Chenyang Xu's Research Home Page

My research publications	Gradient Vector Flow: A new external force for active contour and deformable surface
My thesis proposal on brain mapping using Active (Deformable) surface models (the image is a heart image!). (gzipped postcript)	Cortical surface reconstruction
A brain movie	Computing geometric quantities for cortical surface
Johns Hopkins University brain research links	Brain mapping on the internet

Conference Announcements

• Medical Imaging'98, Summary due date: 4 August 1997, Manuscript due date: 26 January 1998.
• IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, June 1-4, 1998, Halifax, Canada. Abstracts due Nov. 15, 1997, camera ready due date: Apr. 2, 1998.
• 3rd IEEE Symposium on IMAGE, SPEECH, NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS (ISNLS), Wahington, DC, May 21-33, 1998. Summary due date: Dec. 15, 1997, camera ready due date: March 31, 1998.
• IEEE 1998 International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL, USA. Oct. 4-7, 1998. Paper proposals due: Jan. 16, 1998, camera-ready papers due: Jun. 5, 1998.
• 4th International conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 7-12, 1998, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis June 26-27, 1998, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
• First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Oct. 11-13, 1998, Boston MA, USA.
• 16th International Conference On Information Processing In Medical Imaging , Visegrad, Hungary, June 28 - July 2, 1999.
• The Utrecht List of Conferences in Medical Imaging and Computer Vision

General Reference

• Variational Calculus and Optimal Control, Springer, John L. Troutman, Springer-Verlag, 1996
• Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Manfredo Perdigao do Carmo, Prentice-Hall, 1976.
• Elements of differential geometry, Richard S. Millman and George D. Parker, Prentice-Hall, 1977.
• Numerical methods for partial differential equations, William F. Ames, 3rd ed., Academic Press, 1992.
• Algorithms in C, Robert Sedgewick, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1998 --- fundamentals, data structures, sorting, searching.
• The Finite Element Method --- A First Approach, Alan J. Davies, Oxford Press, 1980.
• Robot Vision, Berthold K. P. Horn, MIT Press, 1986.
• Introduction to Stochastic processes, Erhan Cinlar, Prentice-Hall, 1975.
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, J. Vlissides, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• Scientific and Engineering C++: An Introduction with Advanced Techniques and Examples, J. J. Barton and L. R. Nackman, Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Special Interest Reference

• Sethian, J. A, ``A fast marching levset method for monotonically advancing fronts,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 93, 4, pp. 1591-1595, 1996.
• Adalsteinsson, Sethian, ``The fast construction of extension velocities in level set methods,'' J. Compu. Phys., 148, pp. 2-22, 1999.
• Adalsteinsson, D., and Sethian, J.A., ``A fast level set method for propogating interfaces,'' J. Compu. Phys., 118, 2, pp. 269-277, 1995.

Science Citation Index Citations for Papers of Interest

• M. Kass, A. Witkin, and D. Terzopoulos, ``Snakes - Active Contour Models'' International Journal of Computer Vision, 1(4): 321-331, 1987. (citations)
• S. Osher and J. A. Sethian, "Fronts Propagating with Curvature-Dependent Speed: Algorithms Based on Hamilton-Jacobi Formulations," Journal of Computational Physics, 79(1): 12-49, 1988. (citations)
• R. Malladi, J. A. Sethian, B. C. Vemuri, "Shape modeling with front propagation: A level set approach," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 17(2): 158-175, Feburary 1995. (citations)
• V. Caselles, F. Catte, T. Coll, et al., "A Geometric Model for Active Contours in Image Processing," Numerische Mathematik, 66(1): 1-31 October 1993. (citations)
• T. F. Cootes, C. J. Taylor, D. H. Cooper, et al., " Active Shape Models - Their Training and Application," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 61(1): 38-59, January 1995. (citations)