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I am teaching a new course in Spring 2008:  ECS 289H, Advanced Image Processing and Analysis.  UCD grad students interested in dealing with imaging data should check it out!

New paper: Abnormal Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Cognitively Normal Elderly Subjects With Hypertension.  This is one of the results from Weiying DaiÕs PhD project on sophisticated techniques for measuring blood flow in the brain non-invasively.

Cathy and I recently got married and went on a honeymoon in China.  Here are some wedding photos and some honeymoon photos.

New paper: Cerebral ventricular changes associated with transitions between normal cognitive function, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia.  This is the third and final paper about correlations between ventricular expansion, cardiovascular risk factors, and dementia in the Cardiovascular Health Study.

I recently developed Localized Components Analysis with Nina Amenta and her grad student, Dan Alcantara.  It is a new method for intuitive, efficient shape analysis that can be applied to a wide variety of objects—including brain regions.

Pete Harris, a member of my lab, published two papers recently: Mild Cognitive Impairment as a Concept and Clinical Entity appeared in Prized Writing, a UC Davis journal of undergraduate technical essays; and ItÕs the Thought that Counts: How Scientists Are Working to Prevent Dementia appeared in The Voice, a UCD undergraduate health journal.

Three members of my lab made presentations about their research projects at the 2007 UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference.  Their abstracts are here.

Gautam Prasad, an undergraduate researcher in my lab, has accepted a graduate position in the CS department at UCLA, where he will work in the Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI).  Way to go, Gautam!

Christmas photos are now on line.

Cathy and I went to Costa Rica recently.  Here are some photos.

Gautam Prasad, an undergrad in my lab, started a blog to chart his progress as he writes software to do shape-based brain segmentation techniques.  There are MPEGs showing his image segmentation program in action.  Check it out!

I am teaching ECS 189H: Introduction to Image Processing and Analysis, in the Winter 2007 quarter at UC Davis.  It is a new class-- take it!

Cathy and I ran the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday July 30.  We finished in 4:10.  Back in April we ran the Santa Cruz Half Marathon and finished in 1:48.  Here are some photos from both.

New paper: Mapping Ventricular Changes Related to Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Large Community-Based Cohort.  This paper has cool graphics showing patterns of brain changes related to aging and dementia.

New papers: Acceleration of cerebral ventricular expansion in the Cardiovascular Health Study and Ventricular volume and dementia progression in the Cardiovascular Health Study .  These describe relationships between brain structure and cognitive decline in a large study of aging.

I accepted a faculty position at UC Davis.  I have a full-time appointment as Assistant Professor in the Neurology Department, School Of Medicine (Adjunct Series), and I will soon have a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering.  I plan to work closely with members of the IDEA lab on geriatric image analysis problems.

I am on the program committee of the ICCV workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications.  Check it out if you are going to ICCV!

West Virginia Photos

New technical report: Atlas-Based Hippocampus Segmentation In AlzheimerÕs Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. (CMU RI tech report CMU-RI-TR-04-53).  It summarizes my main research project from early in my postdoc.  Part of this was published in NeuroImage.

New paper: A Hybrid Object-Level/Pixel-Level Framework For Shape-based Recognition (BMVC 2004).  This paper talks about an extension to the basic shape-based object recognition approach in my thesis.

New paper: Discriminative MR Image Feature Analysis for Automatic Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease  Classification.  (CMU RI tech report and MICCAI Õ04).  The title is pretty self-explanatory.

New paper: Shape-based Recognition of Wiry Objects (PAMI).  This is supposed to be the main journal article summing up the basic algorithm and experiments detailed in my thesis.

Photos from graduation

Concerned Kitty page!

Started helping out with maintaining The Computer Vision Home Page

Re-designed web site.  Check it out!

Created WORD, the Wiry Object Recognition Database

Software: Microsoft Office

Page for the new ADRC Neuroimaging Journal Club

AppleMark

Page on my current research in medical image analysis