Xiaoning Qian's Profile
Xiaoning Qian, Ph.D.
Post-doc Research Associate
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8042
Tel: (1) 203-785-2428 Fax: (1) 203-737-4273
Email:
xiaoning.qian at yale.edu
Brief Biography
I am currently working as a post-doc research associate
in the
Image Processing and Analysis Group (IPAG),
Yale University.
I am working on ultrasound image segmentation and shape-based image databases using
statistical shape analysis
. My advisor is
Prof. Hemant Tagare.
I joined Yale Graduate School in Fall 1999, received my Ph.D. degree in 2005.
I received my B.Eng and M.Eng. degree from the Depa
rtment of Electronic Engineering,
Shanghai Jiao-Tong University , Shanghai, China.
Research Interests
My research interests are in
general signal and image processing, information retrieval in multimedia databases, computer vision, pattern recognition and statistical learni
ng, particularly when they are used in medical
applications. The main focus of my research includes robust boundary finding algorithms and shape-based similarity retrievals in medical image databases.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University:
- Numerical Methods (1998, 1999)
Journal Club, IPAG, Yale University:
-
Statistical Learning Journal Club (Summer 2002)
Selected Publications
-
Xiaoning Qian and Hemant D. Tagare,
"Overcoming Dropout While Segmenting Cardiac Ultrasound Images,"
to appear in IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2006.
- Xiaoning Qian , Hemant D. Tagare,
"Optimal Embedding for Shape Indexing in Medical Image Databases
,"
in MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted
Intervention), 2005.
- Hemant D. Tagare, Xiaoning Qian, Robert Fulbright, Rodney Long, and Sameer Ant
ani,
" Shape Based Retrieval in NHANES II
,"
in 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (Invited), 2004.
- Xiaoning Qian and Hemant D. Tagare,
"Optimal Indexing Trees for Medical Image Databases
,"
in IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2002.