Jing Yang

Research Assistant

Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520, USA

Tel: (1) 203-785-4905    Fax: (1) 203-737-4273

Email: j.yang@yale.edu

Brief Biography
    I am currently a 5th year graduate student in the Ph.D. Program in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University. I am working on 3D image analysis in the Image Processing and Analysis Group (IPAG) , my advisor is Prof. James Duncan. I joined Yale Graduate School in Fall 1999, received a M.S. degree in Fall 2000 and a M.Phil. degree in Fall 2002. I received my B.Eng degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests
    My research interests are in general image analysis and processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, particularly when they are used in medical applications. The main focus of my research is statistical shape analysis and modeling for image segmentation.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Yale University:
    - Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis (Fall 2004)
    - Digital Image Processing (Fall 2002, Fall 2001)
    - Biomedical Engineering II (Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004)
    - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering (Fall 2003)
    - Advanced Topics in Medical Imaging and Computer Vision (Fall 2003)

Tutoring positions, Yale University:
- Yale College Math and Science Tutoring Program (Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004)

Jing Yang and James S. Duncan,
"3D Image Segmentation of Deformable Objects with Shape-Appearance Joint Prior Models Using Level Sets,"
to appear in Medical Image Analysis, 2004.
Jing Yang , Lawrence H. Staib, and James S. Duncan,
" Neighbor-Constrained Segmentation with Level Set Based 3D Deformable Models,"
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 23, No. 8, August 2004, 940-948.
James S. Duncan, Xenophon Papademetris, Jing Yang , Marcel Jackowski, Xiaolan Zeng, and Lawrence H. Staib,
" Geometric Strategies for Neuroanatomic Analysis from MRI,"
to appear in Neuroimage, 2004.

Jing Yang , Xenophon Papademetris, Lawrence H. Staib, Robert T. Schultz, and James S. Duncan,
"Functional Brain Image Analysis Using Joint Function-Structure Priors ,"
to appear in MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention), 2004.
Jing Yang and James S. Duncan,
"Joint Prior Models of Neighboring Objects for 3D Image Segmentation ,"
to appear in IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2004.
Jing Yang , Hemant D. Tagare, Lawrence H. Staib, and James S. Duncan,
" Segmentation of 3D Deformable Objects with Level Set Based Prior Models ,"
to appear in IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2004.
Jing Yang and James S. Duncan,
" 3D Image Segmentation of Deformable Objects with Shape-Appearance Joint Prior Models ,"
MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention), vol.1, 573-580,2003.
Jing Yang , Lawrence H. Staib, and James S. Duncan,
" Neighbor-Constrained Segmentation with 3D Deformable Models,"
IPMI (Information Processing in Medical Imaging) 198-209, 2003.
Jing Yang , Lawrence H. Staib, and James S. Duncan,
" Statistical Neighbor Distance Influence in Active Contours,"
MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention), vol.1, 588-596, 2002.