Current Research Projects

Sponsor

Project title or description

Department of Homeland Security, ALERT Center of Excellence Advanced image formation for material identification from dual energy X-ray CT; Segmentation methods for whole body imaging to reduce false alarms
Harvard Connectome Project Advanced segmentation methods for large scale neuronal tracking in electron microscopy data stacks
Tufts Medical Center Division of Rheumatology Level set methods for segmentation of bones, cartilage, and bone marrow lesions in knee MRI data stacks
National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute Segmentation-based imaging of he human breast from hyperspectral diffuse optical data for cancer identification
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) Metric Identification and Protocol Development for Characterizing DNAPL Source Zone Architecture and Associated Plume Response
National Science Foundation, Community Research Infrastructure II-EN: High-throughput and multimodality optical imaging in computational biology
National Science Foundation, Division of Earth Sciences Multi-modal, shape-based Inverse Methods for the Characterization of DNAPL Source Zone Architecture

Past Research Projects

National Science Foundation, Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Fusion of Electromagnetic and Mechanical Wave Data for Concrete Structure Diagnostics
National Science Foundation, Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Electrical Impedance Spectroscopic Sensor to Detect Tunnels and Infrastructure in Soil
National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute Ultrasonic Image Guidance for HIFU Cancer Treatment
Northeastern University Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems Diffuse Wave Imaging and Quantitative Ultrasound
Center for Biotechnology and Informatics, Methodist Hospital Research Institute Advanced methods for 3D neuronal data sets
Laboratory for Biooptics and Molecular Imaging Compuationally efficient methods for large scale flourescence molecular tomography
National Science Foundation, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Inverse Scattering Models and Algorithms for Functional Brain Imaging with Diffuse Optical Wavefields
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) Statistical and Physics Based Methods for Unexploded Ordnance Discriminaton from EMI Data
Textron Systems Division in Wilmington, MA

Graph-based methods for robust 3D object recognition

National Science Foundation, Division of Microelectronic and Information Processing Systems Toward a Unified Approach to Diffuse Wave Inverse Problems
Air Force Reasearch Laboratory Information Directorate Mapping Backprojection to the Heterogeneous HPC Cluster for SAR Image Formation
National Science Foundation, Division of Microelectronic and Information Processing Systems CAREER development award to to support educational and research activities focused on the study of inverse methods in an electrical engineering curriculum.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research under a MURI grant Reduced signature automatic target recognition 
The Department of Energy under a grant from the Idaho National Energy Laboratory Array processing algorithms for detection and localization of buried objects.
MRI Group at Brigham and Woman's Hospital Adaptive Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NMR Group at Mass. General Hospital Volumetric Brain Warping for Registration of fMRI
Photothermal and Optoelectronic Diagnostic Laboratories at the University of Toronto Wavefield-based inversion methods for photothermal non-destructive evaluation 
Army Research Office demining MURI Physics-based signal and image processing for the detection, localization, and classification of buried landmines.
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program A Unified Approach to the Processing and Fusion of Time and Frequency Domain EMI Data for UXO Discrimination
SAIC/US Army Enhanced Technology for Vehicular Demining Sensors and Systems 
Textron Systems Division in Wilmington, MA Automatic target recognition in infrared images 
Advanced Research Technologies Time Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography
DOE/Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab Advanced Processing Methods for Environmental Monitoring
Mercury Computer Implementation of Back Projection on Reconfigurable Hardware