Jonghye (Joshua) Woo

Research Interest

Image Processing and Computer Vision application to Medical Image Analysis especially Cardiac Image Analysis

    
Education

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

       Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing Institute), Dec 2009

       M.S., Electrical Engineering, May 2007

    Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

       B.S., Electrical engineering, Mar 1998 ~ May 2005

    
Research Experience

     Research Associate, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Sep 2009-Current

     Research Assistant, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA,  Aug 2006-Aug 2009

     Graduate Researcher, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Jan 2008-May 2009

     Summer Research Intern, Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA, May 2009-Aug 2009

     Visiting Researcher, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Boston, MA, Aug 2006-Dec 2006

Publication

2010

Nonlinear Registration of Serial Coronary CT Angiography (CCTA) for Monitoring Plaque Development
Jonghye Woo, D.Dey, V.Cheng, B.-W. Hong, A. Ramesh, G. Sundaramoorthi, R.Nakazato, D.S. Berman, G. Germano, C.-C. Jay Kuo, P.J. Slomka / Medical Physics, 2010 (tentatively accepted)

3D TEE Registration with Pre-operative MR for Interventional Cardiac Applications
Jonghye Woo, V. Parthasarathy, S. Dalal and A. Jain / SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, San Diego, CA, 2010 (Accepted)

Automated Registration of Cardiac Stress and Rest CT for Determination of Transient Ischemic Dilation
Jonghye Woo, et al. IEEE ISBI 2010 (submitted)

2009

Geometric Feature-based Multi-modal Image Registration of Contrast-enhanced Cardiac CT with Gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
Jonghye Woo, P. J. Slomka, D. Dey, V. Cheng, B.-W. Hong, A. Ramesh, D.S. Berman, R.P. Karlsberg, C. -C. Jay Kuo and G. Germano / Medical Physics, 36(12), Dec, 2009 (in press)

Combined Quantitative Analysis of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Co-registered with 64-slice Coronary CT Angiography
P. J. Slomka, V. Cheng, D. Dey, J. Woo, A. Ramesh, S.V. Kriekinge, Y. Suzuki, Y. Elad, R. Karlsberg, D. S. Berman and G. Germano /Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 50(10), pp 1621-1630, Oct, 2009

Non-rigid Ultrasound Image Registration Based on Intensity and Local Phase Information
Jonghye Woo, B.-W. Hong, C. Hu, K. K. Shung, C.-C. Jay Kuo and P.J. Slomka / Journal of Signal Processing System: Special Issue on Biomedical Imaging, 54(1), pp 33-43, Jan, 2009

Automated Multi-modality Registration of 64-slice Coronary CT Angiography with Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
Jonghye Woo, P.J. Slomka, D. Dey, V. Cheng, A. Ramesh, B.-W. Hong, D.S. Berman, C.-C. Jay Kuo, G. Germano / IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Boston, MA, June 2009 (Oral)

Feature-based Non-rigid Volume Registration of Serial Coronary CT Angiography
Jonghye Woo, B.-W. Hong, D. Dey, G. Sundaramoorthi, A. Ramesh, G. Germano, V. Cheng, C.-C. Jay Kuo and P. Slomka / SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging: Image Processing, Orlando, Florida, Feb, 2009 (Oral)

Curve Evolution with A Dual Shape Similarity and Its Application to Segmentation of Left Ventricle
Jonghye Woo, B.-W. Hong, A. Ramesh, G. Germano, C.-C. Jay Kuo and P. Slomka/ SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging: Image Processing, Orlando, Florida, Feb, 2009

Automated Co-registration of Coronary CT Angiography with Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
Jonghye Woo, P. Slomka, C.-C. Jay Kuo, V. Cheng, D. Dey, D. Berman, G. Germano / SNM (abstract), Toronto, June 2009 

2008

Multimodal Data Integration for Computer-Aided Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Jonghye Woo, B.-W. Hong, S. Kumar, I. B. Ray and C.-C. Jay Kuo, / Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (JBB), Volume 2008, Hindawi, February, 2008 (invited)

2007

Joint Reconstruction and Registration Using Level Sets: Application to Computer-aided Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Jonghye Woo, B.-W. Hong, S. Kumar, I. B. Ray and C.-C. Jay Kuo, / IEEE FBIT, Jeju, Korea, Oct 2007 (Oral)

Last  Updated : Nov, 14, 2009