LaISR Publications

Journal publications

• Multiscale Modeling and Inversion
• Geometric and Shape-Based Modeling and Inversion
• Physical Modeling and Computational Methods
• General Physics-based Processing and Inverse Problems
• General Signal and Image Processing

Theses

• Doctorates
• Masters

Journal Publications

Multiscale Modeling and Inversion

• Baussard, Alexandre, Miller, Eric L., and Lesselier, Dominique, “Adaptive Multiscale Reconstruction of Buried Targets,” Inverse Problems: SPECIAL ISSUE: Electromagnetic characterization of buried obstacles. Vol. 20, No. 6, December 2004, S1-S15. © 2004 IOP. doi:10.1088/0266-5611/20/6/S01
  
• Baussard, Alexandre, Miller, Eric L., and Prémel, Denis, “Adaptive B-spline scheme for solving an inverse scattering problem,” Inverse Problems , Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 347-365. © 2004 IOP.  doi:10.1088/0266-5611/20/2/003
  
• Eric L. Miller, Ibrahim Yavuv, Lena Nicolaides, and Andreas Mandelis, "An adaptive, multiscale inverse scattering approach to photothermal depth profilometry," Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing,  Vol. 19, No. 4, July 2000, pp. 339-363.  The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com doi:10.1007/BF01200892
  
• Belge, M., Kilmer, M. and Miller, Eric L.,  "Wavelet Domain Image Restoration with Adaptive Edge-Preserving Regularization," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 9, No. 4, April 2000, pp. 598-608. © 2000 IEEE
  
• Dufour, Roger and Miller, Eric L, "Statistical Signal Restoration with Wavelet Domain Prior Models," Signal Processing, Vol. 78, 1999, pp. 289-307. doi:10.1016/S0165-1684(99)00069-9
  
• Miller, Eric L., "Efficient Computational Methods for Wavelet Domain Signal Restoration Problems," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 4, April 1999, pp. 1184-1188. © 1999 IEEE. doi:10.1109/78.752622
  
• Miller, Eric L., "Statistically Based Methods for Anomaly Characterization in Images from Observations of Scattered Radiation," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 92-101.© 1999 IEEE doi:10.1109/83.736694
  
• Miller, Eric L., Nicolaides, Lena, and Mandelis, Andreas, "Nonlinear inverse scattering methods for thermal wave slice tomography: A wavelet domain approach," Journal of the Optical Society of America (A), Vol 15, No. 6, June 1998, pp. 1545-1556. © 1998 OSA. doi:10.1364/JOSAA.15.001545
  
• Miller, Eric L. and Willsky, Alan S., "Multiscale, Statistical Anomaly Detection Analysis and Algorithms for Linearized Inverse Scattering Problems,'' Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing , vol 8, pp. 151-184. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com doi:10.1023/A:1008277108555
  
• Miller, Eric L. and Willsky, Alan S., "Wavelet-based methods for the nonlinear inverse scattering problem using the Extended Born Approximation,'' Radio Science, vol. 31 no. 1 pp. 51-67.  © 1996 AGU To view the published open abstract click here.
  
• Miller, Eric L. and Willsky, Alan S., "A Multiscale, Statistically-Based Inversion Scheme for the Linearized, Inverse Scattering Problem,'' IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 34, No. 2, 1996, pp 346-357.  © 1996 IEEE, doi:10.1109/36.485112
  
• Miller, Eric L. and Willsky, Alan S., A Multiscale Approach to Sensor Fusion and the Solution of Linear Inverse Problems,'' Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis , vol. 2, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 127-147. doi:10.1006/acha.1995.1009

Geometric/Shape-Based Modeling and Inversion

• Ulker Karbeyaz, Basak, Miller, Eric L., Cleveland, Robin O., “Geometry-Based Imaging for Ultrasonic Monitoring of Cancer Treatment,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, to appear
• Boverman, Gregory, Fang, Quinauin,  Miller, Eric L., Brooks, Dana H., Moore, Richard H., Kopans, Daniel B. and Boas, David A., “Estimation and Statistical Bounds for Three-Dimensional Polar Shapes in Diffuse Optical Tomography,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, to appear.
• Miled, M. K. Ben Hadj and Miller, Eric L., “A projection-based level-set approach to enhance conductivity anomaly reconstruction in electrical resistance tomography,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 23, pp. 2375-2400. © 2004 IOP.  doi:10.1088/0266-5611/23/6/007
• Firoozabadi, R., Miller, E. L., Rappaport C. M., and, Morgenthaler, A. W., “Subsurface Sensing of Buried Objects under a Randomly Rough Surface Using Scattered Electromagnetic Field Data,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 104-117. © 2007 IEEE. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2006.883462
• El-Shenawee, Magda and Miller, Eric L., “Spherical Harmonics Wideband Polarimetric Algorithm for Shape and Location Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Malignant Breast Cancer Tumor,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 2006, pp. 1258-1271. © 2006 IEEE. doi:10.1109/TMI.2006.881377
• Kilmer, Misha, Miller Eric L., Barbaro, Alethea, Boas David A., “3D Shape-Based Imaging for Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Applied Optics Special Issue on Topics in Biomedical Optics, Vol. 42, No. 16, June 1, 2003, pp. 3129-3144.  © 2003 OSA. doi:10.1364/AO.42.003129
  
• Boverman, Gregory, Miled, Mohamed Khames, Miller, Eric L., “Recent Work in Shape-Based Methods for Diffusive Inverse Problems,” Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 74, No. 4, April 2003, pp. 2580-2582.
  
• Dufour, Roger, Miller, Eric L., Galatsanos, Nikolas, “Template Matching Based Object Recognition with Unknown Geometric Parameters”, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 11, No. 12, December 2002, pp. 1385-1396.  © 2002 IEEE doi:10.1109/TIP.2002.806245
  
• Kilmer, Misha E., Miller, Eric L., Boas, David, Brooks, Dana, "A Shape-Based Reconstruction Technique for DPDW Data,"  Optics Express focus issue on Diffuse Optical Tomography, Vol. 7, No. 13, December 18, 2000, pp. 481-491. © 2000 OSA. Online abstract available here.
  
• Dorn, Oliver, Miller, Eric L. and Rappaport, Carey M, "A shape reconstruction method for electromagnetic tomography using adjoint fields and level sets,"  Inverse Problems, Vol. 16, No. 5, October 2000, pp. 1119-1156. © 2000 IOP. doi:10.1088/0266-5611/16/5/303
  
• Miller, Eric L., Kilmer, Misha, and Rappaport, Carey, "A New Shape-Based Method for Object Localization and Characterization from Scattered Field Data," IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 38, No. 4, July 2000, pp. 1682-1696. © 2000 IEEE.  doi:10.1109/36.851967

Physical Modeling and Computational Methods

• Ulker Karbeyaz, Basak, Miller, Eric L., Cleveland, Robin O., “Semi-analytical computation of the acoustic field of a segment of a cylindrically concave transducer in lossless and attenuating media  ,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007, pp. 1226—1237. © 2007 ASA. This article appeared in JASA and may be found at doi:10.1121/1.2409489 .
• Szabo, Thomas L., Karbeyaz, Basak Ulker, Cleveland, Robin O., and Miller, Eric L. "Determining the pulse-echo electromechanical characteristic of a transducer using flat-plates and point targets," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 116, No 1, pp. 90-96. © 2004 ASA. This article appeared in JASA and may be found at doi:10.1121/1.1756893.
  
• Kilmer, Misha, Miller, Eric L., and Rappaport, Carey, "QMR-Based Projection Techniques for the Solution of Non-Hermitian Systems with Multiple Right Hand Sides," SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, Vol. 23 No. 3, 2001, pp. 761-780. © 2001 SIAM.  doi:10.1137/S1064827599355542
  
• Rappaport, Carey M., Kilmer, Misha and Miller, Eric L. "Accuracy Considerations in Using the PML ABC with FDFD Helmholtz Equation Computation", International Journal of Numerical Modeling, Vol. 13, 2000, pp. 471-482. © 2000 Wiley.  doi:10.1002/1099-1204(200009/10)13:5<471::AID-JNM378>3.0.CO;2-A
  
• Marengo, Edwin A., Rappaport, Carey M., Miller, Eric L., "Optimum PML ABC Conductivity Profile in FDFD."  IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, Vol. 35, No. 3 May 1999, pp. 1506-1509. © 1999 IEEE doi:10.1109/20.767253
  
• Sahin, Adnan, and Miller, Eric L., "Recursive T-Matrix Methods for Scattering From Multiple Dielectric and Metallic Objects," IEEE Trans, Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 46, No. 5, May 1998, pp. 672-678. © 1998 IEEE.  doi:10.1109/8.668910
  
• Sahin, A and Miller, Eric L., "Recursive T-Matrix Algorithm for Multiple Metallic Cylinders," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 15, No. 6, August, 1997, pp. 360-363. © 1997 Wiley.doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-2760(19970820)15:6<360::AID-MOP7>3.0.CO;2-C
  

General Physics-Based Processing and Inverse Problems

• Aliamiri, Alireza, Stalnaker, Jack, and Miller, Eric L., “Statistical Classification Of Buried Unexploded Ordnance Using Non-Parametric Prior Models,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, No. 9, September 2007, pp. 2794-2806. © 1998 IEEE.   doi:10.1109/TGRS.2007.900681 
• Hyde, Damon, Miller Eric L., Brooks, Dana H., and Ntziachristos, Vasilis, “A Statistical Approach to Inverting the Born Ratio,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 27, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 893-905. © 2007 IEEE.  doi:10.1109/TMI.2007.895467
• Hyde, Damon, Kilmer, Misha E., Brooks, Dana H., and Miller, Eric L., “Analysis And Exploitation Of Matrix Structure Arising In Linearized Optical Tomographic Imaging,” SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 29, No. 4,  2007, 1065-1083. © 2007 SIAM.  doi:10.1137/060657285
• Boverman, Gregory, Fang, Qianqian, Carp, Stefan A., Miller, Eric L., Brooks, Dana H., Selb, Juliette, Moore, Richard H, Kopans, Daniel B., and Boas David A., “Spatio-Temporal Imaging of the Hemoglobin in the Compressed Breast With Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 52, 2007, pp. 3619-3641. © 2007 IOP.  doi:10.1088/0031-9155/52/12/018
• Tarokh, A. B. and Miller, Eric L., “Subsurface Sensing Under Sensor Positional Uncertainty,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol.45, No. 3, March 2007, pp. 675-688. © 2007 IEEE.  doi:10.1109/TGRS.2006.888851
• Boverman, Gregory, Miller, Eric L., Li, Ang, Zhang, Quan, Chaves, Tina, Brooks, Dana H., Boas, David A., “Quantitative Spectroscopic Diffuse Optical Tomography of the Breast Guided by Imperfect A Priori Structural Information,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 50, No. 17, 3941-3956, 2005. © 2005 IOP.  doi:10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/002
  
• Li A, Boverman G, Zhang Y, Brooks D, Miller EL, Kilmer ME, Zhang Q, Hillman EMC and Boas DA., “Optimal linear inverse solution with multiple priors in diffuse optical tomography,” Applied Optics 44(10): 1948-1956. 2005."© 2005 OSA.  doi:10.1364/AO.44.001948
  
• El Shenawee, Magda and Miller, Eric L., “Multiple-Incidence and Multi-Frequency for Profile Reconstruction of Random Rough Surfaces Using the 3-D Electromagnetic Fast Multipole Model,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 11, November 2004, pp. 2499-2510.  © 2004 IEEE. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2004.834762 
  
• Li, Ang, Zhang, Q., Culver, J. P., Miller, E. L., and Boas, D.A., “Reconstructing Chromophore Concentration Images Directly by Continuous-Wave Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Optics Letters, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 256-258. © 2003 OSA. doi:10.1364/OL.29.000256
  
• Li, Ang, Miller, Eric L., Kilmer, Misha E., Brukilacchio1, Thomas J., Chaves, Tina, Stott, Jonathan, Zhang, Quan, Wu, Tao, Chorlton, MaryAnn, Moore, Richard H., Kopans, Daiel B., and Boas, David A. “Tomographic Optical Breast Imaging Guided by 3-D Mammography,” Applied Optics, Vol. 42, No. 25, Sept 1, 2003, pp.5181-5191.  © 2003 OSA. doi:10.1364/AO.42.005181
  
• Miller, Eric L., Cheney, Margaret, Kilmer Misha K., Boverman, Gregory, Li, Ang, Boas, David, “Feature-Enhancing Methods for Limited View Tomographic Imaging Problems,” Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 2003, pp. 327-353.   The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com doi:10.1023/A:1026304732232
  
• Xu, Xiaoyin, Miller Eric L., and Rappaport, Carey M., “Minimum entropy regularization in frequency-wavenumber migration to localize subsurface objects,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 8, August 2003, pp. 1804-1812.  © 2003 IEEE doi:10.1109/TGRS.2003.813497 
  
• Belge, Murat, Kilmer Misha, Miller, Eric L., “Efficient Determination of Multiple Regularization Parameters in a Generalized L-Curve Framework,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 18, August 2002, pp. 1161-1183. © 2002 IOP. doi:10.1088/0266-5611/18/4/314
  
• Boas, D.A., Brooks, D.H., Miller, E.L., DiMarzio, C.A., Kilmer, M., Gaudette, R.J., Quan, Zhang, “Imaging the body with diffuse optical tomography,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 6, November 2001, pp. 57—75. © 2001 IEEE. doi:10.1109/79.962278
  
• El-Shenawee, M., Rappaport, C., Miller, E., Silevitch, M., "3-D Subsurface Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Penetrable/PEC Objects Buried under Rough Surfaces: Use of the Steepest Decent Fast Multilevel Multipole (SDFMM) Technique," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, special issue on subsurface sensing, Vol. 39, No. 6, June 2001, pp. 1174-1182. © 2001 IEEE. doi:10.1109/36.927436
  
• Miller, Eric L., "Introduction to Optics Express focus issue on Diffuse Optical Tomography," Optics Express special issue on Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) and related inverse problems, Vol. 7, No. 13, December 18, 2000, p. 461. © 2000 OSA
  
• Richard J. Gaudette, Dana H. Brooks, Charles A. DiMarzio, Misha E. Kilmer, Eric L. Miller, Tom Gaudette, David A. Boas, "A comparison study of linear reconstruction techniques for diffuse optical tomographic imaging of absorption coefficient," Phys. Med. Bio., Vol. 45, No. 4, April 2000, pp. 1051-1070. © 2000 IOP. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/45/4/318
  
• Belge, Murat and Miller, Eric L., "A Sliding Window RLS-like Adaptive Filtering Algorithm for Filtering a-stable Noise," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 2000, pp. 86-89. © 2000 IEEE doi:10.1109/97.833005

General Image and Signal Processing

• Srinivasan, Ranga, Zhou, Xiaobo Zhou, Miller Eric L.,, Lu, Ju, Litchman, Jeff, Wong, Stephen TC, “Automated Axon Tracking of 3D Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Images Using Guided Probabilistic Region Merging,” Neuroinformatics, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 189-203.  The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com doi:10.1007/s12021-007-0013-4
• Jagannathan, A., and Miller, Eric L., “3D Surface Mesh Segmentation Using A Curvedness-Based Region Growing Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 12, December, 2007, pp. 2195-2204. © 2007 IEEE. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2007.112
• Cheng, Jie, Zhou, Xiaobo, Miller, Eric, Witt, Rochelle M., Zhu, Jinmin, Sabatini, Bernardo L., and Wong, Steven T. C., “A Novel Computational Approach for Automatic Dendrite Spines Detection in Two-Photon Laser Scan Microscopy,” Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vol. 165, 2007, pp. 122-134. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.05.020
  
• Coric, Srdjan, Leeser, Miriam, Miller, Eric, and Trepanier, Marc, “Parallel-Beam Backprojection: an FPGA Implementation Optimized for Medical Imaging,” The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing-Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Volume 39, Number 3 (2005).  The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com doi:10.1007/s11265-005-4846-5
• Tarokh, A. B., Miller, E. L. , Won, I. J. and Huang, H., “Statistical classification of buried objects from spatially sampled time or frequency domain electromagnetic induction data,” Radio Science, Vol 39, Np. 4, July/August, 2004, p RS4S05-1-RS4S05-11.   © 2004 AGU. To view the published open abstract go to doi:10.1029/2003RS002951
• Xu, Xiaoyin, Miller, Eric L., Chen Dongbin, and Sarhadi, Mansoor, “Adaptive Two-pass Median Filter to Remove Impulse Noise in Highly Corrupted Images,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 13, No. 2, February, 2004, p 238-247. © 2004 IEEE. doi:10.1109/TIP.2004.823827
• Hoge, W. Scott, Miller, Eric L., Lev-Ari, Hanoch, Brooks, Dana H., and Panych, Lawrence P., “A Doubly Adaptive Approach to Dynamic MRI Sequence Estimation,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 11, No. 10, October 2002, pp. 1168 - 1178 © 2002 IEEE doi:10.1109/TIP.2002.804272
• Xu, Xiaoyin, Miller, Eric L., Rappaport, Carey, and Sower, Gary, “Statistical Method to Detect Subsurface Objects Using Array Ground Penetrating Radar Data,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 40, No. 4, April 2002 pp. 963 -976. © 2002 IEEE. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2002.1006391
• Hoge, Wm. Scott, Miller, Eric L., Lev-Ari, Hanoch, Brooks, Dana H., Karl, W. Clem, Panych, Lawrence, "An Efficient Region of Interest Acquisition Method for Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 10, No. 7, July 2001, pp.1118-1128. © 2001 IEEE doi:10.1109/83.931105
• Sahin, Adnan and Miller, Eric L., "Model-Based Multiple Object Detection Using High-Resolution Near Field Array Processing,"  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 39, No. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 136-141. © 2001 IEEE. doi:10.1109/36.898675
• Sahin, Adnan and Miller, Eric L., "Electromagnetic Scattering-Based Array Processing Methods for Near-Field Object Characterization,"  Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Vol. 13, 1999, pp. 1209-1236. 

Theses

Doctorates

• Reza Firoozabadi, Physics-Based Solutions to Inverse Problems with Application in Biomedical Imaging and Environmental Remediation, PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA, 2007.
• Gregory Boverman, Model-Based Approaches to the Solution of the Inverse Problem for Diffuse Optical Tomography,  PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA, 2007.
• Alireza Aliamiri, Statistical Methods for Unexploded Ordnance Discrimination, PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA,  2006
• Basak Ulker Karbeyaz, Modeling and Geometric Inverse Methods for Wideband Ultrasonic Imaging, PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA,  2005.
• Anupama Jagannathan, Segmentation and recognition of 3D point clouds within graph-theoretic and thermodynamic frameworks, PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA, 2005.
• Ashley Beeta Tarokh, Shape-based methods for linear inverse problems, PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA,  2005.
• Roger Dufour, "Target Classification and Parameter Estimation with a Deformable Template Library", PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA,  2003.
• Xiaoyin Xu, "Statistical Methods in Subsurface Object Detection and Localization from Ground Penetrating Radar," PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA,  2002.
• Wm. Scott Hoge, "An Adaptive Signal Processing Approach to Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging", PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,  2001.
• Murat Belge, "Multiscale and Curvature Methods for the Regularization of Linear Inverse Problems," PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1999.
• Adnan Sahin, "Near Field Forward Scattering, And Object-Based Localization Algorithms For Subsurface Objects," PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1998.

Masters

• Ranga Sharath Srinivasan, 3-D Centerline Extraction of Axons in Confocal Microscopic Stacks,   MS Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,  2006.
• Andrey Krokhin, Super-resolution processing of infrared imagery, MS Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,  2005.
• Damon Hyde, "Improving Forward Matrix Generation and Utilization for Time Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography," MS Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, , 2004
• Greg Boverman, "Modeling and Nonlinear Inversion for Frequency Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography," MS Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2003
• Beeta Tarokh, "A Unified Approach to Statistical Classification of Buried Objects from Spatially Sampled Electromagnetic Induction Data," MS Thesis,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2003.
• Mustafa Ozdemir, "Statistical Clutter Modeling and Localization and Characterization of Buried Objects Using Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Induction Sensing," MS Project,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,  2001.
• Xin Li, "An Adaptive B-Spline Method for Low Order Image Reconstruction Problems", MS Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,  2001.
• Patrick Rennich, "Investigation of a Volumetric Technique for Registration of Magnetic Resonance Images of the Human Brain", MS Project, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,  2001.
• Ibrahim Yavuz,  "A Method for Reducing the Complexity of Inverse Problems," MS Project, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, December, 1999.
• Mr. Xiaoyin Xu, "Signal modeling and detection methods for objects traveling fast relative to the speed of propagation in the medium," MS Project, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1998
• Tzipora Halevi, "Statistical Methods for Object Detection in a Three Dimensional Volume," MS Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1997
• Roger Dufour, "Statistical Estimation with 1/f-type prior models," MS Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,  1997.