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CURRICULUM VITAE

Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.

Areas of Research: Medical Imaging, Computational Imaging, Deformable Image

Registration with application to Radiation Therapy, motion-sensitive MR techniques such as Phase-

Contrast MRI and Tagged MRI, physiologic imaging including assessment of cardiovascular and

pulmonary mechanics (hemodynamics, cardiopulmonary function) from non-invasive imaging

Areas of Teaching: Physics and mathematics of medical imaging: MRI, US, Nuclear

Medicine, and X-ray Computed Tomography; Digital Image Processing, Medical Image Analysis.

Biographical Data

A. Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.

B. Endowed Chair in Bioimaging

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director of Medical Imaging Laboratory (MIL)

The University of Louisville (August 1, 2006-)

C. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

J. B. Speed School of Engineering

Paul C. Lutz Hall, Room 409

The University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky 40292

D. The University of Massachusetts, B.S., Electrical Engineering, May 1983

The University of Michigan, MSE, Electrical Engineering, Dec. 1984

The University of Michigan, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, February 1990

Yale University, Postdoctoral Research in Biomedical Imaging, Dec., 1990

E. Associate Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, 1991-1992

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, 1992-1996

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, 1994-1996

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, 1996-2000

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1996-2000

Associate Professor of Medicine (with tenure), Washington University in St. Louis, 2001-2006

Director, Cardiovascular Image Analysis Lab, 1996-2006

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Joint Appointment), Washington University in

St. Louis, July 1, 2001-July 31, 2006

Endowed Chair in Bioimaging, (full) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director

of Medical Imaging Lab (MIL), University of Louisville, KY, August 1, 2006-

Teaching

A. Classroom Instruction

University of Louisville, ECE 641: Medical Imaging Systems [newly developed] 3 credit hours,

Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011. Text: Macovski - Medical Imaging

Systems, Webb – Introduction to Biomedical Imaging, Bushberg - The Essential Physics of

Medical Imaging, Prince & Links – Medical Imaging Signals and Systems.

University of Louisville, ECE 618/635: Digital Image Processing, 4 credit hours, Fall 2008, Fall

2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013. Text: Gonzales and Woods – Digital Image

Processing

University of Louisville, ECE 520/521; Digital Signal Processing, 4 credit hours, Fall 2013, Text:

Proakis & Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing

Instructor’s Overall Rating: ECE 618 – Fall 2008: 4.6/5.0, Fall 2009: 4.33/5.0, Fall 2010: 4.67/5.0,

Fall 2011: 5.0/5.0, Spring 2013: 5.0/5.0

ECE 641 – Spring 2008: not reported, Spring 2009: 4.4/5.0,

Spring 2010: 4.27/5.0, Spring 2011: 5.0/5.0

Washington University BME 590B: Medical Computer Vision [newly developed], 3 credit hours

Yale University: Image Processing; 3 credit hours, Fall semesters, Computer Vision; 3 credit hours,

Spring semesters: 1992-1996. [team taught]

University of Michigan Dept. of Mathematics: Calculus I: Fall 1983

B. Research Supervision

1. Doctoral Students

Andreas Klein, May 1996, Thesis title: Implementation and Validation of a Quantitative Coronary

Angiography System. Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of

Medicine

Jiantao Huang, September 2000, Thesis title: Analysis of Multidimensional Tagged MR Cardiac

Images with Deformable Models. Current Position: Software Development Engineer, Philips GmbH,

San Francisco, Bay area

Yasheng Chen, October 2002, Thesis title: Markov Random Fields on the B-Spline Solid for the

Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images, Current Position: Research Faculty, University of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nicholas Tustison, July 2004, Thesis title: Biventricular Myocardial Strains with Anatomical

NURBS Models from Tagged MRI, Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville

Mohammadreza Negahdar, June 2012, Thesis title: 3-D Lung Deformation and Function from

Respiratory-Gated 4-D X-ray CT Images: Application to Radiation Treatment Planning, Current

Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Iman Khodarahmi, June 2012, Thesis title: Flow and Pressure Measurement Using Phase-Contrast

MRI: Experiments in Phantom Models, Current Position: Internal Medicine Resident, University of

Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Hui Wang, December 2012, Thesis title: MR Imaging of Left-Ventricular Function: Novel Image

Acquisition and Analysis Techniques, Current position: MR Clinical Scientist, Philips Medical

Systems, Cleveland, Ohio

Vahid Tavakoli-Ataebadi, April 2013, Thesis topic: Quantitative Assessment of Regional Cardiac

Function with Ultrasound Echocardiography: Novel Speckle Tracking Algorithms, Current position:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Mohammadhossein Kadbi: Thesis Topic: 4D Ultra-Short TE (UTE) Phase-Contrast MRI for

Assessing Stenotic Flow and Hemodynamics. Graduation date: December 2013, Current position:

Clinical Scientist, Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio

Mohammadjavad Negahdar: Thesis Topic: Harmonic Projection of Noisy Pressure Gradients for

Noninvasive Determination of Intravascular Pressures. Expected graduation date: Spring 2014

Jung Won Cha. Thesis topic: Image-based pulmonary mechanics. Expected graduation date: Spring

2015

2. D.Sc./Ph.D. Committee Participation

Iraj Motabarzadeh, 1998, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Kyoungju Park, 2004, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

M. Sabry Hassouna, 2006, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Hossam Abd El Munim, 2007, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Rashid Fahmi, 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Dongqin Chen, 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Sergey Chekmenev, 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Alaa M. Aly, 2007, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Aleksey Fadev, 2008, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville

Maciej Mazurowski, 2009, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Qian Xu, 2009, Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville

Ahmed Chamseddine Ben Abdallah, 2010, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of

Louisville

Sara Shafaei, 2011, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville

Hamdi Jenzri, 2014, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville

Artur Abdullin, 2014, Computer Engineering Computer Science, University of Louisville

3. M.S./M.Eng. Student Research Supervision

No thesis: Craig Carmen, Chang Cheng, Debashish Pal, Mousumi Bhattacharya

Adrian Fletcher (M. Eng. Student), December 2012, Final paper title: An Automatic Methodology for

Segmentation of the Lung Parenchyma in Thoracic CT Scans. Current position: staff engineer (as part

of the Science Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship with the DoD),

Warner Robins, Georgia

Shreekanth Kura (M.S. Student): Thesis topic: Segmentation of the Cartoid Artery Geometry from

CTA and MRA. Expected graduation date: Spring 2014

4. M.S. Thesis Committees:

None

5. Independent Study for Undergraduates

Eunice Leung

C. Mentoring Activities

1. Postdoctoral Advisees

Rupert W. Curwen (Ph.D., University of Oxford, postdoctoral associate, 1993-1994)

Project: Motion tracking in medical images

Current position: Research Scientist, AT&T Laboratories, Cambridge, U.K.

Vaidy Mani (Ph.D., University of Georgia, postdoctoral associate, 1995-1996)

Project: Analysis of tissue deformations from medical images

Current position: Research Scientist, Iterated Systems, Atlanta, Georgia

Petia Radeva (Ph.D., University Autonomous of Barcelona, postdoctoral associate, 1997-1998)

Project: B-spline reconstruction of tissue deformations in MRI

Current position: Associate Professor, University Autonomous of Barcelona, Spain

Mohamed Elayyadi (Ph.D., Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, postdoctoral

associate, 1998-1999)

Project: Visualization of tissue motion in medical images

Current position: Research Scientist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Yuping Wang (Ph.D., Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, postdoctoral associate, 1999-2000)

Project: Fast numerical methods for motion tracking based on the thin-plate spline kernel

Current position: Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University

Nasser Fatouraee (Ph.D., Laval University, Canada, postdoctoral associate, 1999-2001)

Project: Regularization of flow streamlines in MR velocity imaging

Current position: Assistant Professor, Amirkabir University of Technology

Jian Chen (Ph.D., Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, postdoctoral associate,

2001-2006)

Project: Spatio-temporal band-pass filters for motion tracking

Level-set methods for MRA segmentation

Current position: Research faculty, Washington University in St. Louis

Christian Naaktgeboren (Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, postdoctoral associate, 2007)

Projects: Estimation of pressure from Cine phase-contrast MRI

Current position: Industry, Canada

Mostafa Shakeri (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, postdoctoral associate, 2008-2011)

Projects: particle image velocimetry and in-vitro studies of blood flow

Current position: Energy Startup: Bay area, California

2. Visiting Scientist Sponsorship (Washington University)

Yuehuan Wang, Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,

China, Sept. 2004-August 2005

Project: Measurement of Pressure from MRI Velocity Data

3. Research Engineers Supervised (Washington University)

Abbas N. Moghaddam, 2001-2003, Project: Measurement of Pressure from PC MRI Data. Current

position: Research Faculty, Dept. of Radiology, UCLA

Hasan Sharifi, 2002, Project: Design and application of orientation-specific filters. Current position:

Research Faculty, Purdue University

4. Medical Students [supervised research]

Andreas Klein, M.D., 1996

Greg Byrd, M.D., 2005 Washington University

5. Undergraduate Students [supervised undergraduate research (Washington University) ]

John Marchesini, Casey Harger, Leah Daley, Jason Nguyen, Lisa Steinhoff, Trishana Woodard,

Jordan Woenderle, Jean Sun, Steve Makinen, Jason White, Victor Davila, Will McBride, Brig

Meecham.

Publications

A. Edited Books & Proceedings

1. Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis,

Amir A. Amini, Fred Bookstein, and David Wilson (Eds.), San Francisco, CA, June 1996 .

2. Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis,

Benjamin Kimia, Amir A. Amini, and Dimitris Metaxas (Eds.), Hilton Head Island, NC, June

2000

3. Measurement of Cardiac Deformations from MRI: Physical and Mathematical Models.

Amir A. Amini and Jerry Prince (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, December 2001.

4. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology and Function: Methods,

Systems, and Applications, Anne V. Clough and Amir A. Amini (Eds.) San Diego,

California, February 2003

5. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure

from Medical Images, Amir A. Amini and Armando Manduca (Eds.), San Diego, California,

February 2004.


from Medical Images, Amir A. Amini and Armando Manduca (Eds.), San Diego, California,

February 2005.


from Medical Images, Armando Manduca and Amir A. Amini (Eds.), San Diego, California,

February 2006.

B. Chapter in Books

8. “Visual Perception Using a Blackboard Architecture”, Terry E. Weymouth and Amir A.

Amini, in Image Analysis Applications, Rangachar Kasturi and Mohan Trivedi (Eds.), Marcel

Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 1989.

9. “Pointwise Tracking of Left-Ventricular Motion in 3-D”, Amir A. Amini and James S.

Duncan, in Deformable Models in Medical Image Analysis, A. Singh, Goldgof, and D.

Terzopoulos (Eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 344-349, 1998.

10. “Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images with B-Spline Models”, Yasheng Chen, Yu-Ping

Wang, and Amir A. Amini in Measurement of Cardiac Deformation from MRI: Physical and

Mathematical Models. A. Amini and J. Prince (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, The

Netherlands, December 2001.

11. “Tagged MR Cardiac Imaging”, Nikolaos V. Tsekos and Amir A. Amini, Chapter 6 of

Signal Processing for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, Hong Yan (Ed.),

Marcel Dekker, January 2002.

12. “Tagged MR Image Analysis”, Amir A. Amini and Yasheng Chen, Chapter 16 of Signal

Processing for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, Hong Yan (Ed.), Marcel

Dekker, January 2002.

13. ``Analysis of 4-D Cardiac MR Data with NURBS Deformable Models: Temporal Fitting

Strategy and Nonrigid Registration,’’ Nicholas J. Tustison and Amir A. Amini, Chapter 15

of Parametric and Geometric Deformable Models: An Application in Biomaterials and

Medical Imagery, Vol. II, Springer-Verlag, J. Suri and A. Faraq (Eds.), May 2006

14. “Cardiac MRI for Recovery of Myocardial Deformation: Imaging and Modeling,” Hui Wang

and Amir A. Amini, Chapter 11 of Handbook of Biomedical Engineering: Medical Imaging,

M. Analouis, (Ed.), CRC press, 2012.

15. “Tagging Analysis”, Hui Wang and Amir Amini, Chapter 10 of Heart Mechanics: Magnetic

Resonance Imaging, S. Ibrahim (Ed.), Taylor & Francis, forthcoming, 2013.

16. “ Flow Imaging with MRI”, MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, and Amir Amini, in Physics of

cardiovascular and neurovascular imaging, Carlo Cavedon and Stephen Rudin (Eds.), Taylor

and Francis, forthcoming, 2013.

17. “Deformable Registration of Lung Shapes in 4D CT Images: Determination of Respiratory

Mechanical Strain”, Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir Amini, in Advances of Shape

Analysis in Medical Image Analysis, Shuo Li and João Manuel R. S. Tavares (Eds.), CRC

Press, forthcoming, 2013.

18. “An Optical Flow Approach to Assessment of Ventricular Shape Change Based on

Echocardiography”, Vahid Tavakoli, MJ Negahdar, Jungwon Cha, Marcus Stoddard, and

Amir Amini, in Advances of Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis, Shuo Li and João

Manuel R. S. Tavares (Eds.), CRC Press, forthcoming, 2013.

C. Peer-Reviewed Articles

19. “In-Vitro Validation of Flow Measurement with Phase Contrast MRI at 3T Using SPIV and

SPIV-based CFD,” I. Khodarahmi, M. Shakeri, M. Kotys-Traughber, S. Fischer, K. Sharp,

and Amir A. Amini, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, in press, 2013.

20. “A Survey of Shaped-Based Registration and Segmentation Techniques for Cardiac Images,”

Vahid Tavakoli-Ataebadi and Amir A. Amini, Computer Vision and Image Understanding,

in press, 2013.

21. “4D UTE Flow: A Phase-Contrast MRI Technique for Accurate Assessment of Stenotic

Flows,” M. Kadbi. MJ Negahdar, JW Cha, M. Kotys-Traughber, P. Martin, and A. Amini,

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, in press, 2014.

22. “Tissue Doppler Imaging Optical Flow (TDIOF): A Combined B-Mode and Tissue Doppler

Approach for Cardiac Motion Estimation in Echocardiographic Images,” V. Tavakoli, N.

Bhatia, M. Stoddard, and A. Amini, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, in press, 2014.

23. “Rapid Cardiac Deformation and Strain Analysis Using 3D SinMod from 3D CSPAMM

Tagged MRI”, Hui Wang and A. Amini, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, in review.

24. “Strain as a Novel Index of Regional Pulmonary Function from Thoracic 4-D CT: In-Vivo

Validation with Tomographic SPECT Ventilation and Perfusion”, MR Negahdar, N. Dunlap,

A. Zacarias, A. Cahid Civelek, S. Y. Woo, and A. Amini, Medical Physics, in review.

25. “A Multi-Scale Optical Flow Technique Incorporating Mass Conservation for Deformable

Motion Estimation (MOFID) from 4-D X-ray CT Images of the Lung,” M.R. Negahdar and

A. Amini, submitted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing

26. “A Multimodal MRI/Ultrasound Anthropomorphic Cardiac Phantom for Imaging

Experiments”, V. Tavakoli, MJ Negahdar, J. Cha, M. Stoddard, and A. Amini, submitted to

IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging

27. “Cardiac Motion and Deformation Recovery from MRI: A Review,” Hui Wang and A.

Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, , Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 487-503, Feb. 2012.

28. “Biventricular Myocardial Strains via Non-Rigid Registration of Anatomical NURBS

Models,” Nicholas Tustison and A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 25,

No. 1, pp. 94-112, January 2006.

29. “Integrable Pressure Gradients Via Harmonics-Based Orthogonal Projection,” Yuehuan Wang

and A. Amini, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, under review

30. “Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Pressure Measurements in Vascular Stenoses from PC

MRI,” Abbas Nasiraei-Moghaddam, Nasser Fatouraee, Geoffrey Behrens, Ramesh Agarwal,

Eric Choi, and Amir A. Amini, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Volume 52, No. 2, pp.

300-309, August 2004.

31. “Quantifying 3D Vascular Structures in MRA Images Using Hybrid PDE and Geometric

Deformable Models,” Jian Chen and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical

Imaging, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 1251-1262, October 2004.

32. “A MAP Framework for Tag Line Detection in SPAMM Data Using Markov Random Fields

on the B-Spline Solid,” Yasheng Chen and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical

Imaging, Vol. 21, No. 9, Sept. 2002.

33. “Myocardial Kinematics From Tagged MRI Based on a 4-D B-Spline Model,” Nicholas J.

Tustison, Victor G. Davila-Roman, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical

Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 8, August 2003

34. “Regularization of Flow Streamlines in Phase-Contrast MRI,” Nasser Fatouraee and Amir A.

Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 699-709, June 2003

35. “Fast LV Motion Estimation Using Subspace Approximation Techniques”, Yu-Ping Wang,

Yasheng Chen, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions On Medical Imaging, Vol. 20, No.6,

pp. 499-513, June 2001.

36. “Tag Surface Reconstruction and Tracking of Myocardial Beads from SPAMM-MRI with

Parametric B-Surfaces”, Amir A. Amini, Yasheng Chen, Mohamed Elayyadi, and Petia

Radeva, IEEE Transactions On Medical Imaging, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 94-103, February 2001.

37. “Spatio-Temporal Tracking of Myocardial Deformations with a 4D B-Spline Model from

Tagged MRI”, Jiantao Huang, Dana Abendschein, Victor Dávila-Román, and Amir A.

Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 18, Number 10, pp. 957-972,

October 1999.

38. “Coupled B-Snake Grids and Constrained Thin-Plate Splines for Analysis of 2D Tissue

Deformations from Tagged MRI”, Amir A. Amini, Yasheng Chen, Rupert Curwen, Vaidy

Mani, and Jean Sun, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 344-356,

June 1998.

39. “Deformable B-Solids and Implicit Snakes for 3D Localization and Tracking of SPAMM

MRI Data”, Petia Radeva, Amir A. Amini, and Jiantao Huang, Computer Vision and Image

Understanding, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 163-178, May 1997.

40. “Quantitative Coronary Angiography with Deformable Spline Models”, Andreas Klein,

Forrester Lee, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 16, No. 5,

pp. 468-482, October 1997.

41. “Bending and Stretching Models for LV Wall Motion Analysis from Curves and Surfaces”,

Amir A. Amini and James S. Duncan, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 10, Number 6,

pp. 418-430, July/August 1992.

42. “Using Dynamic Programming for Solving Variational Problems in Vision”, Amir A. Amini,

Terry E. Weymouth, and Ramesh C. Jain, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and

Machine Intelligence, Volume 12, Number 9, pp. 855-867, September 1990.

43. “A Parallel Algorithm for Determining 2D Object Positions Using Incomplete Information

about their Boundaries”, Amir A. Amini, Terry E. Weymouth, and David J. Anderson,

Pattern Recognition, Volume 22, Number 1, pp. 21-28, January 1989.

44. “Analysis of 3D Cardiac Deformations with 3D SinMod”, Hui Wang, Christian Torben

Stoeck, Sebastian Kozerke, Amir Amini, 35th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference,

Osaka, Japan, July 2013.

45. “Noninvasive 3D Pressure Calculation from PC-MRI Via Non-Iterative Harmonics-Based

Orthoghonal Projection: Constant Flow Experiment”, MJ Negahdar, Jung won Cha, Mo

Kadbi, Juan Cebral, Amir Amini, 35th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Osaka,

Japan, July 2013.

46. “Assessment of Flow and Hemodynamics in the Carotid Artery Using a Reduced TE 4D Flow

Spiral Phase-Contrast MRI”, Mo Kadbi, MJ Negahdar, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin,

Amir Amini, 35th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Osaka, Japan, July 2013.

47. “Comparison of Indices of Regional Lung Function from 4D CT: Jacobian vs. Strain of

Deformation”, Mohammadreza Negahdar, Neal Dunlap, Albert Zacarias, A. Cahid Civelek,

Shiao Y.Woo, and Amir A Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, San

Francisco, CA, April 2013.

48. “A Multimodal (MRI/Ultrasound) Cardiac Phantom for Imaging Experiments,” V. Tavakoli,

M. Kendrick, M. Shakeri, M. Alshaher, M. Stoddard, A. Amini, , Society for Photooptical

Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013

49. “Comparison of Cartesian, UTE Radial, and Spiral Phase-Contrast MRI in Measurement of

Blood Flow in Extracranial Carotid Arteries: Normal Subjects”, MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi,

Vahid Tavakoli, Jens Heidenreich, Andrea Yancey, Amir A. Amini, Society for Photo-

optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013

50. “Cardiac Deformation Analysis Using 3D SinMod from 3D CSPAMM Tagged MRI,” Hui

Wang and Amir A. Amini, Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013

51. “Improved Cardiac Motion Detection from Ultrasound Images using TDIOF: a Combined B-

Mode/ Tissue Doppler Approach,” Vahid Tavakoli, Motaz Alshaher, Marcus Stoddard, and

Amir A. Amini, Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical

Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2013

52. “Strain as a novel index of regional pulmonary function from thoracic 4D CT images: in-vivo

validation with tomographic SPECT ventilation and perfusion,” Mohammadreza Negahdar,

Neal Dunlap, Albert Zacarias, A. Cahid Civelek, Shiao Y.Woo, and Amir A Amini, Society

for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging, Orlando, FL, February

2013

53. “A Novel Phase-Corrected 3D Cine Ultra-Short TE (UTE) Phase-Contrast MRI Technique”,

Mo Kadbi, Hui Wang, MJ Negahdar, Lizette Warner, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin, Jens

Heidenreich, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference,

San Diego, CA, September 2012

54. “Validation of 3D Ultra-Short TE (UTE) Phase-Contrast MRI For Imaging of Steady Flow:

Initial Phantom Experiments”, Mo Kadbi, MJ Negahdar, Jung won Cha, Melanie Traughber,

Peter Martin, Jens Heidenreich, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and

Biology Conference, San Diego, CA, September 2012

55. “Shear Stress Determination in a Model of Iliac Artery Stenosis”, M. Shakeri, I. Khodarahmi,

K. Sharp, and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings for ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference,

Farjardo, Puerto Rico, June 2012.

56. “EfFect of Venc on Accuracy of velocity profiles in Multi-Slice Phase-Contrast MR imaging

of Stenotic flow “, MJ Negahdar, J. Cha, M. Shakeri, M. Kendrick, M. Alshaher, K. Sharp, A.

Yancey, J. Heidenreich, and Amir A. Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical

Imaging, Barcelona, Spain, May 2012

57. “Regional Lung Strains Via A Volumetric Mass Conserving Optical Flow Model”,

Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A. Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical

Imaging, Barcelona, Spain, May 2012

58. “Comparison of Relative Pressures Calculated from PC-MRI and SPIV with Catheter-based

Pressure Measurements in a Stenotic Phantom Model,” Iman Khodarahmi, Mostafa Shakeri,

Melanie Kotys-Traughber, Michael K. Sharp, Amir A. Amini, Society for Photooptical

Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February 2012.

59. “A 3-D Optical Flow Technique based on Mass Conservation for Deformable Motion

Estimation from 4-D CT Images of the Lung,” Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A

Amini, Society for Photooptical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February

2012. (Finalist in the Best Student Paper Award)

60. “An Automated Landmark-based Elastic Registration Technique for Large Deformation

Recovery from4-D CT Lung Images,” Mohammadreza Negahdar, Albert Zacarias, Rebecaa

Milam, Neal Dunlap, Shiao Y. Woo, Amir A. Amini, Society for Photooptical

Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February 2012.

61. “Orthogonal CSPAMM (OCSPAMM) MR Tagging for Imaging Ventricular Wall Motion “,

Hui Wang, Mo Kadbi, Melanie Kotys, Mehmet Ersoy, George Chatzimavroudis, Randolph

Setser, Motaz Alshaher, Stefan Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine

and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011

62. “An Improved Real-time Cine Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) Imaging Method at 3T”,

Mo Kadbi, Melanie Kotys, Motaz Alshaher, Stefan Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011

63. “Rapid Flow Quantification in Iliac Arteries from Spiral Phase-Contrast MRI”, MJ Negahdar,

Mo Kadbi, Melanie Kotys, Motaz Alshaher, Stefan Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011

64. “Estimation of Affine Motion from Projection Data Using a Mass Conservation Model”,

Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011

65. “Multi-scale Optical Flow Including Normalized Mutual Information for Planar Deformable

Lung Motion Estimation from 4D CT”, Mohammadreza Negahdar and Amir A. Amini,

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, September 2011

66. “A Multi-scale Nonlinear Vessel Enhancement Technique”, Behnaz Abdollahi, Ayman El-

Baz, and and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference,

Boston, MA, September 2011

67. “Planar Deformable Motion Estimation Incorporating Mass Conservation and Image Gradient

Constancy”, M.R. Negahdar and Amir A. Amini, IEEE International Symposium on

Biomedical Imaging, Chicago, IL, April 2011.

68. “Cine phase-contrast MRI measurement of CSF flow in the cervical spine: a pilot study in

patients with spinal cord injury”, MJ Negahdar, Mostafa Shakeri, Elizabeth McDowell, John

Wells, Susan Harkema, and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on

Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL,

February 2011.

69. “The effect of PSF spatial-variance and nonlinear transducer geometry on motion estimation

from echocardiography”, Vahid Tavakoli and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE

Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging,

Orlando, FL, February 2011.

70. “Cardiac Motion Tracking Approach with Multilevel B-splines and SinMod from Tagged

MRI”, Hui Wang and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Biomedical

Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL, February 2011.

(Honorable Mention Poster Award)

71. “Using PIV to Determine Relative Pressures in a Stenotic Phantom Under Steady Flow Based

on the Pressure-Poisson Equation”, I. Khodarahmi, M. Shakeri, M. Sharp, and Amir A.

Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina,

August 2010.

72. “Comparison of Myocardial Motion Estimation Methods Based on Simulated

Echocardiographic B-Mode and RF Data,” V. Tavakoli, J. Kemp, B. Dawn, M. Stoddard, and

Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Biomedical Applications in

Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010.

73. “Accurate 2-D Cardiac Motion Tracking Using Scattered Data Fitting incorporating Phase

Information from MRI,” H. Wang and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference

on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, San Diego,

CA, February 2010

74. “Tracking planar lung motion in 4D CT with optical flow: validations and comparison of

global, local and local-global methods,” M..R. Negahdar and Amir Amini, Proceedings of the

SPIE Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional

Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010.

75. “Optical Imaging of Steady Flow in a Phantom Model of Iliac Artery Stenosis: Comparison of

CFD Simulations with PIV Measurements,” M. Shakeri, I. Khodarahmi, M. Sharp, and Amir

A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular,

Structural, and Functional Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010.

76. “Accurate Recovery of 4D Left Ventricular Deformations using NURBS Model Incorporating

Phase-Based Displacement Estimates,” Jian Chen, Nicholas Tustison, and Amir A. Amini,

proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure

from Medical Images, San Diego, California, February 2006.

77. “Pulsatile Pressure Measurements Via Harmonics-Based Orthogonal Projection of Noisy

Pressure Gradients ,” Yuehuan Wang, Abbas N. Moghaddam, Geoffrey Behrens, Nasser

Fatouraee, Juan Cebral, Eric T. Choi, and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of SPIE Medical

Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San

Diego, California, February 2006.

78. “Integrable Pressure Gradients Via Harmonics-Based Orthogonal Projection,” Yuehuan Wang

and Amir A. Amini, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, LNCS 3565, pp. 431-442,

Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2005

79. “Lagrangian and Eulerian Biventricular Strains from Anatomical NURBS Models Using

Tagged MRI,” Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging

Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San Diego,

California, February 2005.

80. “Comparison of Parallel and Spiral Tagged MRI Geometries in Estimation of 3-D Myocardial

Strains,” Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging

Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San Diego,


81. “Biventricular Myocardial Kinematics Based on Tagged MRI From Volumetric NURBS

Models," Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, proceedings of IEEE Computer Society

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington, D.C., June 2004.

82. “Myocardial Kinematics Based on Tagged MRI From Geometric Deformable NURBS

Models,” Nicholas Tustison and Amir A. Amini, SPIE Conference on Physiology, Function,

and Structure from Medical Images, San Diego, California, February 2004.

83. “An Optical Flow Approach for Automated Breathing Motion Tracking in 4D Computed

Tomography,” I. El Naqa, D. Low, M. Nystrom, P. Parikh, W. Lu, J. Deasy, A. Amini, J.

Hubenschmidt, S. Wahab, Proc. of 14th

Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation

Therapy, pp. 74-77, Seoul, Korea, May 2004

84. “Fast Computation of Static Flow Pressure Maps from Phase-Contrast MRI in Axi-Symmetric

Coordinates,” Abbas N. Moghaddam, Eric T. Choi, and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in

Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Houston, TX October 2002

85. “A Fast Method for Computation of the Static Pressure Field in Stenotic Geometries by PC

MRI,” Abbas N. Moghaddam, Geoffrey Behrens, Nasser Fatouraee, Ramesh Agarwal, Eric

Choi, and Amir A. Amini, SPIE Conference on Physiology and Function from Multi-

Dimensional Medical Images: Methods, Systems, and Applications, San Diego, California,

February 2003.

86. “Automated Breathing Motion Tracking for 4D Computed Tomography,” I. El Naqa, D. Low,

J. Deasy, A. Amini, P. Parikh, and M. Nystrom, IEEE Symposium on Nuclear Science, Vol.

5, pp. 3219-3222, Oct. 2003.

87. “Tracking Myocardial Beads from SPAMM-MRI with a 4-D B-Spline Model,” Nicholas J.

Tustison and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Conference, Houston, TX October 2002

88. “Myocardial Strain Imaging with Tagged MRI,” Nicholas Tustison, Dana Abendschein,

Victor Davila-Roman, and Amir A. Amini, International Conference on Pattern Recognition,

Quebec City, Canada, August 2002.

89. “Markov Random Field Model for 3D Left-Ventricular Motion Estimation from Tagged

MRI”, Y. Chen and Amir A. Amini, SPIE Conference on Physiology, Function, and

Structure from Medical Images, pp. 150-159, San Diego, CA, February 2002.

90. “A MAP Framework for Tag Line Detection in SPAMM Data Using Markov Random Fields

on the B-Spline Solid,” Yasheng Chen and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Workshop on

Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001.

91. “Recovery of Flow Patterns in an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Phantom from Phase-Contrast

MRI”, Nasser Fatouraee and Amir A. Amini, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in

Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton Head, S.C., pp. 104-109, June 2000.

92. “Fast Computation of Tagged MRI Motion Fields”, Yu-Ping Wang and Amir A. Amini,

IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton Head, S.C.,

pp. 119-126, June 2000.

93. “Fast Techniques for Determining Myocardial Strains from Tagged MRI,” Y. Wang and

Amir Amini, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Chicago, IL., July

2000.

94. “Noninvasive Placement and 3D Tracking of Myocardial Beads with SPAMM Tagged

Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” A. Amini, P. Radeva, M. Elayyadi, W. McBride, D. Li, and

D. Abendschein, Computers in Cardiology, pp. 745-748, 1998.

95. Comparison of Land-Mark Based and Curve-Based Thin-Plate Warps for Analysis of

Left-Ventricular Motion from Tagged MRI”, Amir A. Amini, Yasheng Chen, and Dana

Abendschein, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, University of

Cambridge, UK, pp. 498-507, September 1999.

96. “Four-dimensional LV Tissue Tracking from Tagged MRI with a 4D B-Spline Model”,

Jiantao Huang and Amir A. Amini, in Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Visegrad,

Hungary, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1613, Kuba, Samal, and

Todd-Pokropek (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 346-351, July 1999.

97. Measurement of 3D Motion of Myocardial Material Points from Tagged Data”, Amir A.

Amini, Petia Radeva, Mohamed Elayyadi, and Debiao Li, Medical Image Computing and

Computer-Assisted Intervention, MIT, Cambridge, MA, pp. 110-118, October 1998.

98. “Anatomical Object Volumes from Deformable B-Spline Surface Models”, Jiantao Huang

and Amir A. Amini, International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL, October

1998.

99. “Constrained Thin-Plate Spline Reconstruction of 2D Deformations from Tagged MRI”,

Amir A. Amini, Y. Chen, J. Sun, and V. Mani, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image

Analysis, Santa Barbara, California, pp. 36-45, June 1998.

100. “Snakes and Splines for Tracking Non-Rigid Heart Motion”, Amir A. Amini, Rupert

Curwen, and John Gore, European Conference on Computer Vision, University of

Cambridge, U.K., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1065, Cipolla and Buxton

(Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 251-261, April 1996.

101. “Deformable B-Solids and Implicit Snakes for 3D Localization and Tracking of

SPAMM MRI Data”, Petia Radeva, Amir A. Amini, J. Huang, and E. Marti, Proceedings of

Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, San Francisco, California, pp. 192-

201, April 1996.

102. “Physics-Based Snakes, Kalman Snakes, and Snake Grids for Medical Image

Segmentation and Tracking”, Amir A. Amini, et. al, Information Processing in Medical

Imaging, Ile de Berder, France, Yves Bizais (Ed.), Kluwer, New York, pp. 363-364, June

1995.

103. “A Scalar Function Formulation for Optical Flow: Applications to X-ray Imaging,”

Amir A. Amini, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, pp. 117-123, 1994.

104. “Tracking Vascular Motion in X-ray Image Sequences with Kalman Snakes”, R.

Curwen, Amir A. Amini, J. Duncan, and F. Lee, Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology,

Bethesda, Maryland, pp. 109-112, September 1994.

105. “Identifying Vascular Features with Orientation Specific Filters and B-Spline Snakes”,

A. Klein, T. Egglin, J. Pollak, F. Lee, and Amir A. Amini , Proceedings of Computers in

Cardiology, Bethesda, Maryland, pp. 113-116, September 1994.

106. “A Scalar Function Formulation for Optical Flow”, Amir A. Amini, European

Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,

Volume 800, Jan-Olof Eklundh (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 125-131, May 1994.

107. MR Physics-Based Snake Tracking and Dense Deformations from Tagged Cardiac

Images”, Amir A. Amini, Rupert W. Curwen, R. Todd Constable, and John C. Gore, Stanford

University AAAI Conference on Applications of Computer Vision to Medical Imaging, pp.

126-129, March 21-23, 1994.

108. “Shape-Based Tracking and Analysis of Myocardial Function from 4D images”,

James S. Duncan, Peng Shi, Amir A. Amini, R. Todd Constable, and Albert Sinusas,

Stanford University AAAI Conference on Applications of Computer Vision to Medical

Imaging, pp. 165-168, March 21-23, 1994

109. “Computational Techniques for Determining Non-Rigid Motion of Blood from

Medical Images,” Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging

(Image Processing), Newport Beach, California, pp. 403-412, February 1994.

110. “Physical Models for Measurement of Blood Velocity and Flow from Diagnostic

Images”, Amir A. Amini, Thomas K. Egglin, and Jeffrey S. Pollak, Computers in

Cardiology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., pp. 783-786,

September 1993.

111. “Motion Tracking of the Left-Ventricular Surface,” Amir A. Amini, Pengcheng Shi,

and James S. Duncan, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Biomedical Image Processing and

Three-Dimensional Microscopy, San Jose, California, pp. 343-353, February 1992.

112. “Differential Geometry for Characterizing 3D Shape Change,” Amir A. Amini and

James S. Duncan, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Mathematical Methods in Medical

Imaging, San Diego, California, pp. 170-181, July 1992.

113. “Energy-Minimizing Deformable Grids for Tracking Tagged MR Cardiac Images”,

Amir A. Amini, Pengcheng Shi, Todd Constable, Kevin Johnson, James S. Duncan, and John

C. Gore, Computers in Cardiology, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 651-654, October 1992.

114. “Non-Rigid Motion Models for Tracking the Left Ventricular Wall”, Amir A. Amini,

Randall L. Owen, P. Anandan, and James S. Duncan, Information Processing in Medical

Imaging, Wye, U.K., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 511, Alan C. Colchester and

David J. Hawkes (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 343-357, July 1991.

115. “Point wise Tracking of Left-Ventricular Motion in 3D”, Amir A. Amini and James

S. Duncan, IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 294-299, October

1991.

116. “Shape-Based 4D Left Ventricular Myocardial Function Analysis,” P. Shi, A. Amini,

G. Robinson, A. Sinusas, C. Constable and J.S. Duncan, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical

Image Analysis, Seattle, Washington, June, 1994, Pp. 88-99.

117. “Towards Reliable, Noninvasive Measurement of Myocardial Function from 4D

Images,” J.S. Duncan, P. Shi, A. Amini, R. Constable, L. Staib, D. Dione, Q. Shi, E. Heller,

M. Singer, A. Chakraborty, G. Robinson, J. Gore and A. Sinusas, SPIE Medical Imaging:

Physiology and Function from Medical Images, Newport Beach, Ca., Feb., 1994. Pp. 149-

161.

118. “Two and Three Dimensional Motion Models for the Left Ventricular Wall,” A.

Amini, R. Owen, P. Anandan, and J. Duncan, in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Northeast

Bioengineering Conference, Hartford, Connecticut, April, 1991. Pp. 193-194.

119. “Energy- Minimizing Grids for Tracking MR Tags”, P. Shi, A. Amini, T. Constable

and J. Duncan , Proceedings of the 18th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference,

Kingston, Rhode Island, April, 1992. [honorable mention paper award]

120. “TVS: An Environment for Building Vision Systems”, Terry E. Weymouth, Amir A.

Amini, and Saeid Tehrani, Proceedings of Applications of Artificial Intelligence VII,

Orlando, Florida, March 1989.

121. “Using Dynamic Programming for Minimizing the Energy of Active Contours in the

Presence of Hard Constraints,” Amir A. Amini, Saeid Tehrani, and Terry E. Weymouth,

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision, Tampa, Florida, pp.

95-99, December 1988.

122. “Representation and Organization of Domain Knowledge in a Blackboard

Architecture: A Case Study from Computer Vision,” Amir A. Amini and Terry E.

Weymouth, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Alexandria,

VA, October 1987

123. “A Framework for Knowledge-Based Computer Vision: Using a Blackboard

Architecture,” Terry E. Weymouth and Amir A. Amini, Society of Manufacturing Engineers,

Detroit, Michigan, 1987

D. Abstracts

124. “Non-Invasive 3D Pressure Calculation from 4D Flow: Pulsatile Phantom Study,” MJ

Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, Michael Kendrick, Rita Longaker, Sohail Ikram, Marcus Stoddard,

Amir Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China, May 2014.

125. “Assessment and Visualization of Pulsatile Flow in Aortic Stenosis with 4D Flow

MRI ,” MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, Michael Kendrick, Rita Longaker, Sohail Ikram, Marcus

Stoddard, Amir Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China,

May 2014.

126. “Heterogeneous Pattern of 2D Lung Deformations Revealed through Deformable

Registration of 4D CT Data,” Jung won Cha, Neal Dunlap, Brian Wang, Shiao Y Woo, Amir

Amini, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China, May 2014.

127. “Fusion of Tissue Doppler and Speckle Tracking in Echocardiography Images:

Comparison with Speckle Tracking Echocardiography”, Vahid Tavakoli, Nirmon Bhatia,

Marcus Stoddard, and Amir Amini, American College of Cardiology annual meeting, San

Francisco, California, March 2013

128. “A Fast 3-D Non-Iterative Approach to Pressure Calculation from PC-MRI: Phantom

Experiments,” MJ Negahdar, Mo Kadbi, Jung-Won Cha, Juan Cebral, and Amir Amini,

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2013.

129. “A Fast Reduced TE 4D Spiral PC MRI Sequence for Assessment of Flow and

Hemodynamics”, Mo Kadbi, MJ Negahdar, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin, and Amir

Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah,

April 2013.

130. “4D UTE Flow: A Novel 4D Ultra-Short TE Phase-Contrast MRI Technique for

Assessment of Flow and Hemodynamics”, Mo Kadbi, Melanie Traughber, Peter Martin, and

Amir Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City,

Utah, April 2013.

131. “3D Left-Ventricular Deformation Analysis from 3D CSPAMM with 3D SinMod”,

Hui Wang, Christian Stoeck, Sebastian Kozerke, and Amir Amini, International Society for

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2013.

132. "A Multimodal (MR/US) Cardiac Phantom for Validation of Imaging Algorithms",

Vahid Tavakoli, Mostafa Shakeri, Michael Kendrick, Motaz Alshaher, Amir Amini, North

American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), Pasadena, October 2012

133. "Combining Tissue Doppler and Speckle Tracking in Echocardiography Images:

Comparison with Tagged MR", Vahid Tavakoli, Motaz Alshaher, Marcus Stoddard, Amir

Amini, North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), Pasadena, October

2012

134. “Strain as a Novel Index of Regional Function from Treatment Planning Thoracic 4-D

CT,” Mohammadreza Negahdar, Amir A Amini, Albert Zacarias, Bart L Lynch, Rebecca A

Milam, Shiao Y. Woo, and Neal Dunlap, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, supplement for the

2012 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology, Chicago, IL, USA, Sept.

2012

135. “A Four Chamber Dynamic Cardiac Phantom for MRI Studies,” V. Tavakoli, M.

Shakeri, M. Kendrick, M. Alshaher, A. Amini, European Society of Radiology (ESR), E-

poster, Vienna, Austria, March 2012

136. “Cardiac Deformation Analysis from Orthogonal CSPAMM (OCSPAMM) Tagged

MRI,” Hui Wang, Mo Kadbi, Motaz Alshaher, Melanie Kotys, Stefan E. Fischer, and Amir

A. Amini,, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), Orlando, FL, February

2012, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012, 14(suppl. 1):W17

137. “Accuracy of Flow measurement with Phase Contrast MRI in a Stenotic Phantom:

Where should flow be measured?” Iman Khodarahmi, Mostafa Shakeri, Melanie Kotys-

Traughber, M. Keith Sharp, Amir A. Amini, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

(SCMR), Orlando, FL, February 2012, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012,

14(suppl. 1): P219

138. “Pressure Gradients Calculated from PC MRI, SPIV, and CFD Velocity Data in a

Phantom Model: Comparison with Catheter Pressure Measurement,” Iman Khodarahmi,

Mostafa Shakeri, Melanie Kotys-Traughber, M. Keith Sharp, Amir A. Amini, ISMRM Flow

& Motion Workshop, Orlando, FL, February 2012. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic

Resonance 2012, 14(suppl. 1):W34

139. “A Novel Optical Flow Method for Myocardial Deformation Analysis from Tagged

MRI,”Mohammadreza Negahdar, Hui Wang, and Amir A. Amini, ISMRM Flow & Motion

Workshop, Orlando, FL, February 2012, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

2012, 14(suppl. 1):W45

140. “Choice of Bandpass Filter on Accuracy of Myocardial Deformation Recovery With

SinMod”, Hui Wang, Mo Kadbi, Melanie Troughber, and Amir Amini, International Society

of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May 2012

141. “A Two-Chamber Multi-modality Cardiac Phantom”, Vahid Tavakoli, Michael

Kendrick, Motaz Alshaher, and Amir Amini, International Society of Magnetic Resonance

in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May 2012

142. “Effect of Trajectory Delay in Cine Ultra-Short TE Phase-Contrast MR Imaging of the

Carotid Bifurcation”, Mo Kadbi, Hui Wang, Lizette Warner, Melanie Traughber, Motaz

Alshaher, Andrea Yancey, Jens Heidenreich, and Amir A Amini, International Society of

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May 2012

143. “3D Cine Ultra-short TE (UTE) phase contrast imaging in carotid artery: comparison

with conventional technique”, Mo Kadbi, Hui Wang, Lizette Warner, Melanie Traughber,

Motaz Alshaher, Andrea Yancey, Jens Heidenreich, and Amir A Amini, International

Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, May

2012

144. “A real-time cine late gadolinium enhancement imaging method at 3T,” M. Kadbi, H.

Wang, MJ Negahdar, M. Kotys, S. Fischer, and Amir A. Amini, International Society of

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 2011

145. “In-Vitro Validation of Phase Contrast MRI at 7T in a Stenotic Phantom Under Steady

Flow Using PIV,” I. Khodarahmi, M. Shakeri, R. Pratt, J. Wansapura, M. K. Sharp, and

Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting,

Stockholm, Sweden, May 2010.

146. “A Global Phase Unwrapping Method for Cardiac Motion Tracking Using Tagged

MRI,” H. Wang and Amir A. Amini, North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging,

annual meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2010

147. “Automated breathing motion tracking for 4D CT,” I. ElNaqa, D. Low, J. Deasy,”

Amir A Amini, P. Parikh, and M. Nystrom, AIPM annual meeting, July 2003.

148. “A Deformable Model for Automatic Detection of Tag Features in 3D within a

Bayesian Framework,” Yasheng Chen and Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic

Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2003

149. “ Numerical Simulation of Steady and Pulsatile Flow Through Vascular Stenoses and

Comparison with Experiments Using Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” G.

Behrens, R. Agarwal, A. Moghaddam, E. Choi, A. Amini, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Meeting, November 2003.

150. “Deformable Registration of 3He MR and X-ray CT Images of the Lungs,” Nicholas

Tustison, Dmitriy Yablonskiy, Mark Conradi, and Amir A. Amini, International Society of

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2002.

151. “Strain Patterns from a 4D B-Spline Model of Tagged MRI: Baseline and Post-MI

Studies.” Jiantao Huang, Dana Abendschein, Victor Dávila-Román, and Amir A. Amini,

International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow,

Scotland, April 2001.

152. Computation and Visualization of 3D Tag Intersections from a 4D B-Spline Model of

Tagged MRI.” Jiantao Huang and Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic

Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.

153. “Accuracy of 3D Myocardial Strains from a 4D B-Spline Deformable Model for

Tagged MRI,” Jiantao Huang and Amir A. Amini, International Society of Magnetic

Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.

154. “Detection of MR Flow Disturbance in Small Diameter Tubes and Coronary Arteries,”

P. Woodard, J. Zheng, D. Abendschein, R. Kowalski, N. Fatouraee, N. Tsekos, A. Amini, and

R. Gropler, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting,

Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.

155. “Deformable Grids and Smooth Warps for Analysis of SPAMM Images”, Amir A.

Amini , Rupert Curwen, R. Todd Constable, and John Gore, Society of Magnetic Resonance

in Medicine Annual Meeting, Nice, France, August 1995.

156. “Automated Motion Tracking and Dense Deformations from Tagged MR Cardiac

Images”, Amir A. Amini, R. W. Curwen, R. T. Constable, and J. C. Gore, Proceedings of

SMR 2nd

Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 1994.

157. “3D Shape Based Tracking of Left Ventricular Wall Motion: Experimental

Validation,” J. Duncan, A. Sinusas, T. Constable, L. Staib, D. Dione, Q. Shi, P. Shi, A.

Amini, E. Heller, T. McAuley, Annual Scientific Session of the American College of

Cardiology, Atlanta, GA, March 1994.

158. ““Planum Temporal Area and Symmetry are Comparable in Dyslexic and Normal

Children ,” J. Duncan, Y. Wang, A. Amini, R. Greene, L. Kier, J. Gore, J. Holahan, S.

Shaywitz, J. Fletcher, R. Bronen and B. Shaywitz, Proc. of 21st Annual Child Neurology

Society Meeting, New Orleans, La., Oct, 1992.

159. “3D Shape Based Tracking of Left Ventricular Wall Motion: Experimental

Validation” J. Duncan, A. Sinusas, R.T. Constable, L. H. Staib, D.P. Dione, Q. Shi, P. Shi, A.

A. Amini, E. Heller, and T. McAuley, American College of Cardiology 43rd

Annual Scientific

Session, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 1994.

E. Other Publications [not peer-reviewed]

1. Editorials

160. “Biomedical Image Analysis,” Amir A. Amini, Fred Bookstein, and David Wilson,

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 163-178, May 1997

161. “Vascular Imaging,” Alejandro Frangi, Amir A. Amini, and Elizabeth Bullitt, IEEE

Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 24, No. 3, April 2005.

2. Invited Articles and Reviews

162. ``Imaging and Analysis for Determination of Cardiovascular Mechanics,’’ Amir A.

Amini, Jian Chen, and Yuehuan Wang, Invited Paper, International Symposium on

Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., April 2007

163. “Flexible Shape Models for Segmentation and Tracking of Cardiovascular Imaging

Data”, Amir A. Amini, Jiantao Huang, Andreas Klein, Petia Radeva, and Mohamed

Elayyadi, Invited Paper, International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL, October

1998.

164. “Detection and Tracking of LV Endocardial Surface from 3D Image Sequences”,

James S. Duncan, Larry Staib, and Amir A. Amini, Invited Paper, Proc. of IEEE Conference

on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Orlando, November 1991.

3. Technical Reports

165. “Surface-Weaving with Deformable Signals”, Amir A. Amini, Brian Schunck, and

Ramesh Jain, Dept. of EECS, University of Michigan, Technical Report, 1989.

166. “The Vision System”, Amir A. Amini, Saeed Tehrani, and Terry Weymouth, Dept. of

EECS, University of Michigan, Technical Report, 1988.

Presentations

A. Presentations at Conferences. Note that the following list does not include oral

presentations by students/postdocs

SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and

Functional Imaging, San Diego, California, February 2012.

International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., April 2007

SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, San


World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, July 2000

IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton Head, S.C., pp

104-109, June 2000.



Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October

1998.

Computers in Cardiology, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, Santa Barbara, California, June 1998.

AAAI Conference on Applications of Computer Vision to Medical Imaging, Stanford University,

March 1994

SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging (Image Processing), Newport Beach, California, February

1994.

Computers in Cardiology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., September

1993.

SPIE Conference on Biomedical Image Processing and Three-Dimensional Microscopy, San Jose,


SPIE Conference on Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, July 1992.

Computers in Cardiology, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 651-654, October 1992

IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1991

Second International Conference on Computer Vision, Tampa, Florida, December 1988.

B. External Invited Talks and Seminars

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, December 2013

Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, July 2013

University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 2011

Philips MR Research, Cleveland, Ohio, May 2010

IEEE Louisville branch, March 2009

International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April 2007

University of Memphis, April 2005

Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, 2004

Pfizer Computational Medicine, Groton, 2004

New York University, New York, 2003

Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003

University of Washington, Seattle, 2001

University of California, Irvine, 2001

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL 1998

Whitaker Symposium on Cardiovascular Imaging, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1998

Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 1996

University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996

University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1996

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1995

United Medical and Dental School, London, U.K., 1994

Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., 1994

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1989

Philips Medical Systems, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 1989

IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, 1989

University of Miami, Miami, FL, 1989

Kodak Image Processing Research, Rochester, NY, 1989

MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 1989

Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1989

C. Posters at Conferences. Note that the following list does not include posters presented by

student/postdocs

SCMR/ISMRM Jointly Sponsored Workshop on Exploring New Dimensions of Cardiovascular Flow

and Motion, Orlando, Fl, February 2012.



International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April

2002.

International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, April

2001

Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, University of Cambridge, UK, pp.

498-507, September 1999.

Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Visegrad, Hungary, July 1999.

European Conference on Computer Vision, University of Cambridge, U.K., April 1996.

Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Nice, France, August 1995.

Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Ile de Berder, France, June 1995.

European Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1994.

Grants and Contracts

A. National/Governmental

University of Louisville

Analysis of peripheral MR Velocity Images for Direct Quantification of pulsatile pressures, Principal

Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Co-PI: M. Keith Sharp, Agency: NSF, 0730467 (1/1/08-12/31/11) -

~$300K

4D UTE PC MRI for Assessment of Flow and Hemodynamics, Principal Investigator: Amir A.

Amini, Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01HL118473; pending - $2.3M

Regional Lung Strain for Radiation Treatment Planning, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini,

Agency, NIH/NCI R21CA173596; pending- ~$450K

Noninvasive Determination of Hemodynamics in PAD from MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A.

Amini, Agency NIH/R21-HL121666-01, pending ~$450K

Washington University in St. Louis

4-Dimensional LV Tissue Tracking in CAD from Tagged MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A.

Amini, Ph.D., Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-64217 (8/00-7/05) - ~$900K

Methods for Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,

Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-57628 (8/98-7/03) ~$500K

Blood Flow, Contractile, and Metabolic Function in LVH Principal Investigator: Victor

Dávila-Román, M.D., Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-58878, (7/1/00-6/30/05) - $2M

Quantification of Lung Ventilation and Structure by 3He MR Principal Investigator: Dmitriy

Yablonskiy , Ph.D., Agency: NIH/NHLBI R01-HL-7003701 (12/1/02-11/30/07)-$1.9M

Left-Ventricular Remodeling in Aortic Insufficiency. Principal Investigator: Michael Pasque, M.D.,

Agency: NIH/NHLBI, R01-HL-64869 (7/1/00-6/30/04)-$1.8M

Yale University

Vision Algorithms for Analysis of Tissue and Fluid Deformations from Medical Images. Principal

Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Agency: NSF, IRI-9796207 (6/94-6/97) - $275K

Automated Techniques for Analysis of Cardiac MRI Data, Yale University School of Medicine, NIH

Biomedical Research Science Grant (BRSG) Fluid Fund Research Award, (7/1/92-6/30/93) - $10K

B. Non-Governmental

University of Louisville

Non-invasive Assessment of Intravascular Pressures from MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A.

Amini, Ph.D., Agency: Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Grant Program – Innovative Award,

University of Louisville, Period (7/1/2010-6/30/2012)-$200K

Research Contract and Agreement with Philips Medical Systems to develop and clinically validate

novel MRI methods for imaging of cardiovascular flows and motion. PI: Amir A. Amini

Site: Robley Rex Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Louisville, KY (Dr. Amini has a without

compensation appointment and is on the research staff at the Louisville VA)

Washington University in St. Louis

Equipment Grant to Purchase Advanced Computer Workstation, Principal Investigator: Amir A.

Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/1/97-12/31/97) - $50K

Equipment Grant to Purchase MR Compatible Flow Phantom System and A Sun Microsystems

Advanced Workstation, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/1/99-12/31/99) - $50K

Equipment Grant to Purchase Advanced Computer Workstation, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation,

(1/1/00-12/31/00) - $50K

In-Vivo Assessment of 3-D Myocardial Contractility, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,

Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/1/98-12/31/98) - $100K

Processing and Visualization of MRI Flow Data, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,

Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/99-12/99) - $100K

Hemodynamic Indices in AAA from MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-

Jewish Hospital Foundation, (1/00-12/00) - $100K

Methods for Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D.,

Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, (8/1/02-7/31/03) - $100K

Non-Invasive Measurement of Intravascular Pressures from MRI, Principal Investigator: Amir A.

Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation (2/1/05-1/31/06 with no-cost extension) - $100K

Non-Invasive Measurement of Intravascular Pressures from MRI (competitive renewal), Principal

Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation (2/1/06-1/31/07) - $100K

Yale University

Automated Techniques for Measurement of Cardiac Motion from MR Tagging, Principal

Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Agency: The Whitaker Foundation, (9/1/94-8/31/98 with 4th

year extension) -$200K

Service

A. Editorial Responsibilities

Member of IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing (2013)

Associate Editor: IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 1999-present

Associate Editor, Elsevier’s Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2012- present

Guest Editor: Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing special issue on biomedical image

analysis May 1997

Guest Editor: Special Issue of IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging on Vascular Imaging, April 2005

Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure

from Medical Images, 2003-2006

Acting Associate Editor (2005): Medical Physics

B. Journal Reviewer

IEEE Trans. On Medical Imaging

IEEE Trans. On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Engineering

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology, and Medicine (MAGMA)

Medical Physics

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

ACM Computing Surveys

Image and Vision Computing

ASME Journal of Biomechanics

Medical Image Analysis

AJP: Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Academic Radiology

C. Grant Review Panels/Study Sections

NSF scientific review panel for Robotics and Human Augmentation, 1999

NIH study section for Diagnostic Imaging, 1998

NSF scientific review panel for Biomedical Engineering, 1999, 2000

Special Emphasis NIH Study Section: RFA on innovations in Biomedical Computing, July 2005

Special Emphasis NIH Study Section: RFA on innovations in Biomedical Computing, June 2004

NHLBI Study Section for RFA on Cellular and Molecular Imaging of the Cardiovascular System,

June 2004

NIH In-vivo Imaging and Bioengineering Research Study Section: June 2007

Reviewer for Austrian Science Fund, FWF

NIH In-vivo Imaging and Bioengineering Research Study Section: October 2007

NIH In-vivo Imaging and Bioengineering Research Study Section: June 2008

Reviewer for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

NIH Challenge grant mail reviewer: June 2009

NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants study section, March 2010

NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants study section, November 2010

NIH/NIBIB Institutional Training and Career Development Grants study section, March 2011

NIH Center for Scientific Review, Clinical and Translational Sciences Imaging Applications study

section, mail reviewer, Sept. 2011

NIH, CSR, Reviewer for ZRG1 SBIB-V (82)S, February 2012

Member of NIH Center for Scientific Review College of Reviewers, Jan. 2010-Dec 2012

Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DO) - “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft “ (DFG)

D. Conference Organization

Associate Editor/Paper selection committee, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,

Beijing, China, April 2014

Associate Editor/Paper selection committee, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,

San Francisco, CA, April 2013

Area Chair, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Nice Acropolis,

France, September 2012

Co-Chair of Biomedical Imaging Theme, IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine

and Biology (EMBC) 2012, San Diego, California, Sept. 2012

Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and

Functional Imaging, San Diego, California, February 2012

Program Committee, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging,

Monastery Irsee, Germany, July 2011


Functional Imaging, Orlando, Fl, February 2011

Program Committee, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Chicago, IL, April 2011

International Program Committee, IASTED Conference on Imaging and Signal Processing in

Healthcare and Technology (ISPHT 2011), Washington DC, USA, May 16 – 18, 2011.


Functional Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2010

Program Committee, Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Interventions, London, UK,

September 2009

http://www.iasted.org/conferences/cfp-737.html

Program Committee, Workshop on multimodal mining for clinical decision support, Medical Image

Computing & Computer Assisted Interventions, London, UK, September 2009


College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA, July 2009

Program Committee, 19th

International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, FL, December

2008

Area Chair, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, New York, NY,

September 2008

International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Biomedical

Engineering (BioMed 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007

Program Committee, Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications,

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 2008

Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007

Program Committee, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, The

Netherlands, July 2007

Co-Chair of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) Medical Imaging Symposium, San

Diego, California, Feb. 2007 [the medical imaging symposium consists of 7 parallel conference

attended by some 1200 people in 6 days]

Program Committee, From Statistical Atlases to Personalized Models: Understanding Complex

Diseases in Populations and Individuals, MICCAI 2006 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, October

6, 2006.

Program Committee, DEFORM’06, Workshop on Image Registration in Deformable Environments,

BMVC ’06, Edinburgh, UK, September 8, 2006

Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern

Recognition, New York City, NY, June 2006

Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, New

York City, NY, June 2006

Program Committee, 9th

European Conference on Computer Vision, Graz, Austria, May 2006

Program Committee, Workshop on Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, Graz,

Austria, May 2006



Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Vision, Beijing, China, October 2005


Glenwood Springs, Colorado, July 2005

Program Committee, Third International Workshop on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the

Heart, Barcelona, Spain, June 2005


Recognition, San Diego, California, June 2005



Scientific Committee, 8th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTERS Special Session on

Imaging and Image Processing of Dynamic Processes in Biology and Medicine Athens, Greece, July

12-15 2004


Recognition, Washington, D.C., June 2004

Program Committee, Workshop on Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis,

Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004



Conference Co-Chairperson, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Conference on

Physiology and Function from Medical Images, San Diego, California, February 2003, 2004, 2005,

2006

Program Committee, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Conference on Physiology

and Function from Multidimensional Images, San Diego, California, February 2002, 2007-

Program Committee, International Workshop on Growth and Motion in 3D Medical Images,

Copenhagen, Denmark June 2002.

Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, August

2002

Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis,

Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001

Scientific Review Panel, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer

Assisted Intervention, Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 2001

Member of Tutorial Board, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer

Assisted Intervention, Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 2001

Program Co-chair, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Hilton

Head, SC, June 2000

Program Co-chair, IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, San

Francisco, CA, June 1996

Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, Santa Barbara, CA, June 1998

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,

Santa Barbara, CA, June 1998

Program Committee, International Conference on Scale Space Theory, Utrecht University, The

Netherlands, 1997

Program Committee, IEEE Non-Rigid and Articulated Motion Workshop, Puerto Rico, June 1997

Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Vision, Princeton, NJ, October 1995

Program Committee, Physics-Based Modeling in Computer Vision, MIT, 1995

E. Professional Society Membership

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society [Fellow]

- Member of IEEE EMBS Technical Committee for Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers)

F. Service to University

Member, Speed School of Engineering Academic Integrity Review Committee, 2008-2010

Member, ECE Dept. Curriculum Committee, 2011-

University of Louisville Research MRI Equipment selection committee, 2010.

Professional or Public Recognition

A. Awards

US patent number 6757423: Method of processing of tagged MRI data indicative of tissue motion

including 4-D LV tissue tracking, issued on 6/29/2004, Mail Code: CCE32434 – Assignee: Barnes-

Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO.

US Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 61/618,081: Volumetric Deformable Registration

Method for 4-D X-ray Computed Tomography Images. M. Negahdar, A. Amini, N. Dunlap, S. Woo,

4/2/2012 – Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation.

U. S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 61/698,368: Multimodal Cardiac Phantom for

Imaging. V. Tavakoli and A. Amini, 9/10/2012 – Assignee: University of Louisville Research

Foundation.

Honorable Mention Paper Award - “Energy- Minimizing Grids for Tracking MR Tags”, P. Shi, A.

Amini, T. Constable and J. Duncan , Proceedings of the 18th Annual Northeast Bioengineering

Conference, Kingston, Rhode Island, April, 1992.

Honorable Mention Poster Award: “Cardiac motion tracking approach with multilevel B-splines and

SinMod from Tagged MRI”, Hui Wang and Amir A. Amini, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on

Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL, February

2011.

Finalist in the Best Student Paper Award – among top 8 from submissions from the entire symposium

[first author, advisee, M.R. Negahdar]: “A 3-D Optical Flow Technique based on Mass Conservation

for Deformable Motion Estimation from 4-D CT Images of the Lung,” M.R. Negahdar and Amir A

Amini, Society for Photooptical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February 2012.

Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2013). The

appointment as an EMBS Distinguished Lecturer is a major Society award, which recognizes

outstanding contributions in both research and education to the EMBS fields of interest.

B. Honors

At 18, youngest graduate of The University of Massachusetts, Amherst with high honors

[GPA=3.65/4.0, completed in 3 years]

Phi Kappa Phi

Etta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering honor society

Fellow of the IEEE (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) as of Jan. 1, 2007 with the

citation, ``for contributions to cardiovascular imaging and medical image analysis.’’

Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the Midwest 1998

Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World 1999, 2005

Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America 2000-

Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2005-

Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Education 2005-

Listed in Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 2007

University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning 2009 faculty favorite -- An

outstanding professor nominated by students

University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning 2011-2012 faculty favorite -- An

outstanding professor nominated by students

References

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