Xiaodong Wu
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
3318 Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
Telephone: (319) 335-6490
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
W 189Z Westlawn
Telephone: (319) 356-2253
Joined the College of Engineering: 2005
Education: Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Notre Dame, 2002
M.S., Computer Science, Peking University, 1995
B.S., Computer Science, Peking University, 1992
Special Fields of Knowledge:
Present Research Interests: Algorithm Design, Analysis, and Implementation; Geometric Optimization; Computer-aided Medical Surgery and Diagnosis; Biomedical Image Analysis; Data Mining; and Bioinformatics.
Selected Publications:
- X. Wu, Efficient Algorithms for the Optimal-Ratio Region Detection Problems in Discrete Geometry with Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4288, Springer Verlag, Proc. of the 17th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), Kolkata, India, Dec. 18-20, 2006, pp. 289-299.
- X. Wu, D. Chen, K. Li, M. Sonka, The Layered Net Surface Problems in Discrete Geometry and Medical Image Segmentation, accepted as an invited paper to the Special Issue of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications on Selected Papers from the 16th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC’05), December 2006.
- D. Chen, X. Hu, S. Luan, C. Wang, and X. Wu, Mountain Reduction, Block Matching, and Applications in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, accepted as an invited paper to the Special Issue of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications on Selected Papers from the 21st ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG’05).
- K. Li, X. Wu, D.Z. Chen, and M. Sonka, Optimal Surface Segmentation in Volumetric
Images -- A Graph-Theoretic Approach, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 28(1)(2006). - D. Chen, X. Hu, S. Luan, X. Wu, and C. Yu, Optimal Terrain Construction Problems and Applications in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, an invited paper to the Special Issue of Algorithmica on Selected Papers from the 10th European Symp. on Algorithms (ESA), 42(3-4)(2005), pp. 265-288.
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).