. 74-77, Seoul, Korea, May 2004
98. “Fast Computation of Static Flow Pressure Maps from Phase-Contrast MRI in Axi-Symmetric
Coordinates,” Abbas N. Moghaddam, Eric T. Choi, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Houston, TX October 2002
99. “A Fast Method for Computation of the Static Pressure Field in Stenotic Geometries by PC
MRI,” Abbas N. Moghaddam, Geoffrey Behrens, Nasser Fatouraee, Ramesh Agarwal, Eric
Choi, and Amir A. Amini, SPIE Conference on Physiology and Function from Multi-
Dimensional Medical Images: Methods, Systems, and Applications, San Diego, California,
February 2003.
100. “Automated Breathing Motion Tracking for 4D Computed Tomography,” I. El Naqa,
D. Low, J. Deasy, A. Amini, P. Parikh, and M. Nystrom, IEEE Symposium on Nuclear
Science, Vol. 5, pp. 3219-3222, Oct. 2003.
101. “Tracking Myocardial Beads from SPAMM-MRI with a 4-D B-Spline Model,”
Nicholas J. Tustison and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society Conference, Houston, TX October 2002
102. “Myocardial Strain Imaging with Tagged MRI,” Nicholas Tustison, Dana
Abendschein, Victor Davila-Roman, and Amir A. Amini, International Conference on
Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002.
103. “Markov Random Field Model for 3D Left-Ventricular Motion Estimation from
Tagged MRI”, Y. Chen and Amir A. Amini, SPIE Conference on Physiology, Function, and
Structure from Medical Images, pp. 150-159, San Diego, CA, February 2002.
104. “A MAP Framework for Tag Line Detection in SPAMM Data Using Markov Random
Fields on the B-Spline Solid,” Yasheng Chen and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Workshop on
Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001.
105. “Recovery of Flow Patterns in an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Phantom from
Phase-Contrast MRI”, Nasser Fatouraee and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Workshop on
Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton Head, S.C., pp. 104-109, June
2000.
106. “Fast Computation of Tagged MRI Motion Fields”, Yu-Ping Wang and Amir A.
Amini, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton
Head, S.C., pp. 119-126, June 2000.
107. “Fast Techniques for Determining Myocardial Strains from Tagged MRI,” Y. Wang
and Amir Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Chicago, IL., July
2000.
108. “Noninvasive Placement and 3D Tracking of Myocardial Beads with SPAMM Tagged
Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” A. Amini, P. Radeva, M. Elayyadi, W. McBride, D. Li, and
D. Abendschein, Computers in Cardiology, pp. 745-748, 1998.
109. Comparison of Land-Mark Based and Curve-Based Thin-Plate Warps for Analysis of
Left-Ventricular Motion from Tagged MRI”, Amir A. Amini, Yasheng Chen, and Dana
Abendschein, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, University of
Cambridge, UK, pp. 498-507, September 1999.
110. “Four-dimensional LV Tissue Tracking from Tagged MRI with a 4D B-Spline
Model”, Jiantao Huang and Amir A. Amini, in Information Processing in Medical Imaging,
Visegrad, Hungary, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1613, Kuba, Samal, and
Todd-Pokropek (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 346-351, July 1999.
111. Measurement of 3D Motion of Myocardial Material Points from Tagged Data”, Amir
A. Amini, Petia Radeva, Mohamed Elayyadi, and Debiao Li, Medical Image Computing and
Computer-Assisted Intervention, MIT, Cambridge, MA, pp. 110-118, October 1998.
112. “Anatomical Object Volumes from Deformable B-Spline Surface Models”, Jiantao
Huang and Amir A. Amini, International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL,
October 1998.
113. “Constrained Thin-Plate Spline Reconstruction of 2D Deformations from Tagged
MRI”, Amir A. Amini, Y. Chen, J. Sun, and V. Mani, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image
Analysis, Santa Barbara, California, pp. 36-45, June 1998.
114. “Snakes and Splines for Tracking Non-Rigid Heart Motion”, Amir A. Amini, Rupert
Curwen, and John Gore, European Conference on Computer Vision, University of
Cambridge, U.K., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1065, Cipolla and Buxton
(Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 251-261, April 1996.
115. “Deformable B-Solids and Implicit Snakes for 3D Localization and Tracking of
SPAMM MRI Data”, Petia Radeva, Amir A. Amini, J. Huang, and E. Marti, Proceedings of
Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, San Francisco, California, pp. 192-
201, April 1996.
116. “Physics-Based Snakes, Kalman Snakes, and Snake Grids for Medical Image
Segmentation and Tracking”, Amir A. Amini, et. al, Information Processing in Medical
Imaging, Ile de Berder, France, Yves Bizais (Ed.), Kluwer, New York, pp. 363-364, June
1995.
117. “A Scalar Function Formulation for Optical Flow: Applications to X-ray Imaging,”
Amir A. Amini, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, pp. 117-123, 1994.
118. “Tracking Vascular Motion in X-ray Image Sequences with Kalman Snakes”, R.
Curwen, Amir A. Amini, J. Duncan, and F. Lee, Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology,
Bethesda, Maryland, pp. 109-112, September 1994.
119. “Identifying Vascular Features with Orientation Specific Filters and B-Spline Snakes”,
A. Klein, T. Egglin, J. Pollak, F. Lee, and Amir A. Amini , Proceedings of Computers in
Cardiology, Bethesda, Maryland, pp. 113-116, September 1994.
120. “A Scalar Function Formulation for Optical Flow”, Amir A. Amini, European
Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Volume 800, Jan-Olof Eklundh (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 125-131, May 1994.
121. MR Physics-Based Snake Tracking and Dense Deformations from Tagged Cardiac
Images”, Amir A. Amini, Rupert W. Curwen, R. Todd Constable, and John C. Gore,
Stanford University AAAI Conference on Applications of Computer Vision to Medical
Imaging, pp. 126-129, March 21-23, 1994.
122. “Shape-Based Tracking and Analysis of Myocardial Function from 4D images”,
James S. Duncan, Peng Shi, Amir A. Amini, R. Todd Constable, and Albert Sinusas,
Stanford University AAAI Conference on Applications of Computer Vision to Medical
Imaging, pp. 165-168, March 21-23, 1994
123. “Computational Techniques for Determining Non-Rigid Motion of Blood from
Medical Images,” Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging
(Image Processing), Newport Beach, California, pp. 403-412, February 1994.
124. “Physical Models for Measurement of Blood Velocity and Flow from Diagnostic
Images”, Amir A. Amini, Thomas K. Egglin, and Jeffrey S. Pollak, Computers in
Cardiology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., pp. 783-786,
September 1993.
125. “Motion Tracking of the Left-Ventricular Surface,” Amir A. Amini, Pengcheng Shi,
and James S. Duncan, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Biomedical Image Processing and
Three-Dimensional Microscopy, San Jose, California, pp. 343-353, February 1992.
126. “Differential Geometry for Characterizing 3D Shape Change,” Amir A. Amini and
James S. Duncan, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Mathematical Methods in Medical
Imaging, San Diego, California, pp. 170-181, July 1992.
127. “Energy-Minimizing Deformable Grids for Tracking Tagged MR Cardiac Images”,
Amir A. Amini, Pengcheng Shi, Todd Constable, Kevin Johnson, James S. Duncan, and John
C. Gore, Computers in Cardiology, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 651-654, October 1992.
128. “Non-Rigid Motion Models for Tracking the Left Ventricular Wall”, Amir A. Amini,
Randall L. Owen, P. Anandan, and James S. Duncan, Information Processing in Medical
Imaging, Wye, U.K., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 511, Alan C. Colchester and
David J. Hawkes (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 343-357, July 1991.
129. “Point wise Tracking of Left-Ventricular Motion in 3D”, Amir A. Amini and James
S. Duncan, IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 294-299, October
1991.
130. “Shape-Based 4D Left Ventricular Myocardial Function Analysis,” P. Shi, A. Amini,
G. Robinson, A. Sinusas, C. Constable and J.S. Duncan, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical
Image Analysis, Seattle, Washington, June, 1994, Pp. 88-99.
131. “Towards Reliable, Noninvasive Measurement of Myocardial Function from 4D
Images,” J.S. Duncan, P. Shi, A. Amini, R. Constable, L. Staib, D. Dione, Q. Shi, E. Heller,
M. Singer, A. Chakraborty, G. Robinson, J. Gore and A. Sinusas, SPIE Medical Imaging:
Physiology and Function from Medical Images, Newport Beach, Ca., Feb., 1994. Pp. 149-
161.
132. “Two and Three Dimensional Motion Models for the Left Ventricular Wall,” A.
Amini, R. Owen, P. Anandan, and J. Duncan, in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Northeast
Bioengineering Conference, Hartford, Connecticut, April, 1991. Pp. 193-194.
133. “Energy- Minimizing Grids for Tracking MR Tags”, P. Shi, A. Amini, T. Constable
and J. Duncan , Proceedings of the 18th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference,
Kingston, Rhode Island, April, 1992. [honorable mention paper award]
134. “TVS: An Environment for Building Vision Systems”, Terry E. Weymouth, Amir A.
Amini, and Saeid Tehrani, Proceedings of Applications of Artificial Intelligence VII,
Orlando, Florida, March 1989.
135. “Using Dynamic Programming for Minimizing the Energy of Active Contours in the
Presence of Hard Constraints,” Amir A. Amini, Saeid Tehrani, and Terry E. Weymouth,
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision, Tampa, Florida, pp.
95-99, December 1988.
136. “Representation and Organization of Domain Knowledge in a Blackboard
Architecture: A Case Study from Computer Vision,” Amir A. Amini and Terry E.
Weymouth, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Alexandria,
VA, October 1987
137. “A Framework for Knowledge-Based Computer Vision: Using a Blackboard
Architecture,” Terry E. Weymouth and Amir A. Amini, Society of Manufacturing Engineers,
Detroit, Michigan, 1987
Abstracts
138. “A Least Squares Approach for Calculation of Relative Pressure Measurement from
PC-MRI”, Sina Hooshyar, Sean Callahan, MJ Negahdar, Saeed Kermani, Amir Amini,
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Paris, France, June 2018
139. “4D CSF Flow Measurement in Cervical Spine at 3T,” Ruponti Nath, MJ Negahdar,
Robert Bert, Amir Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Paris,
France, June 2018.
140. “Phase Unwrapping of 4D Flow Data with Graph Cuts,” Andrew Justice, Sean
Callahan, Jung won Cha, Amir Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in
Medicine, Paris, France, June 2018.
141. Bert R, Tiwana E, Settipalle N, Muddasani D, Negahdar MJ, Amini A, Wellman B,
Boakye M. The Relationships of Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar CSF Flows with Cross
Sectional Cord Area, Caudal Residual Cord Length, Caudal Residual Cord Volume and
Arterial, Venous Correlations: Evidence of Intrathecal Sources and Sinks Contributing to CSF
Pulsations. SNR (Symposium Neuroradiologicum, Taipei) 2018
142. “4D Flow Imaging in a MR Compatible Spinal Canal Phantom with and without
Occlusion,” M. Dobson, B. Gootee, R. Bert, MJ Negahdar, and A. Amini, International
Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Singapore, May 2016
143. “Quantification and Visualization of CSF Flow in the Cervical Spine, in-vivo, using
4D Spiral Flow MRI”, MJ Negahdar, R. Bert, and A. Amini, International Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2016
144. “4D Spiral Imaging of Flows through a Stenotic Narrowing: In-Vivo Flows”,
MJ Negahdar, M. Kadbi, M. Kendrick, M. Stoddard, and A. Amini, International Symposium
on Biomedical Imaging, Brooklyn, NY, April 2015.
145. “Assessment and Quantification of Aortic Stenosis Hemodynamics with 4D UTE
Flow MRI: Comparison with Doppler Echocardiography,” MJ Negahdar, M. Kadbi, M.
Kendrick, R. Longaker, M. Stoddard, and A. Amini, International Society for Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine, Milan, Italy, May 2014.
146. “Non-Invasive 3D Pressure Calculation from 4D Flow: Pulsatile Phantom Study,” MJ
Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, Michael Kendrick, Rita Longaker, Sohail Ikram, Marcus Stoddard,
Amir Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China, May 2014.
147. “Assessment and Visualization of Pulsatile Flow in Aortic Stenosis with 4D Flow
MRI ,” MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, Michael Kendrick, Rita Longaker, Sohail Ikram, Marcus
Stoddard, Amir Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China,
May 2014.
148. “Heterogeneous Pattern of 2D Lung Deformations Revealed through Deformable
Registration of 4D CT Data,” Jung won Cha, Neal Dunlap, Brian Wang, Shiao Y Woo, Amir
Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China, May 2014.
149. “Fusion of Tissue Doppler and Speckle Tracking in Echocardiography Images:
Comparison with Speckle Tracking Echocardiography”, Vahid Tavakoli, Nirmon Bhatia,
Marcus Stoddard, and Amir Amini, American College of Cardiology annual meeting, San
Francisco, California, March 2013
150. “A Fast 3-D Non-Iterative Approach to Pressure Calculation from PC-MRI: Phantom
Experiments,” MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, Jung-Won Cha, Juan Cebral, and Amir Amini,
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2013.
151. “A Fast Reduced TE 4D Spiral PC MRI Sequence for Assessment of Flow and
Hemodynamics”, Mo Kadbi, MJ Negahdar, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin, and Amir
Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah,
April 2013.
152. “4D UTE Flow: A Novel 4D Ultra-Short TE Phase-Contrast MRI Technique for
Assessment of Flow and Hemodynamics”, Mo Kadbi, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin, and
Amir Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City,
Utah, April 2013.
153. “3D Left-Ventricular Deformation Analysis from 3D CSPAMM with 3D SinMod”,
Hui Wang, Christian Stoeck, Sebastian Kozerke, and Amir Amini, International Society for
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2013.
154. "A Multimodal (MR/US) Cardiac Phantom for Validation of Imaging Algorithms",
Vahid Tavakoli, Mostafa Shakeri, Michael Kendrick, Motaz Alshaher, Amir Amini, North
American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), Pasadena, October 2012
155. "Combining Tissue Doppler and Speckle Tracking in Echocardiography Images:
Comparison with Tagged MR", Vahid Tavakoli, Motaz Alshaher, Marcus Stoddard, Amir
Amini, North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), Pasadena, October
2012
156. “Strain as a Novel Index of Regional Function from Treatment Planning Thoracic 4-D
CT,” Mohammadreza Negahdar, Amir A Amini, Albert Zacarias, Bart L Lynch, Rebecca A
Milam, Shiao Y. Woo, and Neal Dunlap, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, supplement for the
2012 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology, Chicago, IL, USA, Sept.
2012
157. “A Four Chamber Dynamic Cardiac Phantom for MRI Studies,” V. Tavakoli, M.
Shakeri, M. Kendrick, M. Alshaher, A. Amini, European Society of Radiology (ESR), E-
poster, Vienna, Austria, March 2012
158. “Cardiac Deformation Analysis from Orthogonal CSPAMM (OCSPAMM) Tagged
MRI,” Hui Wang, Mo Kadbi, Motaz Alshaher, Melanie Kotys, Stefan E. Fischer, and Amir
A. Amini,, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), Orlando, FL, February
2012, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012, 14(suppl. 1):W17
159. “Accuracy of Flow measurement with Phase Contrast MRI in a Stenotic Phantom:
Where should flow be measured?” Iman Khodarahmi, Mostafa Shakeri, Melanie Kotys-
Traughber, M. Keith Sharp, Amir A. Amini, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
(SCMR), Orlando, FL, February 2012, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012,
14(suppl. 1): P219
160. “Pressure Gradients Calculated from PC MRI, SPIV, and CFD Velocity Data in a
Phantom Model: Comparison with Catheter Pressure Measurement,” Iman Khodarahmi,
Mostafa Shakeri, Melanie Kotys-Traughber, M. Keith Sharp, Amir A. Amini, ISMRM Flow
& Motion Workshop, Orlando, FL, February 2012. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic
Resonance 2012, 14(suppl. 1):W34
161. “A Novel Optical Flow Method for Myocardial Deformation Analysis from Tagged
MRI,”Mohammadreza Negahdar, Hui Wang, and Amir A. Amini, ISMRM Flow & Motion
Workshop, Orlando, FL, February 2012, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
2012, 14(suppl. 1):W45
162. “Choice of Bandpass Filter on Accuracy of Myocardial Deformation Recovery With
SinMod”, Hui Wang, Mo Kadbi, Melanie Troughber, and Amir Amini, International Society
of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May 2012
163. “A Two-Chamber Multi-modality Cardiac Phantom”, Vahid Tavakoli, Michael
Kendrick, Motaz Alshaher, and Amir Amini, International Society of Magnetic Resonance
in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May 2012
164. “Effect of Trajectory Delay in Cine Ultra-Short TE Phase-Contrast MR Imaging of the
Carotid Bifurcation”, Mo Kadbi, Hui Wang, Lizette Warner, Melanie Traughber, Motaz
Alshaher, Andrea Yancey, Jens Heidenreich, and Amir A Amini, International Society of
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May 2012
165. “3D Cine Ultra-short TE (UTE) phase contrast imaging in carotid artery: comparison
with conventional technique”, Mo Kadbi, Hui Wang, Lizette Warner, Melanie Traughber,
Motaz Alshaher, Andrea Yancey, Jens Heidenreich, and Amir A Amini, International
Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May
2012
166. “A real-time cine late gadolinium enhancement imaging method at 3T,” M. Kadbi, H.
Wang, MJ Negahdar, M. Kotys, S. Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, International Society of
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 2011
167. “In-Vitro Validation of Phase Contrast MRI at 7T in a Stenotic Phantom Under Steady
Flow Using PIV,” I. Khodarahmi, M. Shakeri, R. Pratt, J. Wansapura, M. K. Sharp, and
Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting,
Stockholm, Sweden, May 2010.
168. “A Global Phase Unwrapping Method for Cardiac Motion Tracking Using Tagged
MRI,” H. Wang and Amir A. Amini, North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging,
annual meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2010
169. “Automated breathing motion tracking for 4D CT,” I. ElNaqa, D. Low, J. Deasy,”
Amir A Amini, P. Parikh, and M. Nystrom, AIPM annual meeting, July 2003.
170. “A Deformable Model for Automatic Detection of Tag Features in 3D within a
Bayesian Framework,” Yasheng Chen and Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2003
171. “ Numerical Simulation of Steady and Pulsatile Flow Through Vascular Stenoses and
Comparison with Experiments Using Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” G.
Behrens, R. Agarwal, A. Moghaddam, E. Choi, A. Amini, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Meeting, November 2003.
172. “Deformable Registration of 3He MR and X-ray CT Images of the Lungs,” Nicholas
Tustison, Dmitriy Yablonskiy, Mark Conradi, and Amir A. Amini, International Society of
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2002.
173. “Strain Patterns from a 4D B-Spline Model of Tagged MRI: Baseline and Post-MI
Studies.” Jiantao Huang, Dana Abendschein, Victor Dávila-Román, and Amir A. Amini,
International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow,
Scotland, April 2001.
174. Computation and Visualization of 3D Tag Intersections from a 4D B-Spline Model of
Tagged MRI.” Jiantao Huang and Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.
175. “Accuracy of 3D Myocardial Strains from a 4D B-Spline Deformable Model for
Tagged MRI,” Jiantao Huang and Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.
176. “Detection of MR Flow Disturbance in Small Diameter Tubes and Coronary Arteries,”
P. Woodard, J. Zheng, D. Abendschein, R. Kowalski, N. Fatouraee, N. Tsekos, A. Amini, and
R. Gropler, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting,
Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.
177. “Deformable Grids and Smooth Warps for Analysis of SPAMM Images”, Amir A.
Amini , Rupert Curwen, R. Todd Constable, and John Gore, Society of Magnetic Resonance
in Medicine Annual Meeting, Nice, France, August 1995.
178. “Automated Motion Tracking and Dense Deformations from Tagged MR Cardiac
Images”, Amir A. Amini, R. W. Curwen, R. T. Constable, and J. C. Gore, Proceedings of
SMR 2nd Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 1994.
179. “3D Shape Based Tracking of Left Ventricular Wall Motion: Experimental
Validation,” J. Duncan, A. Sinusas, T. Constable, L. Staib, D. Dione, Q. Shi, P. Shi, A.
Amini, E. Heller, T. McAuley, Annual Scientific Session of the American College of
Cardiology, Atlanta, GA, March 1994.
180. ““Planum Temporal Area and Symmetry are Comparable in Dyslexic and Normal
Children ,” J. Duncan, Y. Wang, A. Amini, R. Greene, L. Kier, J. Gore, J. Holahan, S.
Shaywitz, J. Fletcher, R. Bronen and B. Shaywitz, Proc. of 21st Annual Child Neurology
Society Meeting, New Orleans, La., Oct, 1992.
181. “3D Shape Based Tracking of Left Ventricular Wall Motion: Experimental
Validation” J. Duncan, A. Sinusas, R.T. Constable, L. H. Staib, D.P. Dione, Q. Shi, P. Shi, A.
A. Amini, E. Heller, and T. McAuley, American College of Cardiology 43rd Annual Scientific
Session, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 1994.
E. Other Publications [not peer-reviewed]
1. Editorials
182. “Biomedical Image Analysis,” Amir A. Amini, Fred Bookstein, and David Wilson,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 163-178, May 1997
183. “Vascular Imaging,” Alejandro Frangi, Amir A. Amini, and Elizabeth Bullitt, IEEE
Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 24, No. 3, April 2005.
2. Invited Articles and Reviews
184. ``Imaging and Analysis for Determination of Cardiovascular Mechanics,’’ Amir A.
Amini, Jian Chen, and Yuehuan Wang, Invited Paper, International Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., April 2007
185. “Flexible Shape Models for Segmentation and Tracking of Cardiovascular Imaging
Data”, Amir A. Amini, Jiantao Huang, Andreas Klein, Petia Radeva, and Mohamed
Elayyadi, Invited Paper, International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL, October
1998.
186. “Detection and Tracking of LV Endocardial Surface from 3D Image Sequences”,
James S. Duncan, Larry Staib, and Amir A. Amini, Invited Paper, Proc. of IEEE Conference
on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Orlando, November 1991.
3. Technical Reports
187. “Surface-Weaving with Deformable Signals”, Amir A. Amini, Brian Schunck, and
Ramesh Jain, Dept. of EECS, University of Michigan, Technical Report, 1989.
188. “The Vision System”, Amir A. Amini, Saeed Tehrani, and Terry Weymouth, Dept. of
EECS, University of Michigan, Technical Report, 1988.
Presentations
A. Presentations at Conferences. Note that the following list does not include oral
presentations by students/postdocs
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Prague, Czech Republic 2016
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2015, Brooklyn, NY, April 2015.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2014, Beijing, China, April 2014.
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, San Diego, California, February 2012.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., April 2007
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San
Diego, California, February 2006.
World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, July 2000
IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton Head, S.C., pp
104-109, June 2000.
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San
Diego, California, February 1999.
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October
1998.
Computers in Cardiology, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.
IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, Santa Barbara, California, June 1998.
AAAI Conference on Applications of Computer Vision to Medical Imaging, Stanford University,
March 1994
SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging (Image Processing), Newport Beach, California, February
1994.
Computers in Cardiology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., September
1993.
SPIE Conference on Biomedical Image Processing and Three-Dimensional Microscopy, San Jose,
California, February 1992.
SPIE Conference on Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, July 1992.
Computers in Cardiology, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 651-654, October 1992
IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1991
Second International Conference on Computer Vision, Tampa, Florida, December 1988.
B. External Invited Talks and Seminars
University of California, Irvine, April 2017
George Mason University, Arlington, VA, May 2016
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, May 2014
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, December 2013
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, July 2013
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 2011
Philips MR Research, Cleveland, Ohio, May 2010
IEEE Louisville branch, March 2009
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April 2007
University of Memphis, April 2005
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, 2004
Pfizer Computational Medicine, Groton, 2004
New York University, New York, 2003
Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003
University of Washington, Seattle, 2001
University of California, Irvine, 2001
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL 1998
Whitaker Symposium on Cardiovascular Imaging, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1998
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 1996
University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1996
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1995
United Medical and Dental School, London, U.K., 1994
Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., 1994
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1989
Philips Medical Systems, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 1989
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, 1989
University of Miami, Miami, FL, 1989
Kodak Image Processing Research, Rochester, NY, 1989
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 1989
Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1989
C. Posters at Conferences. Note that the following list does not include posters presented by
student/postdocs
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Prague, Czech Republic 2016
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Brooklyn, NY 2015
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China, 2014
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Osaka, Japan 2013
SCMR/ISMRM Jointly Sponsored Workshop on Exploring New Dimensions of Cardiovascular Flow
and Motion, Orlando, Fl, February 2012.
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San
Diego, California, February 2006.
International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April
2002.
International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, April
2001
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, University of Cambridge, UK, pp.
498-507, September 1999.
Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Visegrad, Hungary, July 1999.
European Conference on Computer Vision, University of Cambridge, U.K., April 1996.
Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Nice, France, August 1995.
Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Ile de Berder, France, June 1995.
European Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1994.
Grants and Contracts
A. National/Governmental
University of Louisville
Analysis of peripheral MR Velocity Images for Direct Quantification of pulsatile pressures, Principal
Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Co-PI: M. Keith Sharp, Agency: NSF, 0730467 (1/1/09-12/31/12) -
~$300K
Cardiac Deformation Analysis with 3D SinMod from 3D Tagged MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir
A. Amini, NIH/NHLBI R21-; pending-~$418K
4D MR Imaging of Flow and Hemodynamics in Aortic Stenosis, Principal Investigator: Amir A.
Amini, NIH/NHLBI R21 HL132263; -~$450k. (7/1/2017-6/30/2019)
Support for organization of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,
Melbourne, Australia, April 2017, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, NIH/NIBIB R13-
EB024405-01 $10K (3/10/2017-2/28/2018)
Support for organization of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,
Melbourne, Australia, April 2018, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, NIH/NIBIB R13-
EB026314-01 $10K (3/10/2017-2/28/2018)
Washington University in St. Louis
4-Dimensional LV Tissue Tracking in CAD from Tagged MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A.
Amini, Ph.D., Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-64217 (8/00-7/05) - ~$900K
Methods for Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,
Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-57628 (8/98-7/03) ~$500K
Blood Flow, Contractile, and Metabolic Function in LVH Principal Investigator: Victor
Dávila-Román, M.D., Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-58878, (7/1/00-6/30/05) - $2M
Quantification of Lung Ventilation and Structure by 3He MR Principal Investigator: Dmitriy
Yablonskiy , Ph.D., Agency: NIH/NHLBI R01-HL-7003701 (12/1/02-11/30/07)-$1.9M
Left-Ventricular Remodeling in Aortic Insufficiency. Principal Investigator: Michael Pasque, M.D.,
Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-64869 (7/1/00-6/30/04)-$1.8M
Yale University
Vision Algorithms for Analysis of Tissue and Fluid Deformations from Medical Images. Principal
Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Agency: NSF, IRI-9796207 (6/94-6/97) - $275K
Automated Techniques for Analysis of Cardiac MRI Data, Yale University School of Medicine, NIH
Biomedical Research Science Grant (BRSG) Fluid Fund Research Award, (7/1/92-6/30/93) - $10K
B. Non-Governmental
University of Louisville
4D Flow MR Imaging of CSF in Spinal Cord Injury, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,
Agency: Leona M. and Harry B. Charitable Trust, Period: 2/1/2017-1/31/2018 - $50K, Effort: 5%
4D Flow MR Imaging of CSF in Spinal Cord Injury (year 2 competitive renewal), Principal
Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Agency: Leona M. and Harry B. Charitable Trust, Period:
2/1/2018-1/31/2019 - $50K, Effort: 5%
Improving Accurate SCI Assessment with Cine MRI and Electrophysiology, Principal Investigator:
Maxwell Boakye, M.D., Agency: Paralyzed Veterans Association of America, Period 4/1/2015-
3/31/2017 - $150K, Effort: 10%
Non-invasive Assessment of Intravascular Pressures from MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A.
Amini, Ph.D., Agency: Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Grant Program – Innovative Award,
University of Louisville, Period (7/1/2010-6/30/2012)-$200K
Research Contract and Agreement with Philips Medical Systems to develop and clinically validate
novel MRI methods for imaging of cardiovascular flows and motion. PI: Amir A. Amini
Site: Robley Rex Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Louisville, KY (Dr. Amini has a without
compensation appointment and is on the research staff at the Louisville VA)
Washington University in St. Louis
Equipment Grant to Purchase Advanced Computer Workstation, Principal Investigator: Amir A.
Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/1/97-12/31/97) - $50K
Equipment Grant to Purchase MR Compatible Flow Phantom System and A Sun Microsystems
Advanced Workstation, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/1/99-12/31/99) - $50K
Equipment Grant to Purchase Advanced Computer Workstation, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation,
(1/1/00-12/31/00) - $50K
In-Vivo Assessment of 3-D Myocardial Contractility, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,
Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/1/98-12/31/98) - $100K
Processing and Visualization of MRI Flow Data, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,
Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/99-12/99) - $100K
Hemodynamic Indices in AAA from MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-
Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/00-12/00) - $100K
Methods for Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,
Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (8/1/02-7/31/03) - $100K
Non-Invasive Measurement of Intravascular Pressures from MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A.
Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation (2/1/05-1/31/06 with no-cost extension) - $100K
Non-Invasive Measurement of Intravascular Pressures from MRI (competitive renewal), Principal
Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation (2/1/06-1/31/07) - $100K
Yale University
Automated Techniques for Measurement of Cardiac Motion from MR Tagging, Principal
Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Agency: The Whitaker Foundation, (9/1/94-8/31/98 with 4th
year extension) -$200K
Service
A. Editorial Responsibilities
Co-Editor of Theme 2 (Biomedical Imaging): IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Conference Editorial Board (2015-2018)
Associate Editor: IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 1999-present
Member and Chair of Ad hoc committee for TMI, investigating plagiarism charges [2013]
Associate Editor, Elsevier’s Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2012- present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2014-
Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatic 2016-
Guest Editor: Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing special issue on biomedical image
analysis May 1997
Guest Editor: Special Issue of IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging on Vascular Imaging, April 2005
Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure
from Medical Images, 2003-2006
Acting Associate Editor (2005): Medical Physics
B. Journal Reviewer
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium
IEEE Trans. On Medical Imaging
IEEE Trans. On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Engineering
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology, and Medicine (MAGMA)
Medical Physics
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
ACM Computing Surveys
Image and Vision Computing
ASME Journal of Biomechanics
Medical Image Analysis
AJP: Heart and Circulatory Physiology
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Academic Radiology
C. Grant Review Panels/Study Sections
NSF scientific review panel for Robotics and Human Augmentation, 1999
NIH study section for Diagnostic Imaging, 1998
NSF scientific review panel for Biomedical Engineering, 1999, 2000
Special Emphasis NIH Study Section: RFA on innovations in Biomedical Computing, July 2005
Special Emphasis NIH Study Section: RFA on innovations in Biomedical Computing, June 2004
NHLBI Study Section for RFA on Cellular and Molecular Imaging of the Cardiovascular System,
June 2004
NIH In-vivo Imaging and Bioengineering Research Study Section: June 2007
Reviewer for Austrian Science Fund, FWF
NIH In-vivo Imaging and Bioengineering Research Study Section: October 2007
NIH In-vivo Imaging and Bioengineering Research Study Section: June 2008
Reviewer for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
NIH Challenge grant mail reviewer: June 2009
NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants study section, March 2010
NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants study section, November 2010
NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants study section, March 2011
NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants Study Section, November 2014
NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants Study Section, November 2015
NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants Study Section, November 2016
NIH, CSR, Reviewer for SBIB-G 83 AREA (R15) SRG, October 2015, February 2016, June 2016,
October 2016, February 2017, May 2018
NIH Center for Scientific Review, Clinical and Translational Sciences Imaging Applications study
section, mail reviewer, Sept. 2011
NIH, CSR, Reviewer for ZRG1 SBIB-V (82)S, February 2012
Member of NIH Center for Scientific Review College of Reviewers, Jan. 2010-Dec 2012
Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DO) - “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft “ (DFG)
D. Conference Organization
Conference Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., April
2018, ~ 700 international participants
Associate Editor, IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference (jointly with Body Sensor
Networks), Las Vegas, NV, March 2018
Member of Scientific Program Committee, 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC 2017), Jeju Island, South Korea, July
2017
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, Orlando, Florida, February 2017
Associate Editor and US Liason, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Melbourne,
Australia, April 2017
Associate Editor/Paper selection committee, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,
Prague, Czech Republic, April 2016
Co-Editor of Theme 2 (Biomedical Imaging): IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Conference Editorial Board (2015-2018)
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, San Diego, Florida, February 2016
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, Orlando, Florida, February 2015
Area Chair, WACV 2015: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, Waikolona
Beach, Hawaii, January 2015
Associate Editor/Paper selection committee, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,
Beijing, China, April 2014
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, San Diego, California February 2014
Associate Editor/Paper selection committee, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,
San Francisco, CA, April 2013
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, Orlando, Florida February 2013
Area Chair, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Nice Acropolis,
France, September 2012
Co-Chair of Biomedical Imaging Theme, IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine
and Biology (EMBC) 2012, San Diego, California, Sept. 2012
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, San Diego, California, February 2012
Program Committee, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging,
Monastery Irsee, Germany, July 2011
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, Orlando, Fl, February 2011
Program Committee, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Chicago, IL, April 2011
International Program Committee, IASTED Conference on Imaging and Signal Processing in
Healthcare and Technology (ISPHT 2011), Washington DC, USA, May 16 – 18, 2011.
Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and
Functional Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010
Program Committee, Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Interventions, London, UK,
September 2009
Program Committee, Workshop on multimodal mining for clinical decision support, Medical Image
Computing & Computer Assisted Interventions, London, UK, September 2009
Program Committee, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging,
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA, July 2009
Program Committee, 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, FL, December
2008
Area Chair, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, New York, NY,
September 2008
International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Biomedical
Engineering (BioMed 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007
Program Committee, Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications,
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 2008
Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007
Program Committee, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, The
Netherlands, July 2007
Co-Chair of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) Medical Imaging Symposium, San
Diego, California, Feb. 2007 [the medical imaging symposium consists of 7 parallel conference
attended by some 1200 people in 6 days]
Program Committee, From Statistical Atlases to Personalized Models: Understanding Complex
Diseases in Populations and Individuals, MICCAI 2006 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, October
6, 2006.
Program Committee, DEFORM’06, Workshop on Image Registration in Deformable Environments,
BMVC ’06, Edinburgh, UK, September 8, 2006
Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, New York City, NY, June 2006
Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, New
York City, NY, June 2006
Program Committee, 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, Graz, Austria, May 2006
Program Committee, Workshop on Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, Graz,
Austria, May 2006
International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Biomedical
Engineering (BioMed 2006), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2006
Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Vision, Beijing, China, October 2005
Program Committee, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging,
Glenwood Springs, Colorado, July 2005
Program Committee, Third International Workshop on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the
Heart, Barcelona, Spain, June 2005
Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, San Diego, California, June 2005
International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Biomedical
Engineering (BioMed 2005), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005
Scientific Committee, 8th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTERS Special Session on
Imaging and Image Processing of Dynamic Processes in Biology and Medicine Athens, Greece, July
12-15 2004
Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, Washington, D.C., June 2004
Program Committee, Workshop on Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis,
Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004
International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Biomedical
Engineering (BioMed 2004), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2004
Conference Co-Chairperson, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Conference on
Physiology and Function from Medical Images, San Diego, California, February 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006
Program Committee, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Conference on Physiology
and Function from Multidimensional Images, San Diego, California, February 2002, 2007-
Program Committee, International Workshop on Growth and Motion in 3D Medical Images,
Copenhagen, Denmark June 2002.
Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, August
2002
Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis,
Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001
Scientific Review Panel, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer
Assisted Intervention, Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 2001
Member of Tutorial Board, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer
Assisted Intervention, Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 2001
Program Co-chair, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton
Head, SC, June 2000
Program Co-chair, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, San
Francisco, CA, June 1996
Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, Santa Barbara, CA, June 1998
Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
Santa Barbara, CA, June 1998
Program Committee, International Conference on Scale Space Theory, Utrecht University, The
Netherlands, 1997
Program Committee, IEEE Non-Rigid and Articulated Motion Workshop, Puerto Rico, June 1997
Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Vision, Princeton, NJ, October 1995
Program Committee, Physics-Based Modeling in Computer Vision, MIT, 1995
E. Professional Society Membership
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society [Fellow]
- Member of IEEE EMBS Technical Committee for Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing
(BIIP)
- Chair of Awards subcommittee for BIIP
- Elected to Administrative Committee (Ad Com) of IEEE EMBS for North America: 2016-2018
Member of IEEE Fellow Selection Committee (2016)
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Abstract Reviewer for the ISMRM Conference
SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers)
- Conference Chair 2003-2006, Symposium co-chair 2007, Program Committee 2002-present
F. Service to University
Chair, Department of ECE ABET Review Committee, Spring 2017
Member, Speed School of Engineering Academic Integrity Review Committee, 2008-2010
Member, ECE Dept. Curriculum Committee, 2011-2013
Alternate member, Departmental Faculty Activity Committee, 2016-
University of Louisville Research MRI Center Equipment selection committee, 2010.
Professional or Public Recognition
A. Awards
U.S. patent No. 6757423: Method of processing of tagged MRI data indicative of tissue motion
including 4-D LV tissue tracking, A. Amini and P. Radeva, issued on 6/29/2004, Mail Code:
CCE32434 – Assignee: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO.
U.S. Patent No. 9,076,201: Volumetric Deformable Registration Method for 4-D X-ray Computed
Tomography Images. M. Negahdar, A. Amini, N. Dunlap, S. Woo, issued 2015– Assignee:
University of Louisville Research Foundation.
U.S. Patent No. 9,386,960: Multimodal Cardiac Phantom for Imaging. V. Tavakoli and A. Amini,
issued 2016– Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation.
U. S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 61/946,493: Method And System for Analysis of 3D
Deformations and Regional Function of the Left-Ventricular Myocardium with 3D SinMod, H. Wang
and A. Amini, 2/28/2014 – Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation
U.S. Patent No. 9,620,615: A Combined B-mode / Tissue Doppler Approach for Improved Cardiac
Motion Estimation in Echocardiographic Images. V. Tavakoli and A. Amini, issued 2017 – Assignee:
University of Louisville Research Foundation.
Honorable Mention Paper Award - “Energy- Minimizing Grids for Tracking MR Tags”, P. Shi, A.
Amini, T. Constable and J. Duncan , Proceedings of the 18th Annual Northeast Bioengineering
Conference, Kingston, Rhode Island, April, 1992.
Honorable Mention Poster Award: “Cardiac motion tracking approach with multilevel B-splines and
SinMod from Tagged MRI”, Hui Wang and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on
Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL, February
2011.
Finalist in the Best Student Paper Award – among top 8 from submissions from the entire symposium
[first author, advisee, M.R. Negahdar]: “A 3-D Optical Flow Technique based on Mass Conservation
for Deformable Motion Estimation from 4-D CT Images of the Lung,” M.R. Negahdar and Amir A
Amini, Society for Photooptical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February 2012.
Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2013). The
appointment as an EMBS Distinguished Lecturer is a major Society award, which recognizes
outstanding contributions in both research and education to the EMBS fields of interest.
Elected (by members of IEEE EMBS, North America) to Administrative Committee (Ad Com) of
IEEE EMBS (global leadership team): 2016-2018. With 12,000 members, IEEE EMBS is the largest
Biomedical Engineering society in the world. I am one of 4 elected members, representing North
America.
Elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
(AIMBE), as of 3/2017
B. Honors
At 18, youngest graduate of The University of Massachusetts, Amherst with high honors
[GPA=3.65/4.0, completed in 3 years]
Phi Kappa Phi
Etta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering honor society
Fellow of the IEEE (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) as of Jan. 1, 2007 with the
citation, ``for contributions to cardiovascular imaging and medical image analysis.’’
Elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,
as of 2017 with the citation, “for outstanding contributions to cardiovascular imaging, medical
image analysis, and magnetic resonance imaging of flow and motion.”
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the Midwest 1998
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World 1999, 2005, 2018 -
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America 2000-
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2005-
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Education 2005-
Listed in Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 2007
University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning 2009 faculty favorite -- An
outstanding professor nominated by students
University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning 2011-2012 faculty favorite -- An
outstanding professor nominated by students
Cited as an outstanding reviewer for International Symposium for Biomedical Imaging, Brooklyn,
NY, May 2015.
2016: NIH-NHLBI proposal “4D MR Imaging of Flow and Hemodynamics in Aortic Stenosis”
received a percentile ranking of 2 percentile
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), April 2018, Washington,
D.C., which I Chaired (together with S. Acton) had ~700 registrants and was the second highest
grossing ISBI symposium.
C. External Requests for Tenure and/or Promotion Review Letters or
Professional Society Fellow Letters
Catholic University of America, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Duke
University, George Mason University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic,
Old Dominion University, Rutgers University, University of Western Ontario, Canada, University of
Iowa, University of Houston, University of Michigan, University of Texas, Arlington, Washington
University School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Case Western
Reserve University, Vanderbilt University, University of Paris, University of Sheffield (UK),
Washington University in St. Louis, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Bilkent University (Turkey), Stanford
University, The University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Texas
A&M University, University of Virginia, University of California Irvine, Medical College of
Wisconsin, University of Southern California, Harvard University, Case Western Reserve University,
Tulane University, Stony Brook University, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Erasmus University (The
Netherlands). Siemens Medical Solutions, George Washington University