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Dr. Amini (CV)
has been elected an IEEE Fellow, effective January
1, 2007 with the following citation: "for contributions to
cardiovascular imaging and medical image analysis". The fellow grade
is the highest level of membership conferred only by invitation of the
Board of Directors upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary
qualifications and experience in IEEE designated fields, and who has made
important individual contributions to one or more of these fields. With
more than 365,000 members in over 150 countries, IEEE is the world's
largest professional society dedicated to the advancement of technology.
Only 0.1 percent of the active membership worldwide can be elevated to the
rank of fellow in any given year.
Dr. Amini received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst
in 1983 with honors where at 18 he was the youngest member of his
graduating class. He received an MSE in Electrical Engineering (systems) in
1984 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Michigan, Ann
Arbor in 1990. After Postdoctoral work in Biomedical
Image Analysis at Yale
University he was on
Yale faculty for 4 years. He then joined Washington
University to
establish his own laboratory (the Cardiovascular Image Analysis Laboratory)
where he stayed for 10 years. He joined the University
of Louisville Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department August 1st as Endowed Chair in
Bioimaging and full professor with support from the Kentucky Research
Challenge Trust.
Dr. Amini participated on the scientific program committee of numerous
conferences and workshops in the area of medical imaging and image analysis
and was the organizer of the IEEE workshop on biomedical image analysis in
April 1996 and May 2000. He has served as the general chair of SPIE Medical
Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical
Images between 2002-2006 and was the general co-chair of the SPIE Medical
Imaging Symposium in February of 2007. He is also on the editorial board of
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Dr. Amini's research interests are focused on medical imaging and
biomedical image processing and analysis. Areas of general interest include
physiologic imaging and image analysis: primarily the task of
extracting information from medical images acquired from X-ray projection
and CT devices, MR imagers, nuclear medicine scanners, and ultrasound in an
automated and reproducible way. Areas of particular interest include
development of new techniques for quantification of the heart motion from
cardiac MRI and its
application to determination of mechanical strain. In the area of vascular
imaging his interests are in developing techniques to determine
intravascular pressures, shear stress, and other mechanical indices of
function from phase-contrast MR images. He also has an interest in
automated morphometrics for determination of anatomical volumes, shapes,
etc.
He has receive support from the National Institutes of Health, the National
Science Foundation, the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Foundation and the
BJH Foundation
Educational
Background
Selected
Publications
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- A.
Moghaddam, G. Beherens, N. Fatouraee, R. Aggarwal, E. Choi, and A.
Amini, "Factors affecting the accuracy of pressure measurements
in vascular stenoses from phase-contrast MRI",
Magn.
Reson. Med., August 2004; 52(2): 300-309.
- A.
Amini and J. L. Prince, Eds., Measurement of Cardiac Deformations
from MRI: Physical and
Mathematical Models. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
, The Netherlands
, December 2001.
- N.
Fatouraee and A. Amini, "Regularization of flow streamlines from
phase-contrast MRI",
IEEE Trans. on
Medical Imaging, June 2003; 22(6), 699-709.
- Y.
Wang and A. Amini, " Integrable Pressure Gradients via
Harmonics-Based Orthogonal Projection," Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Volume 3565, Christensen and Sonka (Eds.),
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, July 2005.
- J.
Chen and A. Amini, " Quantifying 3D Vascular Structures in MRA
Images Using Hybrid PDE
and Geometric Deformable Models," IEEE Trans. on Medical
Imaging, October 2004; 23(10), 1251-1262.
- A.
Amini, Y. Chen, R. Curwen, V. Mani, and J. Sun, "Coupled B-Snake
Grids and Constrained Thin-Plate Splines for Analysis of 2D Tissue
Deformations from Tagged MRI,"
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, June 1998; 17(3),
344-356.
Other
Interests
Various sports, especially
basketball and soccer, in addition to racquet sports.
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