Research

Understanding, analysis, and compression of medical images and signals; multimodality image registration and validation; computer-aided diagnosis. Feature selection in pattern recognition and image processing.

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Selected Publications

• Markowitz, Z. and M. Loew, “Manual vs. computer-based stereology – Understanding the tradeoffs,” Proc. Northeast Bioengineering Conf., March 2003, in press.
• Schmanske, B. and M. Loew, “Bitmap-channelized Hotelling observer for assessing lossy-compressed images,” Proc. SPIE, 5034, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, ed. by D. Chakraborty and E. Krupinski, in press, 2003.
• Markowitz, Z. and M. Loew, “Analysis of the tradeoffs between computer-based stereology and manual stereology,” Proc. SPIE, 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing, ed by M .Sonka and M. Fitzpatrick, in press, 2003
• Rodriguez-Carranza, C. and M. Loew, “Design and evaluation of an automatic procedure for detection of large misregistrations in medical images,” Proc. SPIE, 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing, ed. by M. Sonka and M. Fitzpatrick, in press, 2003.
• Ling, S-H, R. Summers, M. Loew, C. McCollough and C. Johnson, “Computer-Aided Detection of Polyps in a Colon Phantom: Effect of Scan Orientation, Polyp Size, Collimation, and Dose,” RSNA ’02, Paper No. 666, Chicago, Dec. 2002.
• Schmanske, B. and M. Loew, “An efficient observer model for assessing signal detection performance of lossy-compressed images,” Proc. Medical Image Computilng and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2002, II, ed. by T. Dohi and R. Kikinis, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp. 647-654.
• Ling, S-H., R. Summers, M. Loew, C. McCollough and C. Johnson, “Computer-Aided Detection of Polyps in a Colon Phantom: Effect of Scan Orientation, Polyp Size, Collimation, and Dose,” Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 26(6), Nov. 2002, pp. 1013-1018.
• Skopec, M., J. Price, N. Guardala, M. Loew and M. Moscovitrch, “Glow curve analysis applied to the discrimination of X-ray versus proton irradiation,” Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 101(1-4), 2002, pp. 99-102.
• A. I. Penn and M. H. Loew, "Estimating fractal dimension with fractal interpolation function models," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, Vol. 16, No. 6, December 1997, pp. 930-937.
• R. Mia, M. H. Loew, K. A. Wear, and R. F. Wagner, "Quantitative estimation of scatterer spacing from backscattered ultrasound signals using the complex cepstrum,"Proc. Information Processing in Medical Imaging, ed. by J. Duncan and G. Gindi. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997, pp. 513-518.
• H. J. Holz and M.H. Loew, "Multi-class classifier-independent feature analysis, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 18, Nos. 11-13, 1997, pp. 1219-1224.
• C. E. Rodriguez-Carranza and M. H. Loew, "Global optimization of weighted mutual information for multimodality image registration," Proc. SPIE, Vol. 3661, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing; K. M. Hanson, ed., pp. 89-96.
• L-y. Hsu and M. H. Loew, "Fully automatic 3D feature-based registration of multi-modality medical images,"Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 19, Issues 1 and 2, January 2001, pp. 75-85.
• D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, M. Loew, I. Gannot, and A. Gandjbakhche, "Analytical solutions for time-resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging in a turbid medium such as tissue,"J. Optical Soc. Am. A, Vol. 18, No. 7, July 2001.

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