Chenyang Xu's Recent Publications

Chenyang's publications on Google Scholar
    Journal articles

  1. C. Xu and J. L. Prince, "Snakes, Shapes, and Gradient Vector Flow," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 7(3), pp. 359-369, March 1998 (JHU-ECE TR96-15). [.ps (4.1MB), .ps.gz (0.9MB), .pdf (0.4MB)]. Click here to see GVF demo, download Matlab and CMEX source code, and find out more information related to GVF.
    Remarks: By March 2005, this paper has over 140 citations in archival journals and conference proceedings listed in Science Citation Index (SCI) and is ranked #7 among more than 1,200 SCI papers citing the original active contour paper by Kass, Witkin, and Terzopolous. Also as of May 2005, it receives 305 citations as listed by Google Scholar, and is ranked #8 among more than 2790 publications citing the original active contour paper by Kass et al.

  2. D. L. Pham, J. L. Prince, A. P. Dagher, and C. Xu, "An Automated Technique for Statistical Characterization of Brain Tissues in Magnetic Resonance Imaging," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 11(8), pp. 1189-1211, 1997. [.ps (6.8MB), .ps.gz (1.6MB)].

  3. C. Xu and J. L. Prince, "Generalized Gradient Vector Flow External Forces for Active Contours," Signal Processing --- An International Journal, 71(2), pp. 131-139, December 1998. [.pdf (0.5MB)].

  4. C. Xu, D. L. Pham, M. E. Rettmann, D. N. Yu, and J. L. Prince, "Reconstruction of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Magnetic Resonance Images," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 18(6), pp. 467-480, June, 1999. [.pdf (0.9MB)]. See all the journal papers that cited this paper compiled from Science Citation Index.

  5. M. E. Rettmann, X. Han, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "Automated Sulcal Segmentation Using Watersheds on the Cortical Surface," NeuroImage, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 329-344, Feb. 2002.

  6. X. Han, C. Xu, U. Braga-Neto, and J. L. Prince, "Topology Correction in Brain Cortex Segmentation Using a Multiscale, Graph-based Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 109-121, Feb. 2002.

  7. X. Han, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "A Topology Preserving Level Set Method for Geometric Deformable Models," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 755-768, June 2003. [.pdf (1.8MB)]

  8. X. Han, D. Pham, D. Tosun, M. E. Rettmann, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "CRUISE: Cortiacal Reconstruction Using Implicit Surface Evolution," NeuroImage, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 997-1012, 2004.

  9. D. Tosun, M. E. Rettmann, X. Han, X. Tao, C. Xu, S. M. Resnik, D. Pham, and J. L. Prince, "Cortical Surface Segmentation and Mapping," NeuroImage, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. S108-S118, 2004.

    10. Journal articles currently in preparation

  10. C. Xu, A. Yezzi, and J. L. Prince, "On the Relationship between Parametric and Geometric Active Contours". (see the technical report)

    11. Invited book chapters

  11. D. L. Pham, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "Current Methods in Medical Image Segmentation," Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 315-338, 2000. [.ps (2.3MB) .ps.gz (0.4MB)].

  12. C. Xu and J. L. Prince, "Gradient Vector Flow Deformable Models," Handbook of Medical Imaging, pp. 159-169, edited by I. Bankman, Academic Press, 2000. [.pdf (1.7MB)], [book info].

  13. C. Xu, D. L. Pham, and J. L. Prince, "Medical Image Segmentation Using Deformable Models," Handbook of Medical Imaging -- Volume 2: Medical Image Processing and Analysis, pp. 129-174, edited by J.M. Fitzpatrick and M. Sonka, SPIE Press, May 2000. [.pdf (5.6MB), .ps.gz (1.9MB), book info]. (Note: this chapter is a tutorial/review of deformable models)

  14. X. Han, C. Xu, and J.L. Prince, "A Topology Preserving Geometric Deformable Model and Its Application in Brain Cortical Surface Reconstruction," Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision and Graphics, S. Osher and N. Paragios (eds.), Springer Verlag, August, 2002.

    15. Conference papers

  15. C. Xu, D. L. Pham, and J. L. Prince, "Finding the Brain Cortex Using Fuzzy Segmentation, Isosurfaces, and Deformable Surface Models," Proceedings of the XVth International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI'97), pp. 399-404, June 1997. [.ps (1.3MB), .ps.gz (0.4MB)].

  16. C. Xu and J. L. Prince, "A Generalized Gradient Vector Flow for Active Contour Models," 1997 Conf. Info. Sci. Syst. (CISS'97), pp. 885-890, March 1997. (Request for paper copy or see the journal paper of this work)

  17. C. Xu and J. L. Prince, "Gradient Vector Flow: A New External Force for Snakes," IEEE Proc. Conf. on Comp. Vis. Patt. Recog. (CVPR'97), pp. 66-71, June 1997. [.pdf (2.5MB), .ps (2.0MB), .ps.gz (0.4MB)].

  18. J. L. Prince and C. Xu, "A New External Force Model for Snakes," The Ninth Image and Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing (IMDSP) Workshop, pp. 30-31, 1996. [.ps (0.3MB), .ps.gz (0.05MB)].

  19. J. L. Prince and C. Xu, "Nonconservative Force Models in Active Geometry," in Proc. of the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing (IMDSP) Workshop, pp. 139-142, 1998.

  20. C. Xu, D. L. Pham, M. E. Etemad, D. N. Yu, and J. L. Prince, "Reconstruction of the Central Layer of the Human Cerebral Cortex from MR images," in Proc. of the First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI'98), pp. 482-488, 1998. [.ps (7MB), .ps.gz (1.4MB)].

  21. C. Xu, D. L. Pham, and J. L. Prince, "Reconstruction of the Human Cortical Surface from MR Images," 4th International conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 7-12, 1998, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; NeuroImage 7(4), pp. 715, May 1998. [.ps (2.7MB), .ps.gz (0.5MB)].

  22. C. Xu, M. E. Etemad, D. N. Yu, D. L. Pham, and J. L. Prince, "A Spherical Map for Cortical Geometry," 4th International conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 7-12, 1998, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; NeuroImage 7(4), pp. 734, May 1998. [.ps (1.6MB), .ps.gz (0.3MB)].

  23. M. E. Etemad, C. Xu, D. L. Pham, and D. N. Yu, and J. L. Prince, "On Automated Segmentation of Buried Gyri," 5th International conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 1999.

  24. M. E. Rettmann, C. Xu, D. L. Pham, and J. L. Prince, "Automated Segmentation of Sulcal Regions", the Second International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI'99), pp. 158-167, September 1999.

  25. D. Yu, C. Xu, M. E. Rettmann, D. L. Pham, and J. L. Prince, "Quantitative Validation of a Deformable Cortical Surface Model", Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, 2000.

  26. X. Han, M. E. Rettmann, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "Morphology on Triangle Meshes Using Geodesic Distance", Proc. of 34th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'00), March 2000.

  27. C. Xu and J. L. Prince, "Global Optimality of Gradient Vector Flow", Proc. of 34th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'00), March 2000. [.pdf (0.7MB), .ps (0.6MB), .ps.gz (0.1MB)]

  28. D. Yu, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "A New Interactive Surface Editing Tool for Generating Truth Models of the Human Cortical Surface," to appear in Proc. of 6th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain.

  29. C. Xu, X. Han, and J. L. Prince, "Improving Cortical Surface Reconstruction Accuracy Using an Anatomically Consistent Gray Matter Representation," to appear in Proc. of 6th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain.

  30. C. Xu, A. Yezzi, Jr., and J. L. Prince, "On the Relationship between Parametric and Geometric Active Contours", in Proc. of 34th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 483-489, October 2000. [.pdf (0.2MB)]

  31. D. Tosun, M. E. Rettmann, X. Tao, X. Han, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "Calculation of Human Cerebral Cortical Thickness on Opposing Sulcal Banks" 7th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain (HBM), June 2001.

  32. C. Xu, A. Yezzi, Jr., and J. L. Prince, "A Summary of Geometric Level-Set Analogues for a General Class of Parametric Active Contour and Surface Models", in Proc. of 2001 IEEE Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision (VLSM 2001), pp. 104-111, July 2001. [.pdf (0.3MB)]

  33. X. Han, C. Xu, U. Braga-Neto, and J. L. Prince, "Topology Correction for Brain Cortex Segmentation," the XVIIth International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI'01), pp 395-401, Springer-Verlag, 2001.

  34. X. Han, C. Xu, M. E. Rettmann, and J. L. Prince, "Automated Segmentation Editing for Cortical Surface Reconstruction," Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Feb. 2001.

  35. X. Han, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "A Topology Preserving Deformable Model Using Level Sets", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2001), Kauai, Hawii, Dec. 2001, pp. II 765-770. [.pdf (0.3MB) ].

  36. X. Han, C. Xu, D. Tosun, and J. L. Prince, "Cortical Surface Reconstruction Using a Topology Preserving Geometric Deformable Model," 5th IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA2001), Kauai, Hawaii, Dec. 2001, pp. 213-220. [.pdf (1.4 MB) ].

  37. D. L. Pham, X. Han, M. E. Rettmann, C. Xu, D. Tosun, S. Resnick, and J.L. Prince, "New Approaches for Measuring Changes in the Cortical Surface Using an Automatic Reconstruction Algorithm," SPIE Medical Imaging 2002 Conf., San Diego, CA, Feb. 2002. [.pdf (1.1MB)].

  38. C. Xu, X. Huang, A. Krishnan, and S. Samant, " An Automated Image-based Method for Multi-Leaf Collimator Positioning Verification in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy," International Conference on Diagnostic Imaging and Analysis, August 2002.

  39. X. Han, C. Xu, and J. L. Prince, "A 2D Moving Grid Geometric Deformable Model", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2003), June 2003, pp. I: 153-160.

  40. X. Huang, Y. Sun, D. Metaxas, F. Sauer, and C. Xu, "Hybrid Image Registration based on Configural Matching of Scale-Invariant Salient Region Features," in 2nd IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration, IVR'04, in conjunction with CVPR'04, Washington D.C., July 2004.

  41. Y. Sun, F. S. Azar, C. Xu, G. Hayam, A. Preiss, N. Rahn, and F. Sauer, "Registration of High-Resolution 3D Atrial Images with Electroanatomical Cardiac Mapping: Evaluation of Registration Methodology", SPIE Medical Imaging 2005.

  42. C. Li, C. Xu, C. Gui, and M. Fox, "Level Set Evolution Without Reinitialization: A New Variational Formulation", CVPR'05, San Diego, July 2005.

    43. Technical reports

  43. C. Xu and J. L. Prince, "Snakes, Shapes, and Gradient Vector Flow," JHU-ECE TR96-15, [html]. Click here to see GVF demo. Note: this is a longer version of the journal paper appeared in IEEE Trans. on Image Processing.

  44. C. Xu, A. Yezzi, and J. L. Prince, "On the Relationship between Parametric and Geometric Active Contours", JHU-ECE TR99-14, December 3, 1999. [.ps (2.3MB), .ps.gz (0.6MB)].

    PhD thesis

  • C. Xu, Deformable Models with Application to Human Cerebral Cortex Reconstruction from Magnetic Resonance Images, Johns Hopkins University, Baltiomre, MD, 21218, USA, January, 1999. [.pdf (6MB)].

    Patent

  • "A Novel Circuit Design for Three-way Clinical Intercom Circuits", W. Du and C. Xu, Patent number: 88 2 16191.1, Patent date: 11/10/1988, PROC.

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