Aly A. Farag, PhD

Research Program

Structural Biology

Education

Education/Training

B.S., Cairo University, Cairo Egypt, Electrical Engineering, 1976

M.S., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Biomedical Engineering, 1981

M.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Bioengineering, 1984

Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Electrical Engineering, 1990


Research and Professional Experience

1977-1979
Engineer,
Cairo University College of Engineering, Egypt

1983-1984
Engineer,
University of Michigan Hospital

1984-1985
Engineer,
Biomedical Engineering Center, West Lafayette, Indiana

1986-1989
Teaching & Research Associate,
Purdue University, School of Electrical Engineering

1989-1990
Visiting Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota, Dept. of Computer Engineering

1990-1995
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Louisville

1993-Present
Adjunct Professor of Imaging and Dental Radiology,
School of Dentistry, University of Louisville

1995-Present 
Director, Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory (CVIP Lab),
University of Louisville

1999-Present
Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery,
School of Medicine, University of Louisville

1999-Present
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Louisville

2000-Present  
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Louisville

Selected Awards and Professional Honors

Senior Member,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Senior Member,
Society of Manufacturing Engineers

1999
University of Louisville President’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity

2000-2002
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Publications

Ahmed MN, Farag AA. Two-stage Neural Network for Volume Segmentation of Medical Images. Pattern Recognition Letters 18(11-13):1143-1151, 1997.

Yamany SM, Khiani K, Farag AA. Application of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms in the Classification of Endothelial Cells. Pattern Recognition Letters 18(11-13):1205-1210, 1997.

Yamany SM, Ahmed MN, Farag AA. Novel Surface Registration Using the Grid Closest Point (GCP) Transform. Proc. IEEE, Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'99) 3:809-813, 1998.

Mohamed NA, Ahmed MN, Farag AA. Modified Fuzzy C_Mean in Medical Image Segmentation. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Engineering Medicine and Biological Sciences (EMBS'98) 20(3):1377-1380, 1998.

Guidry DL, Farag AA. Active Contours: An Overview with Applications to Motion Artifact Cancellation in MRI. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering Medicine and Biological Sciences (EMBS'98) 20(2):644-647, 1998

Ahmed MN, Yamany SM, Mohamed NA, Farag AA. A Modified Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for MRI Bias-Field Estimation and Adaptive Segmentation. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention  (MICCAI’99) pp. 72-81, 1999.

Yamany SM, Farag AA, Farman A, Tasman D. Robust 3-D Reconstruction of the Human Jaw from Video Images. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention  (MICCAI’99) pp. 778-787, 1999.

Guidry DL, Farag AA. Using Active Contours and Fourier Descriptors for Motion Tracking with Applications in MRI.  Proc IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP'99), 1999.

Mohamed NA, Ahmed MN, Farag AA. Modified fuzzy C_mean in medical image segmentation. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'99) 6:3429-3432, 1999.

Ehringer WD, Yamany SM, Steier K, Farag AA, Roisen FJ, Dozier A, Miller FN. Quantitative Image Analysis of F_Actin in Endothelial Cells.  Microcirculation 6:291-303, 1999.

Yamany SM, Ahmed MN, Farag AA. A new genetic-based technique for matching 3D curves and surfaces. Pattern Recognition 32(10):1817-1820, 1999.

Eldeib A, Yamany SM, Farag AA. Multi-modal Medical Volumes Fusion by Surface Matching.  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’99) pp. 672-679, 1999.

Yamany SM, Farag AA, Tasman D, Farman AG. Robust 3-D Modeling of the Human Jaw Using Sequence of Intra-Oral Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 19(5):538-547, 2000.

 

 

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