Milan Sonka

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering, The University of Iowa

Graduate students are deeply involved in interdisciplinary medical image analysis research and work in the Laboratory of Quantitative Medical Image Analysis. Students work very closely with faculty from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, the most active cooperation is with Departments of Internal Medicine, Radiology, and Psychiatry.

Current Students
- Fei Zhao Image based + genetic identification of earliest signs of atherosclerotic disease
- Mona Haeker Analysis of atherosclerosis from ultrasound, methodsd for optimal detectionj of single and multiple n-D surfaces
- Kit Lee
- Yin Yin
- Senthil Premraj
- Richard Downe
- Matt Thomas
Associate Research Engineer + Adjunct Associate Professor
- Andreas Wahle, Angiography/IVUS data fusion, 3D echocardiography
Visiting Researchers and Postdocs
- Ruben Medina (8/2001 - 8/2002)
- Boudewijn Lelieveldt (10-11/1999 & 1-5/2002)
- Kalman Palagyi, 3D skeletonization, discrete geometry, pulmonary image analysis (8/2002-6/2003)
- Petr Felkel (6/2003 - 6/2004) - postdoc
- Reinhard Beichel (distant member - back in Graz, Austria) - Virtual liver surgery, liver segmentation
- Bram van Ginneken (2/2007-2/2008)
- Honghai Zhang 3D Doppler ultrasound analysis, Active Appearance Models in cardiovascular image analysis
- Meindert Niemeijer - postdoc
- Gouyuan Liang - postdoc
Former Students
- Xiangmin Zhang, image segmentation, intravascular ultrasound, coronary angiography, tissue characterization.
- Wonkyu Park, fuzzy logic image interpretation, pulmonary airway tree detection.
- Weidong Liang, image segmentation, image analysis systems, Motif programming, intracardiac ultrasound.
- Nicolae Duta, 2D and 3D shape analysis, MR brain image segmentation and interpretation.
- Renuka Uppaluri, pulmonary tissue classification, medical image analysis.
- Anthony Krivanek, genetic algorithms, shape analysis.
- Xiang Zhang, medical image processing.
- Zeng Chaohuang, Cardiac image analysis, image processing.
- Robert Stefancik, Intracardiac ultrasound, MR angiography.
- Marek Brejl, 3D edge detection, Automated learning of border detection criteria from examples.
- Shaolong Wang Intracardiac echo analysis
- Ryan Long Pulmonary CT analysis
- Juerg Tschirren Brachial ultrasound analysis, Pulmonary CT analysis - bronchial and vascular trees
- Steve Mitchell, Active Appearance Models, cardiovascular image analysis (Photos)
- Kang Li 3D graph search, Pulmonary image analysis environment
- Aviv Hod 3D texture analysis in pulmonary CT
- Nick Bray Cell image analysis
- Mark Olszewski Angiography/IVUS data fusion
- Xiangwei Zhang Pulmonary CT analysis - pulmonary nodules
- Greg Gallardo Analysis and visualization of vascular microscopy images, cellular motility and shape analysis
- Fuxing Yang Vascular MR segmentation, vulnerable plaque analysis, cellular motility and shape analysis
- Soydan Cinar, IVUS image analysis

Lab members January 2003

Lab members 2000-2001

Milan Sonka
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242, USA

phone: (319)-335-6052, fax: (319)-335-6028, e-mail:milan-sonka[AT]uiowa.edu, http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu/~sonka/

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, The University of Iowa

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering, The University of Iowa