Conference Papers

Conference Abstracts

Technical Reports

Publications

Book Chapters and Journal Papers

1. Pingkun Yan, Sheng Xu, Baris Turkbey, and Jochen Kruecker, Discrete Deformable Model Guided by Partial Active Shape Model for TRUS Image Segmentation, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, accepted.
2. Pingkun Yan, Ashraf A. Kassim, Weijia Shen, and Mubarak Shah, Modeling Interaction for Segmentation of Neighboring Structures, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 252-262, March 2009.
3. Ashraf A. Kassim and Pingkun Yan, Medical Image Processing, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, B.W. Wah (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2008.
4. Pingkun Yan, Xiaobo Zhou, Mubarak Shah, and Stephen Wong, Automatic Segmentation of High Throughput RNAi Fluorescent Cellular Images, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 109-117, Jan 2008. [Demo Program (.zip)]
5. Orkun Alatas, Pingkun Yan, and Mubarak Shah, Spatiotemporal Regularity Flow (SPREF): Its Estimation and Applications, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 584-589, May 2007.
6. Pingkun Yan and Ashraf A. Kassim, Medical image segmentation using minimal path deformable models with implicit shape priors, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 677-684, Oct 2006.
7. Pingkun Yan and Ashraf A. Kassim, MRA image segmentation with capillary active contours, Medical Image Analysis, vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 317-329, June 2006.
8. Ashraf A. Kassim, Pingkun Yan, Wei Siong Lee, and Kuntal Sengupta, Motion Compensated Lossy-to-Lossless Compression of 4D Medical Images Using Integer Wavelet Transforms, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 132-138, March 2005.

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

1. Pingkun Yan, Sheng Xu, Baris Turkbey, and Jochen Kruecker, Segmenting TRUS video sequences using local shape statistics, SPIE Medical Imaging 2010: Visualization, Image-guided Procedures and Modeling, San Diego, CA 2010.
2. Sheng Xu, Baris Turkbey, Jochen Kruecker, Julia Locklin, Pingkun Yan, Peter A. Pinto, Peter L. Choyke, Bradford J. Wood, Multiparametric MRI-pathologic correlation of prostate cancer using tracked biopsies, SPIE Medical Imaging 2010: Visualization, Image-guided Procedures and Modeling, San Diego, CA 2010.
3. Pingkun Yan, Sheng Xu, Baris Turkbey, and Jochen Kruecker, Optimal search guided by partial active shape model for prostate segmentation in TRUS images, SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-guided Procedures and Modeling, Orlando, Florida 2009.
4. Pingkun Yan, Saad M. Khan, and Mubarak Shah, Learning 4D Action Feature Models for Arbitrary View Action Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska 2008.
5. Taylor Goodhart, Pingkun Yan, and Mubarak Shah, Action Recognition using Spatio-Temporal Regularity based Features, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, Nevada 2008.
6. Pingkun Yan, Saad M. Khan, and Mubarak Shah, 3D Model based Object Class Detection in An Arbitrary View, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2007.
7. Saad M. Khan, Pingkun Yan, and Mubarak Shah, A Homographic Framework for the Fusion of Multi-view Silhouettes, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2007.
8. Pingkun Yan and Mubarak Shah, Segmentation of Neighboring Structures by Modeling Their Interaction, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), with CVPR 2006.
9. Pingkun Yan and Ashraf A. Kassim, MRA image segmentation with capillary active contour, In Proceedings of Int. Conf. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 1, pp. 51-58, 2005. (MICCAI NDI Student Award)
10. Pingkun Yan, Weijia Shen, Ashraf A. Kassim, and Mubarak Shah, Segmentation of neighboring organs in medical image with model competition, In Proceedings of Int. Conf. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 1, pp. 270-277, 2005.
11. R. Medina., A. Bravo, P. Windyga, J. Toro, P. Yan, and G. Onik, A 2-D Active Appearance Model For Prostate Segmentation in Ultrasound Images, In Proceedings of 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2005.
12. Pingkun Yan and Ashraf A. Kassim, Lossless and near-lossless motion-compensated 4D medical image compression, In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on BioMedical Circuits & Systems (BioCAS), Singapore, December 2004.
13. Pingkun Yan and Ashraf A. Kassim, Medical image segmentation with minimal path deformable models, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2733-2736, Singapore, October 2004.
14. Nenghai Yu, Pingkun Yan, Zhengkai Liu and Rong Zhang, "Overview of MPEG-4: concept and architecture," In Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Multimedia Technology (Chinese), pp. 154-160, Beijing, China, 2000.

Peer Reviewed Conference Abstracts

1. Jochen Kruecker, Sheng Xu, Pingkun Yan, Baris Turkbey, Peter A. Pinto, Bradford J. Wood, "Clinical experience with realtime TRUS/MRI fusion-guided targeted prostate biopsy," In Proc. 95th Meeting of Radiological Soc. of North America (RSNA), Chicago, IL, 2009.
2. Eric J. Leach, Pingkun Yan, David J. Rippe, Nicholas Avgeropoulos, Shandong Wu, Mubarak Shah, “A Knowledge-Based Framework for Quantifying Enhancing Brain Tissue,” In Proc. Joint Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors, New Orleans, Louisiana 2009.

Technical Reports

1. Orkun Alatas, Pingkun Yan, and Mubarak Shah, Spatiotemporal Regularity Flow (SPREF): Its Estimation and Applications, Technical Report #122606, Computer Vision Lab, University of Central Florida, 2007.