Yaorong Ge, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Wake Forest University Health Sciences 
Medical Center Blvd. 
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1022 

Phone:  336-716-5486
E-mail: yge@wfubmc.edu



EDUCATION:

	B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
	M.S., Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
	Ph.D., Computer Science - Medical Imaging, Vanderbilt University

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

	Medical imaging, computer vision and image processing with special interests in shape analysis, image registration, image segmentation, and pattern recognition
	Medical informatics as applied to modeling, analysis, and data mining of clinical information and its use in computer aided diagnosis, disease trending and health statistics analysis

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

	C. Wyatt, E. Bayram and Y. Ge, “A minimum reliable scale selection in 3D”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 481 – 487, 2006.
	C. Wyatt, Y. Ge and D. Vining, “Segmentation in virtual colonoscopy using a geometric deformable model”, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 30, no. 1, 17 – 30, 2006.
	E. Bayram, Y. Ge, C. Wyatt, “Confidence based anisotropic filtering of Magnetic Resonance Images”, IEEE EMBS Magazine, September-October 2002.
	C. Wyatt, Y. Ge and D. Vining, “Automatic segmentation of the colon for virtual colonoscopy”, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1 – 9, 2000.
	Y. Ge, J. Wang, D. Stelts, and D. Vining, “Computing the centerline of a colon: a robust and efficient method based on 3D skeletons”, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 786 – 794, 1999.
	J. Wang and Y. Ge, “An optimization problem in Virtual Endoscopy”, Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 207, no.1, pp. 203 – 216, 1998.
	D. Vining, G. Ferretti, D. Stelts, D. Ahn, Y. Ge, E. Haponik, “Mediastinal lymph node mappinig using spiral CT and three dimentional reconstructions in patients with lung cancer”, Journal of Bronchology, vol. 4, pp. 18 – 25, 1997.
	Y. Ge and J. M. Fitzpatrick, “On the generation of skeletons from discrete Euclidean distance maps”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1055 – 1066, 1996.
	Y. Ge, J. M. Fitzpatrick, B. M. Dawant, J. Bao, R. M. Kessler, and R. A. Margolin, “Accurate localization of cortical convolutions in MR brain images”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 418 – 428, 1996.
	Y. Ge and J. M. Fitzpatrick, J. R. Votaw, S. Gadamsetty, R. J. Maciunas, R. M. Kessler, and R. A. Margolin, “Retrospective registration of PET and MR brain images: an algorithm and its stereotactic validation”, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 800 – 810, 1994.
	Y. Ge and J. M. Fitzpatrick, “A set of one-to-one two dimensional biquadratic transformations”, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 13 – 25, 1994.