(a) Refereed Journal Articles

1. M. Sabry Hassouna, Alaa Abdel-Hakim and Aly A. Farag, “PDE-Based Robust Robotic Navigation,” Image, Vision and Computing – In Press --  On line can be uploaded from http://authors.elsevier.com/redirect/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2007.03.005

2. H. Shi, Aly A. Farag, R. Fahmi and D. Chen, “Validation of Finite Element Models of Liver Tissue using Micro-CT and CBCT,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering – Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 978-984, March 2008.

3. M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, “Multi-Stencils Fast Marching Methods: A Highly Accurate Solution to the Eikonal Equation on Cartesian Domain,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – Vol. 29, No. 9, pp. 1563-1574, September 2007.

4. Hossam Abd EL Munim and Aly A. Farag, “Curve/Surface Representation and Evolution using Vector Level Sets with Application to the Shape-based Segmentation Problem," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 945-958, June 2007.

5. Manuel F. Casanova, Aly Farag, Ayman EL-BAZ, Meghan Mott, Hossam Hassan, Rachid Fahmi, Andrew E. Switala, ”Abnormalities of the Gyral Window in Autism: A Macroscopic Correlate to a Putative Minicolumnopathy ,” Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation, pp. 1:85-101, 2007.

6. Seniha E. Yuksel, Ayman El-Baz, Aly A. Farag, Mohamed El-Ghar, Tarek Eldiasty and Mohamed A. Ghoneim, “A Kidney Segmentation Framework for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Journal of Vibration and Control, 13(9–10): 1505–1516, 2007.

7. A.A. Farag, A. El-Baz, and Georgy Gimel’farb, "Precise Image Segmentation of Multimodal Images," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 952-968, April 2006.

8. M. Sabry. Hassouna, A.A. Farag, S. Hushek, and T. Moriarty, "Cerebrovascular Segmentation from TOF Using Stochastic Models," Medical Image Analysis, Vol 10, pp. 2-18, February 2006.

9. A. El-Baz, Aly A. Farag and Georgy Gimel’farb, “Iterative Approximation of Empirical Grey Level Distributions for Precise Segmentation of Multi-modal Images,” European Journal of Applied Signal Processing (EURASIP), Vol. 13, pp. 1969-1983, 2005.

10. A. Eid and Aly A. Farag, “On the Performance Evaluation of 3-D Reconstruction Techniques from a Sequence of Images,” European Journal of Applied Signal Processing (EURASIP), Vol. 13, pp. 1948-1955, 2005.

11. M. T. Ahmed El-Melegy and A. A. Farag, “Nonmetric Calibration of Camera Lens Distortion: Differential Methods and Robust Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1215-1230, August 2005.

12. Aly A. Farag, Refaat M. Mohamed and A. El-Baz, “A Unified Framework for MAP Estimation in Remote Sensing Image Segmentation,” IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 1617-1634, July 2005.

13. Refaat M. Mohamed, A. El-Baz, and Aly A. Farag, “Probability Density Estimation Using Advanced Support Vector Machines and the Expectation Maximization Algorithm”, International Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 185-188, March, 2005.

14. A. El-Baz, Refaat M. Mohamed, and Aly A. Farag, “Advanced Support Vector Machines for Image Modeling Using Gibbs-Markov Random Field”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence, vol. 1, pp. 306-309, March, 2005.

15. Aly A. Farag, A. El-Baz, and Refaat M. Mohamed, “Density estimation using generalized linear model and a linear combination of Gaussians, ” International Journal of Signal Processing, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 76-79, March, 2005.

16. G. Gimel’farb and A. A. Farag, “Texture Analysis by Accurate Identification of Simple Markov Models,” Ukrainian Journal of Cybernetics and Systems Analysis, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 37-49 January 2005.

17. Refaat M. Mohamed, A. El-Baz and Aly A. Farag, “Image Modeling using Gibbs-Markov Random Field and Support Vector Machines Algorithm,” International Journal of Computational Intelligence, IJCI, December 2004.

18. A. A. Farag, H. Hassan, R. Falk and S. Hushek, “3D Volume Segmentation of MRA Data Sets Using Level Sets,” Academic Radiology, Vol. 11, pp. 419-435, April 2004.

19. Matthew P. Eklund, Aly A. Farag, and Moumen El-Melegy “Robust Correspondence Methods For Stereo Vision,” International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1059-1079, 2003.

20. Aly A. Farag and Ahmed Eid, “Video reconstructions in dentistry,” Orthod Craniofacial Res 6 (Suppl. 1), pp. 108–116, 2003.

21. G. H. Mostafa, A. A. Farag, and E. A. Essock, “Multimodality image registration and using neural network,” Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, No.3, 235-240, 2003.

22. S. M. Yamany and A. A. Farag, “Surface Signatures: An Orientation Independent Free-Form Surface Representation Scheme for the Purpose of Objects Registration and Matching” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – Vol. 24, No 8, pp. 1105-1120, August 2002.

23. M. T. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ``A neural network approach for solving the problem of camera calibration,'' Imaging, Vision and Computing – Vol. 20, No. 9-10, pp. 619-630, August 2002.

24. M. N. Ahmed, S. Yamany, N. Mohamed, A. A. Farag, and T. Moriarty “A Modified Fuzzy C-Means Algorithms for Bias Field Estimation and Segmentation of MR Date”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 193-199, March 2002.

25. S. M. Yamany, A. A. Farag, D. Tasman and A. G. Farman, “Robust 3-D Modeling of the Human Jaw Using Sequence of Intra-Oral Images,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 19 (5), pp. 538-547, May 2000.

26. M. G. Mostafa, E. Hemayed, and A. A. Farag, “Target recognition via 3D Object Reconstruction From Image Sequence and Contour Matching,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 20 (11-13), pp. 1381-1387, November 1999.

27. S. M. Yamany, A. A. Farag, and S. Hsu, “Fuzzy Hyperspectral Classifier for Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) Systems,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 20 (11-13), pp. 1431-1438, November 1999.

28. W. D. Ehringer, S.M. Yamany, K. Steier, A. A. Farag, F. J. Roisen, A. Dozier and F. N. Miller, “Quantitative Image Analysis Of F-Actin in Endothelial Cells,” Microcirculation, Vol. 6, pp. 291-303, 1999.

29. S. M. Yamany, M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, “A new genetic-based technique for matching 3D curves and surfaces,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 32 (10), pp. 1817-1820, October 1999.

30. M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, “Two-stage Neural Network for Volume Segmentation of Medical Images,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 18, No 11-13, pp. 1143-1151, November 1997.

31. S. M. Yamany, K. Khiani, A. A. Farag, “Application of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms in the Classification of Endothelial Cells,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 18, no 11-13, pp. 1205-1210, November 1997.

32. Y. M. Kadah, A. A. Farag, J. M. Zurada, A. Badawi and A. Youssef, “Efficient Algorithms for Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Diffused Liver Diseases from Ultrasound Images,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 466-478, August 1996.

33. A. A. Farag and E. J. Delp, “Edge Linking by Sequential Search,” Pattern Recognition. Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 611-633, 1995.

34. A. A. Farag, W. A. Tacker, K. S. Foster, J. D. Bourland, and L. A. Geddes, ``Detection of Pulse and Respiration Signals from the Wrist Using Dry Electrodes,'' Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, pp. 311-314, 1994.

35. A. A. Farag and E. J. Delp, ``Image Segmentation Based on Composite Random Field Models,'' Journal of Optical Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 2594-2607, December 1992.

36. A. A. Farag, ``Edge-based Image Segmentation, Remote Sensing Reviews, Vol. 6(1), pp. 95-120, 1992.

37. A. G. Farman, A. A. Farag, and Yuen-Pin Yeap, ``Communication in Dental Radiology,'' Dento Maxillo Facial Radiology, Vol. 21(3), pp. 213-215, November 1992.

(b) Journal Articles in Submissions/reviews

38. M. Sabry Hassouna and A. A. Farag, TPAMI-0845-1206 - Variational Curve Skeletons Using Gradient Vector Flow,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – submitted 12-06.

(c) Edited Books

1. Jasjit S. Suri and Aly A. Farag, Ed., Deformable Models I: Biomedical and Clinical Applications (Topics in Biomedical Engineering. International Book Series), Springer, New York, July 2007 (Approx. 575 pp.). ISBN: 978-0-387-31201-9.

2. Jasjit S. Suri and Aly A. Farag, Deformable Models II: Theory & Biomaterial Applications (Topics in Biomedical Engineering. International Book Series) Springer, New York, July 2007 (Approx. 600 pp.). ISBN: 978-0-387-31204-0.

(d) Tutorials at International Meetings

1. Aly A. Farag “A Tutorial on 2-D and 3-D Level Set for Medical Imagery ” with J. Suri, K. Mikula, C. Lamberti, 28th IEEE-EMBS Meeting, August 30 – September 3, 2006, New York, NY.

(e) Published Chapters of books

1. M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, “Accurate Tracking of Monotically Advanced Fronts,” J. Suri and A. Farag, Editors, Deformable Models I: Biomedical and Clinical Applications, Chapter 8, pp. 235-258, Springer, New York,

2. Ayman El-Baz, Aly A. Farag, Seniha E. Yuksel, Mohamed E. Aboel Ghar, Tarek A. Eldiasty, and Mohamed A. Ghoneim, “Application of Deformable Models for the Detection of Acute Renal Rejection,” J. Suri and A. Farag, Editors, Deformable Models I: Biomedical and Clinical Applications, Chapter 10, pp. 293-333, Springer, New York, July 2007.

3. M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Robert Falk “PDE-Based Three Dimensional Path Planning for Virtual Endoscopy” J. Suri and A. Farag, Editors, Deformable Models I: Biomedical and Clinical Applications, Chapter 13, pp. 445-475, Springer, New York, July 2007.

5. Rachid Fahmi, Ayman El-Baz, Hossam Abd El-Munim, Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, and Aly A. Farag, “Robust Neuroimaging-Based Classification Techniques for Autistic vs. Typically Developing Brain,” J. Suri and A. Farag, Editors, Deformable Models II: Theory & Biomaterial Applications, Chapter 16, pp. 535-566, Springer, New York, July 2007.

6. A. E. Abdel-Hakim and A. A. Farag. Colored local invariant features for distinct object description in vision-based intelligent systems. In X. F. Zha, editor, Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Intelligent Information Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications, chapter 10, pages 178–205. Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA, October 2006.

7. A. A. Farag, Hongjian Shi, Fahmi Rachid, and Michael J. Voor, “Basic Experiments on Finite Element Analysis of Soft Tissues,” Y. Payan, Ed. A book chapter in Biomechanics Applied to Computer Assisted Surgery, ed. Research Signpost Publisher, 2006.

8. A. A. Farag, H. Shi, R. Fahmi and M. Voor, “Basic Experiments and Finite Element Analysis of Soft Tissues,” Biomechanics Applied to Computer Assisted Surgery, (Yohan Payan, Ed.), Research Signpost, Kerala, India, Chapter 12, pp. 193-208, ISBN 81-308-0031-4, 2005.

9. A. A. Farag, S. M. Yamany, J. Nett, T. Moriarty, A. El-Baz, S. Hushek, and R. Falk, “Medical Image Registration: Theory, Algorithm, and Case Studies in Surgical Simulation, Chest Cancer, and Multiple Sclerosis,” In Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis, (J. S. Suri, D. L. Wilson, and S. Laxminarayan, Eds.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, London, vol. III: Registration Models, pp. 1-42, 2005.

10. A. A. Farag, M. N. Ahmed, A. El-Baz, and H. Hassan, “Advanced Segmentation Techniques,” Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis, (J. S. Suri, D. L. Wilson, and S. Laxminarayan, Eds.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, London, Vol I: Segmentation Models, pp. 479-534, 2005. ISBN: 0306485508.

11. E. E. Hemayed, M.T. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, “CardEye Active Vision System,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Bernt Schiele, Ed., Springer, Berlin, pp. 155-173, 2001.

12. M. N. Ahmed, S. M. Yamany, and A. A. Farag, “Function Approximation using Neural Networks.” Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 8, pp37-45, John G. Webster Ed., John WILEY & Sons Inc., NY, 1999.

(f) Books and Monographs in Preparation

1. A. A. Farag, A Course on Digital Signal Processing; 300 pages (estimate) Manuscript in Progress. Official Contract with Springer -- due 2008.

3. A. A. Farag, Three-Dimensional Model Building in Computer Vision; 400 pages (estimate). Manuscript in Progress.

4. A. A. Farag, Surface and Volume Registration in Engineering and Medicine; 350 pages (estimate). Manuscript in Progress.

(g) Patents

1. Aly A. Farag, Sameh Yamany and David Tasman, “System and Method for 3-D Digital Reconstruction of An Oral Cavity from Sequence of 2-D Images,” US Patent Application Patent Application No. 09/842,587.

2. Aly A. Farag and Mohamed Sabry, “VIRTUAL FLYOVER OF COMPLEX TUBULAR ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES,” (Provisional Patent – 9/7/06; US Patent Application in file 60/842,850; 9/6/07).

3. Aly A. Farag and Mohamed Sabry, METHOD AND SOFTWARE FOR SHAPE REPRESENTATION WITH CURVE SKELTONS,” (Provisional Patent – 6/30/06; US Patent Application in file 11/823,738; 10/5/07 ).

4. Aly A. Farag and Sergey Chekmenev, “NON CONTACT AND PASSIVE MEASURENENTS OF ARTERIAL PULSE THROUGH THERMAL IR IMAGING, AND ARTERIAL IR IMAGING,” (Provisional Patent – 6/30/06).

5. Aly A. Farag and Ayman El-Baz, “AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND MONITORING OF NODULES AND SHAPED TARGETS IN IMAGE DATA” (Provisional Patent – 6/30/06).

(h) Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
(full manuscript peer reviews; CVPR, ICCV, ICPR, IPMI, MICCAI are based on double-blind reviews – acceptance rate is less than 30%)

1. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, “On the Extraction of Curve Skeletons using Gradient Vector Flow,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'07), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-20, 2007.

2.Asem Ali, Aly Farag, Ayman El-Baz, “Graph Cuts Framework for Kidney Segmentation with Prior Shape Constraints,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'07), Sydney, Australia, October 29 – November 2, 2007.

3.Abdelrehim Ahmed, Aly Farag and Thomas Starr, “A New Statistical Model Combining Shape and Spherical Harmonics Illumination for Face Reconstruction,” 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC-07), Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California, November 27-29, 2007, pp. 531-541.

4.A. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, "Shape from Shading under Various Imaging Conditions," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07), Minneapolis, MN, June 18-23, 2007.

5.H. Abd El Munim and A. A. Farag, "Shape Representation and Registration using Vector Distance Functions," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07), Minneapolis, MN, June 18-23, 2007.

7.A. El-Baz, R. Fahmi, S. Esen Yuksel, A. A. Farag, W. Miller, M. Abou El-Ghar, T. Eldiasty, “A New CAD System for the Evaluation of Kidney Diseases Using DCE-MRI.,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'06), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, pp. 446-453.

8.M. Sabry Hassouna, A.A. Farag, and Robert Falk, "Virtual Fly-Over: A New Visualization Technique For Virtual Colonoscopy," Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’06), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, vol. I, pp. 381-388.

9.A. El-Baz, A. Ali, A. A. Farag, G. L. Gimel'farb, “A Novel Approach for Image Alignment Using a Markov-Gibbs Appearance Model,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'06), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, pp. 734-741.

10. A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, G. L. Gimel'farb, M. Abou El-Ghar, T. Eldiasty, “A New Adaptive Probabilistic Model of Blood Vessels for Segmenting MRA Images,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'06), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, pp. 799-806.

11.A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, and G. Gimel’farb, and A. E. Abdel-Hakim, “Robust Image Registration Based on Markov-Gibbs Appearance Model,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’06), Hong Kong, August 20–24, 2006, pp. 1204 - 1207.

12.A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, G. L. Gimel'farb, R. Falk, M. Abou El-Ghar, T. Eldiasty, “A Framework for Automatic Segmentation of Lung Nodules from Low Dose Chest CT Scans,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’06), Hong Kong, August 20–24, 2006, pp. 611-614.

13.A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, R. Fahmi, S. Esen Yuksel, M. Abou El-Ghar, T. Eldiasty, “Image Analysis of Renal DCE MRI for the Detection of Acute Renal Rejection,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’06), Hong Kong, August 20–24, 2006, pp. 822-825.

14.A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, G. L. Gimel'farb, M. Abou El-Ghar, T. Eldiasty, ” Probabilistic Modeling of Blood Vessels for Segmenting MRA Images,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’06), Hong Kong, August 20–24, 2006, pp. 917-920.

15.M. Sabry Hassouna and A. A. Farag, "Accurate Tracking of Monotonically Advancing Fronts," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’06), New York, NY, USA June 17-22, 2006, vol I, pp. 355 - 362.

16.A. E. Abdel-Hakim and A. A. Farag, “CSIFT: A SIFT Descriptor with Color Invariant Characteristics,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’06), New York, NY, 17-22 June 2006, pp. 1978-1983.

17.A. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, "A New Formulation for Shape from Shading for Non-Lambertian Surfaces," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06), New York, NY, USA June 17-22, 2006.

18.H. E. Abd El Munim and A. A. Farag, "A Shape-based Segmentation Approach: An Improved Technique using Level Sets," Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, October 15-21, 2005, pp. 930-935.

19. Moumen T. El-Melegy, Nagi H. Al-Ashwal, and Aly A. Farag, “Variational-Based Method to Extract Parametric Shapes from Images,” Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 05), Beijing, China, October 15-21, 2005, pp. 1786-1791.

20. A. A. Farag, A. El-Baz, and G. Gimel’farb, “Quantitative Nodule Detection in Low Dose Chest CT Scans: New Template Modeling and Evaluation for CAD System Design,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Palm Springs, California, USA, October 26-29, 2005, pp. 720-728.

21. A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, G. Gimel’farb, and S. G. Hushek, “Cerebrovascular Segmentation by Accurate Probabilistic Modeling of TOF-MRA Images,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Palm Springs, California, USA, October 26-29, 2005, pp. 34-42.

22. A. El-Baz, S.E. Yuksel, H. Shi, A. A. Farag, M.A. El-Ghar, T. Eldiasty, and M. A. Ghoneim, “2D and 3D Shape Based Segmentation Using Deformable Models,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Palm Springs, California, USA, October 26-29, 2005, pp. 821-829.

23. H. Shi, R. Fahmi, and A. A. Farag, “Validation Framework of the F.E. Modeling of Liver Tissue,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI-05), October 26-29, 2005, pp. 531-538.

24. M. Sabry Hassouna, A. A. Farag, and Robert Falk, “Differential Fly-Throughs (DFT): A General Framework for Computing Flight Paths,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI-05), Palm Springs, California, October 26-29, 2005, pp. 654-661.

25. A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, and G. Gimel’farb, “Stochastic Deformable Model,” Proc. of British Machine Vision (BMVC), Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, September 5-8, 2005, pp. 230-239.

26. M. Sabry Hassouna and A.A. Farag, “PDE-Based Three Dimensional Path Planning for Virtual Endoscopy,” Proc. of Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 05), Glenwood springs, Colorado, USA, July 11-15, 2005, pp. 529-540.

27. M. Sabry Hassouna and A.A. Farag, "Robust Centerline Extraction Framework Using Level Sets," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 05), San Diego, CA, USA June 20-26, 2005, pp. 458-465.

28. R. M. Mohamed, A. El-Baz, and A. A. Farag, “Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Using SVM with Automatic Selection for the Kernel Parameters,” Proc. of the eighth International Conference on Information Fusion (I 05), Philadelphia, PA, July 25-29, 2005, pp. 813-820.

29. A. El-Baz, R. M. Mohamed, and A. A. Farag, “Shape Constraints for Accurate Image Segmentation with Applications in Remote Sensing Data,” Proc. of the eighth International Conference on Information Fusion (IF 05), Philadelphia, PA, USA , July 25-29, 2005, pp. 645-652.

30. Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim and A. A. Farag, “Robust Virtual Forces-Based Camera Positioning Using a Fusion of Image Contents and Intrinsic Parameters,” Proc. of International Conference on Information Fusion (IF 05), Philadelphia, PA, July 25-29, 2005, pp. 540-547.

31. Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim and A. A. Farag, “Color Segmentation Using an Eigen Color Representation,” Proc. of International Conference on Information Fusion (IF 05), Philadelphia, PA, July 25-29, 2005, pp. 230-237.

32. Aly A. Farag and H. Hassan, .Adaptive Segmentation of Multi-modal 3D Data Using Robust Level Set Techniques,. Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'04), Saint Malo, France, September 26-29, 2004, pp. 143-150.

33. A. A. Farag, A. El-Baz, G.Gimelfarb, R Falk, and S.G. Hushek, “Automatic detection and recognition of lung abnormalities in helical CT images using deformable templates,” Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'04), Saint Malo, France, September 26-29, 2004, pp. 856-864).

34. Aly A. Farag, Ayman El-Baz and Georgy Gimel’farb, “Detection and Recognition of Lung Abnormalities Using Deformable Template,” International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 04), Cambridge, UK, August 2004.

35. Georgy Gimel’farb, Aly A. Farag and Ayman El-Baz, “Expectation-Maximization for a Linear Combination of Gaussians,” International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 04), Cambridge, UK, August 2004.

36. Ahmed Eid and Aly A. Farag, “On the Fusion of 3-D Reconstruction Techniques,” 7th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 04), Stockholm, Sweden, July 2004.

37. Refaat Mohamed and Aly A. Farag, “Mean Field Theory for Density Estimation Using Support Vector Machines,” 7th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 04), Stockholm, Sweden, July 2004.

38. Moumen T. El-Melegy and Aly A. Farag, "Nonmetric Lens Distortion Calibration: Closed-form Solutions, Robust Estimation and Model Selection," International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV 03), Nice, France, October 2003.

39. Moumen T. El-Melegy and Aly A. Farag, “Statistically Robust Approach to Lens Distortion Calibration with Model Selection,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 03), Madison, WI, June 2003.

40. Aly A. Farag and Refaat M. Mohamed, “Classification of Multispectral Data Using Support Vector Machines Approach for Density Estimation,” International Conference on Intelligent Engineering System, Assiut, Egypt, Mar. 6-8, 2003.

41. Ayman El-Baz and Aly A. Farag, “Parameter Estimation in Gibbs-Markov Image Models,” 6th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 03), Queensland, Australia, pp. 934-942, Jul. 8-11, 2003.

42. Refaat M. Mohamed and Aly A. Farag, “A New Unsupervised Approach For The Classification Of Multispectral Data,” 6th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 03), Queensland, Australia, pp. 951-958, Jul. 8-11, 2003.

43. M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, Stephen Hushek, and Thomas Moriarty, “Statistical-Based Approach for Extracting 3D Blood Vessels from TOF-MRA Data,” in Proc. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'03), Montréal, Canada, pp. 680-687, Nov. 15-18, 2003.

44. Refaat M. Mohamed and Aly A. Farag, "Parameter Estimation for Bayesian Classification of Multispectral Data," in Proc the Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Sep. 4-5, 2003.

45. Aly A. Farag, Refaat M. Mohamed and Hani Mahdi, “Experiments in Image Classification and Data Fusion,” Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Information Fusion, Annapolis, MD, Vol. 1, pp. 299-308, July 2002.

46. Ahmed Eid, Sherif Rashad and Aly A. Farag, "A General Purpose Platform for 3D Reconstruction from Sequence of Images", Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Information Fusion, Annapolis, MD, Vol. 1, pp. 425-413, July 2002.

47. M. T. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ‘‘Differential Methods for Non-metric Calibration of Camera Lens Distortion,'' IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’2001), Hawaii, Vol. 2, pp. 477-482, December 2001.

48. M. T. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ''Locked, Unlocked and Semi-locked Network Weights for Four Different Camera Calibration Problems,’’ INNS-IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2001), Washington D.C., July 2001.

49. M. T. Ahmed, A. Eid and A. A. Farag ''Human Jaw Reconstruction: New Approach and Improvements,’’ International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'01), The Netherlands, Oct. 2001.

50. M. G-H Mostafa, T. Perkins and A. Farag, "A Two-Step Fuzzy-Bayesian Classification for High Dimensional Data", Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2000), Barcelona, Spain, volume 3, pages 421-424, September 2000.

51. S. Yamany and A. Farag, "3D Objects Coding and Recognition using Surface Signatures", Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2000), Barcelona, Spain, volume 4, pages 571-574, September 2000.

52. M. T. Ahmed and Aly Farag, "Zoom-lens Camera Calibration from Noisy Data with Outliers," Proc. 11th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'2000), Bristol, UK, volume 2, pages 636-645, September 2000.

53. M. G-H. Mostafa, A. A. Farag and E. A. Essock, “Multimodality Image registration and Fusion using Neural Network,” Fusion2000, Paris, France, Vol. 2, pages WeD3-3 -- WeD3-9, July 2000.

54. M. T. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, “A Neural Optimization Framework for Zoom Lens Camera Calibration,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’2000), Hilton Head, South Carolina, pp. 403-409, June 2000.

55. Elsayed Hemayed, Moumen Ahmed and Aly Farag, "CardEye: A 3D Trinocular Active Vision System,” Proc. 3rd IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC'2000), Dearborn, Michigan, pages: 398 -403, October 2000.

56. M. T. Ahmed, E. E. Hemayed and A. A. Farag, “Neurocalibration: a neural network that can tell camera calibration parameters,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’99), Kerkyra, Greece, pp. 463-468, September 1999.

57. S. M. Yamany and A. A. Farag, “Free-Form Surface Registration using Surface Signatures,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’99), Kerkyra, Greece, pp. 1098-1104, September 1999.

58. A. Eldeib, S. M. Yamany and A. A. Farag, “Multi-modal Medical Volumes Fusion by Surface Matching,” International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’99), Cambridge, England, pp. 672-679, September 1999.

59. M. N. Ahmed, S. M. Yamany, N. A. Mohamed, and A. A. Farag, “A Modified Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for MRI Bias-Field Estimation and Adaptive Segmentation,” International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’99), Cambridge, England, pp. 72-81, September 1999.

60. S. M. Yamany, A. A. Farag, A. Farman and D. Tasman, “Robust 3-D Reconstruction of the Human Jaw from Video Images,” International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’99), Cambridge, England, pp. 778-787, September 1999.

61. M. G. Mostafa, Sameh M. Yamany and Aly A. Farag, “Integrating Shape From Shading and Range Data,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’99), Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 15-20, June 1999.

62. Peter Lehel, Elsayed E. Hemayed, Aly A. Farag, ``Sensor Planning for a Trinocular Active Vision System,'' IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’99), Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 306-312, June 1999.

63. M. N. Ahmed, S. M. Yamany, A. A. Farag and Thomas Moriarty, “Bias Field Estimation and Adaptive Segmentation of MRI Data Using a Modified Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’99), Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 250-255, June 1999.

64. S. M. Yamany, A. M. El-Bialy and A. A. Farag, “Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Surface Signatures,” IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’99), Washington DC, July 1999, Vol. 5, pp. 3188-3193.

65. E. E. Hemayed and A. A. Farag, ``Integrating Edge-based Stereo and Structured Light for Robust Surface Reconstruction,'' IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Vehicles (IV- 98), Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 611-616, Oct. 1998.

66. M. N. Ahmed, S. M. Yamany, E. E. Hemayed, and A. A. Farag, ``3D Reconstruction of the Human Jaw from a Sequence of Images,'' IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’97), Puerto Rico, pp. 646-653, June 1997.

67. M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, “Two-stage Neural Network for Medical Volume Segmentation,” IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN97), pp. 60-66, Houston, TX, June 1997.

(i) Workshops Papers (based on full text submissions for peer reviews)

1. Sergey Chekmenev, Aly Farag and Edward Essock, “Thermal Imaging of the Superficial Temporal Artery: An Arterial Pulse Recovery Mode,” Proc. of 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS'07), Minneaplois, MN, USA, June 22, 2007, pp. 1-8 . Won Best Paper Award from IEEE.

2. A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, G. L. Gimel'farb, and A. E. Abdel-Hakim, “Experiments on Robust Image Registration Using a Markov-Gibbs Appearance Model,” Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR’06) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR’06), Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, 2006, pp. 65-73.

4. Hassouna, A.A. Farag, and Robert Falk, "An Improved 2D Colonic Polyp Segmentation Framework Based on Gradient Vector Flow Deformable Model," Proc. of International Conference on Medical Imaging and Virtual Reality (MIAR'06), August 20-24, 2006, Shanghai, China, pp. 373-380

5. A. A. Farag, A. El-baz, H. E. Abd El Munim, and S. E. Yuksel, ”Level Set Segmentation using Statistical Shape Priors,” Proc. of IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA’06), New York, NY, USA, June 17-18, 2006, pp. 78-85.

6. Ayman El-Baz, Aly A. Farag, Asem Ali, Georgy L. Gimel'farb, Manuel Casanova, “A Framework for Unsupervised Segmentation of Multi-modal Medical Images,” Proc. of the Second International Workshop of Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis(CVAMIA’06), Graz, Austria, May 2006, pp. 120-131.

7. Refaat M. Mohamed and Aly A. Farag, "Two Sequential Stages Classifier for Multispectral Data," in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) workshop on Intelligent Learning, Madison, WS, Jun. 16-22, 2003.

8. Aly A. Farag, Ayman El-Baz and Georgy Gimel’farb, “Precise Image Segmentation by Iterative EM-Based Approximation of Empirical Gray Level Distribution with Linear Combination of Gaussians,” IEEE International Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in Conjunction with The International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 04), Washington, DC, June 2004.

9. Ahmed Eid and Aly A. Farag, “A Unified Framework for Performance Evaluation of 3-D Reconstruction Techniques from Sequence of Images,” IEEE International Workshop on Real Time 3-D Sensors and their Use, in Conjunction with The International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 04), Washington, DC, June 2004.

10. Ahmed Eid and Aly A. Farag, “Design of an Experimental Setup for Performance Evaluation of 3-D Reconstruction Techniques from Sequence of Images,” Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, in Conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 04), Washington, DC, June 2004.

11. A. El-Baz, R. M. Mohamed, A. A. Farag, and G Gimel’farb, “Unsupervised Segmentation of Multi-Modal Images by a Precise Approximation of Individual Modes with Linear Combinations of Discrete Gaussians,” Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Diego, California, June 19-25, 2005, 712-719.

(j) Proceedings Papers (based on 3-4 pages submissions for peer reviews)

1. Shireen Y. Elhabian, Hossam Abd EL Munim, Salwa Elshazly, Aly A. Farag, and Mohamed Aboelghar, “Experiments On Sensitivity Of Template Matching For Lung Nodule Detection In Low dose Ct Scans,” Proceedings, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2007, Cairo, Egypt , December 15-18, 2007, pp. 1024-1028.

2. Asem M. Ali and Aly A. Farag, “Graph Cut Based Segmentation of Multimodal Images,” Proceedings, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2007, Cairo, Egypt, December 15-18, 2007, pp. 1047-1052.

3. Hossam Abd EL Munim, Aly A. Farag, and Manuel F. Casanova, “Frequency-Domain Analysis of the Human Brain for Studies of Autism,” Proceedings, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2007, Cairo, Egypt, December 15-18, 2007, pp. 1198-1203.

4. Hossam Abd EL Munim, Aly A. Farag, Mohamed Abo El-Ghar, and Tarek El-Diasty, “A New Shape-Based Segmentation Approach for the DEC-MRI Kidney Images,” Proceedings, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2007, Cairo, Egypt, December 15-18, 2007, pp. 1204-1208.

5. Dongqing Chen, Aly A. Farag, M. Sabry Hassouna, Robert Falk, Gerald Dryden “Geometric Features Based Framework for Colonic Polyp Detection Using a New Color Coding Scheme,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’07), St. Antonio, Texas, September 16-19, 2007, pp. V-17-V-20 .

6. Abdelrehim Ahmed and Aly A. Farag “Shape from Shading for Hybrid Surfaces,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’07), St. Antonio, Texas, September 16-19, 2007, pp. II-525-II-528.

7. Moumen El-Melegy, Ennumeri Zanaty, Walaa Abd-Elhafiez and Aly A. Farag, “On Cluster Validity Indexes in Fuzzy and Hard Clustering Algorithms for Image Segmentation,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’07), St. Antonio, Texas, September 16-19, 2007, pp. VI-5-VI-8.

8. Hossam E Abd El Munim and Aly A. Farag, “Elastic Registration of the Corpus Callosum,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’07), St. Antonio, Texas, September 16-19, 2007, pp. V-377 – V-380.

9. Rachid Fahmi and Aly A. Farag “A Global-to-Local 2D Shape Registration in Implicit Spaces Using Level Sets,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’07), St. Antonio, Texas, September 16-19, 2007, VI-237-VI-240.

10. Dongqing Chen, Aly A. Farag, M. Sabry Hassouna, Robert Falk “Principle Curvature-Based Colonic Polyp Detection,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’07), Berlin, Germany, June 27-30, 2007, pp. 6-8.

11. Rachid Fahmi, Ayman Elbaz, Hossam Hassan, Aly A. Farag and Manuel Casanova, “Structural MRI-Based Discrimination Between Autistic and Typically Developing Brain,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’07), Berlin, Germany, June 27-30, 2007, pp. 24-26.

12. Hossam Abd El Munin, Aly A. Farag, Salwa Elshazly and Allan G. Farman, “3D Model of the Human Teeth Using Implicit Vectors Databases,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’07), Berlin, Germany, June 27-30, 2007, pp. 404-406.

13. H. E. Abd El Munim and A.A. Farag, “A New Global Registration Approach of Medical Imaging Using Vector Maps,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI’07, April 12-15, 2007 in Metro Washington DC, pp. 584 – 587.

14. H. E. Abd El Munim and A.A. Farag, “A New Variational Approach for 3D Shape Registration,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI’07, April 12-15, 2007 in Metro Washington DC, pp. 1324 – 1327.

15. Asem Ali, A. El-Baz and A.A. Farag, “A Novel Framework for Accurate Lung Segmentation Using Graph Cuts,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI’07, April 12-15, 2007 in Metro Washington DC, pp. 908 – 911.

16. Rachid Fahmi, A. El-Baz, Hossam Abd El Munim, Aly A. Farag, and M. Casanova “Classification Techniques for Autistic vs. Typically Developing Brain Using MRI Data,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI’07, April 12-15, 2007 in Metro Washington DC, pp. 1348 – 1351.

17. H. E. Abd El Munim and A.A. Farag, ”A Variational Approach for Shapes Registration using Vector Maps,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’06), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 8-11, 2006, pp. 337 - 340.

18. A. A. Farag, G. Gimelfarb, A. Elbaz, and A. E. Abdel-Hakim, “Image Alignment Using Learning Prior Appearance Model,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’06), Atlanta, GA, 8-11 October 2006, pp. 341-344.

19. A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, G. Gimel’farb, M. A. El-Ghar, and T. Eldiasty, “Fast Unsupervised Segmentation of 3D Magnetic Resonance Angiography,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’06), Atlanta, GA, 8-11 October 2006, pp. 93-96.

20. R. Mohamed, A. Ahmed, A. Eid and A. A. Farag, “Support Vector Machines for Camera Calibration Problem,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'06), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 8-11, 2006, pp. 1029 – 1032.

21. N. El-Zehiry, M. Casanova, H. Hassan, and A. A. Farag, ”Effect of Mnincolumnar Disturbance on Dyslexic Brains: An MRI Study,” Proceedings of International Symposuim on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI’06, Arlington, Virginia, April 2006, pp. 1336-1339.

22. Ayman El-Baz, Aly A. Farag, Seniha E. Yuksel, Mohamed E.A. Al-Ghar and Tarek Eldiasty, “A novel approach for the detection of acute rejection with dynamic contrast enhanced MRI,” Proceedings of the 13th European Symposium on Urogential Radiology, Cairo, Egypt September 8-11, 2006, pp. 125-126.

23. M. Sabry Hassouna and A.A. Farag, “Robust Skeletonization Using The Fast Marching Method,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’05), Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, pp. 437-440.

24. M. Sabry Hassouna, Alaa Abdel-Hakim, and A. A. Farag, “Robust Robotic Path Planning Using Level Sets,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’05), Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, pp. 473-476.

25. M. Sabry Hassouna and A. A. Farag, “Stochastic Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Time-Of-Flight,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’05), Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, pp. 29-32.

26. Ahmed Eid and A. A. Farag, “A Silhouette-Contour Based 3-D Registration Methodology As a Pre-Evaluation Step Of 3-D Reconstruction Techniques,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’05), Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, pp. 505-508.

27. R. M. Mohamed, A. El-Baz, and A. A. Farag, “Advanced Algorithms For Bayesian Classification In High Dimensional Spaces with Applications in Hyperspectral Image Segmentation,” Proc. of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’05), Genoa, Italy, Sept. 11-14, 2005, pp. 646-649.

28. M. Sabry Hassouna and A.A. Farag, “3D Path Planning for Virtual Endoscopy,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’05), Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 115-120.

29. H. Hassan, A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, A. Farman, D. Tazman, M. Miller, “A Complete Volumetric 3D Model of the Human Jaw,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’05), Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 1244-1249.

30. S.E. Yuksel, A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, M.E.A. El-Ghar, T.A. Eldiasty, and M.A. Ghoneim, “Automatic detection of renal rejection after kidney transplantation,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’05), Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 773-778.

31. A. El-Baz, S.E. Yuksel, S. Elshazly, and A. A. Farag, “Non-rigid registration techniques for automatic follow-up of lung nodules,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’05), Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 1115-1120.

32. N. Y. El-Zehiry, M. Casanova, H. Hassan, and A. A. Farag, “Structural MRI Analysis of the Brains of Patients with Dislexia,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’05), Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 1291-1296.

33. H. Shi and A. A. Farag, “Validating Linear Elastic and Linear Viscoelastic Models of Lamb Liver Tissue Using Cone-Beam CT,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’05), Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 473-478.

34. A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, and G. Gimel'farb, “MGRF Controlled Stochastic Deformable Model,” Proc. of Fourteenth Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), Joensuu, Finland, June 19-22, 2005, pp. 1138-1147.

35. A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, and G. Gimel'farb, “Segmentation of Multi-modal Images by a Precise Approximation of Empirical Distributions with Linear Combinations of Discrete Gaussians,” Proc. of Fourteenth Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), Joensuu, Finland, June 19-22, 2005, pp. 1128-1137.

36. M. Sabry Hassouna, Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, and A. A. Farag, “PDE-Based Robust Robotic Navigation,” Proc. of Second Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), British Columbia, Canada, May 9-11, 2005, pp. 176- 183.

37. A. A. Farag and Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, “Virtual Forces for Camera Planning in Smart Vision Systems,” Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Breckenridge CO, January 2005, pp. 269-274.

38. A.A. Farag, A. El-Baz and G. Gimel’farb, “Detection and recognition of lung nodules in spiral CT images using Deformable templates and bayesian post-classification,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2004, Singapore, October 24-27, 2004, Vol. I, pp. 151-154.

39. A. A. Farag, A. El-Baz, and G. Gimel’farb “Density Estimation Using Modified Expectation Maximization for a linear combination of Gaussians,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP- 2004), Singapore, October 24-27 2004, Vol. I, pp. 194-197.

40. A.A. Farag and Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, “Image Content-Based Active Sensor Planning for a Mobile Trinocular Active Vision System,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’2004), Singapore, October 24-27, 2004, Vol. II, pp. 193-196.

41. S. Mahmoud, M. El-Melegy, S. and A.A. Farag, “A Comparative Study of Statistical and Neural Methods for Remote Sensing Image Classification and Decision Fusion,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2004, Singapore, October 24-27, 2004, Vol. II, pp. 211-214.

42.  Ayman El-Baz and Aly A. Farag, “Image Segmentation Using GMRF Models: Parameters Estimation and Applications,” in Proc IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 03), Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 14-17, 2003.

43.  Hossam Hassan and Aly A. Farag, “MRA Data Segmentation Using Level Sets,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 03), Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 14-17, 2003.

44.  Ayman El-Baz, Aly A. Farag, Robert Falk, and Renato La Rocca, “A unified approach for detection, visualization, and identification of lung abnormalities in chest spiral CT scans,” Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 03), London, June 2003.

45. Hossam Hassan and Aly A. Farag, “Cerebrovascular Segmentation for MRA Data Using Level Sets,” Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 03), London, June 2003.

46.  Ayman El-Baz, Aly A. Farag, Robert Falk, and Renato La Rocca, "Automatic Identification of Lung Abnormalities in Chest Spiral CT Scans," International Conf. on Acoustics, speech, and signal processing (ICASSP 03), pp. 261-264, Apr. 6-10, 2003.

47. Hani Mahdi and Aly A. Farag, “Image Registration in Multispectral Data Sets,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’2002), Rochester, New York, September 22-25, 2002.

48. Mohamed Sabry, Charles B. Sites, Aly A. Farag, Stephen Hushek, and Thomas Moriarty “A Fast Automatic Method for 3D Volume Segmentation of the Human Cerebrovascular,” Proc. of the 13th International Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery,(CARS'02), Paris, France, June, 2002.

49. Ahmed Eid, Sherif Rashad and Aly Farag, “Validation of 3D Reconstruction from Sequence of Images,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications SSPRA 2002, Crete, Greece, June 2002.

50. M. T. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, “Non-metric Calibration of Camera Lens Distortion,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2001), Greece, Vol. II, pp. 157-160, October 2001.

51. M. T. Ahmed, A. Eid, and A. A. Farag, “3-D reconstruction of the Human Jaw Using Space Carving,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2001), Greece, Vol. II, pp. 323-326, October 2001.

52. A. Eldeib, S. Yamany and Aly Farag, "Volume Registration by Surface Point Signature and Mutual Information Maximization with Applications in Intra-Operative MRI Surgeries," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2000), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 200-203, October 2000.

53. E. Hemayed and A. Farag, "Object Modeling Using Space Carving," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2000), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vol. 2, pp. 760-763, October 2000.

54.M. Mostafa; T. Perkins and A. Farag, "Supervised Fuzzy and Bayesian Classification of High Dimensional Data," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2000), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 772-775, October 2000.

55. S. Yamany and A. Farag, "Coding of 3D Objects Using Surface Signatures," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2000), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vol. 3, pp. 628-631-763, October 2000.

56. E. E. Hemayed, M. Brown, A. A. Farag and B. Seales, ``Cooperative Stereo: Combining Edge- and Area-Based Stereo,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 421-428, March 1999.

57. M. G. Mostafa, S. M. Yamany and Aly A. Farag, ``Integrating Stereo and Shape from Shading,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Kobe, Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 130-134, October, 1999.

58.M. T. Ahmed, E. E. Hemayed and A. A. Farag, ``A Neural Approach for Single- and Multi-Image Camera Calibration,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Kobe, Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 925-929, October, 1999.

59. D. L. Guidry and A. A. Farag, ``Using Active Contours and Fourier Descriptors for Motion Tracking with Applications in MRI,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Kobe, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 177-181, October, 1999.

60. Sameh M. Yamany, Aly A. Farag and Ahmed M. El-Bialy. ``Free-Form Object Recognition and Registration Using Surface Signatures,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Kobe, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 475-461, October, 1999.

61. N. A. Mohamed, M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ``Modified fuzzy C-mean in medical image segmentation,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'99), Vol. 6, pp. 3429 - 3432, March 1999.

62.  D. L. Guidry and A. A. Farag, ``Active contours: an overview with applications to motion artifact cancellation in MRI,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'99), Vol. 6, pp. 3425-3428, March 1999.

63.  A. A. Farag, A. G. Farman, D. Tasman, and S. M. Yamany, ``A computer vision system for modeling dental occlusions,'' Proc. of the 13th International Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, (CARS'99), pp. 932-936, Paris 1999.

64.  S. M. Yamany, E. Rickard, A. A. Farag and D. Tasman, ``Orthodontic measurements and treatment planning using computer vision,'' Proc. of the 13th International Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, (CARS'99), pp. 937-941, Paris 1999.

65.  A. Eldeib, A. A. Farag, and T. Moriarty, ``A fast genetic search algorithm for accurate multi-modal volume registration by maximization of mutual information,'' Proc of the 13th International Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS'99), pp. 244-248, Paris 1999.

66. . M. N. Ahmed, S.M. Yamany, N. A. Mohamed, A. A. Farag and T. Moriarty, ``Bias field estimation and adaptive segmentation of MRI data using a modified fuzzy C-means algorithm,'' Proc. of the 13th International Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, (CARS'99), pp. 1004, Paris 1999.

67. M. G. Mostafa, S. M. Yamany and A. A. Farag, ``Efficient 3D data fusion for object reconstruction using neural networks,'' Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3647, p. 80-89, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing IV; Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos: Eds, March 1999.

68. S.M. Yamany, M. N. Ahmed, and A. A. Farag, ``Novel Surface Registration Using the Grid Closest Point (GCP) Transform,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Vol. 3, pp. 809-813, Chicago 1998.

69. N. A. Mohamed, M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ``Modified Fuzzy C-Mean in Medical Image Segmentation,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Engineering Medicine and Biological Sciences (EMBS'98), vol. 20, part 3, pp. 1377-1380, 1998.

70. D. L. Guidry and A. A. Farag, ``Active Contours: An Overview with Applications to Motion Artifact Cancellation in MRI,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering Medicine and Biological Sciences (EMBS'98), vol. 20, part 2, pp. 644-647, 1998.

71. S. M. Yamany, Aly A. Farag, ``A System for Human Jaw Modeling Using Intra-Oral Images,'' Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering Medicine and Biological Sciences (EMBS'98), vol. 20, part 2, pp. 563-566, 1998.

72. S. M. Yamany, Aly A. Farag, Nevin A. Mohamed, ``Orthodontics Measurements using Computer Vision,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering Medicine and Biological Sciences (EMBS'98), vol. 20, part 2, pp. 536-569, 1998.

72. E. E. Hemayed and A. A. Farag, ``A Geometrical-Based Trinocular Vision System for Edges Reconstruction,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'98), Chicago, IL, Vol. 2, pp. 162 - 166 Oct. 1998.

73. A. M. Eldeib, M. N. Ahmed, A. A. Farag and C. B. Sites, ``A Web-based System for Surgical Planning and Simulation,'' Proc of SPIE, vol. 3517, pp. 273-283, Nov 1998.
Aly A. Farag, PhD, February 26, 2008 - 22.

74.  M. G. Mostafa, S. M. Yamany and Aly A. Farag, ``Data fusion for 3D object reconstruction,'' Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3523, p.88-99, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems, Paul S. Schenker; Gerard T. McKee; Eds., Oct 1998.

75.  H. M. Hamdan, E. E. Hemayed and A. A. Farag, ``A Fast 3-D Object Reconstruction Using Trinocular Vision and Structured Light,'' Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3522, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 1998.

76. M. N. Ahmed, S. M. Yamany, and A. A. Farag, ``Fast Algorithm for Registration of Free-Form Curves and Surfaces,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP97), Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 1997.

77.  M. N. Ahmed, S. M. Yamany, and A. A. Farag, ``Recovery of the human jaw from a sequence of images,'' Proc of International Conf. Image Processing (ICIP97), Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 1997.

78. M. N. Ahmed, E. E. Hemayed, E. D. Jansing, and A. A. Farag, ``Surface reconstruction from serial cross-sections,'' Proceedings from the IEEE Aerospace Applications conference, Colorado, Feb. 1996.

79.  M. N. Ahmed and Aly A. Farag, ``3D segmentation and labeling of CT brain images using unsupervised clustering,'' Proceedings of the ANNIE-96, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, Rolla, Missouri, November 1996. Appeared in C. H. Dagli, et al., Eds, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 6, pp. 450-456, ASME Press, New York, 1996.

80. M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ``3D segmentation and labeling of CT brain images using self organizing Kohonen network to quantify TBI recovery,'' Proceedings from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) conference, Amsterdam, Oct. 1996.

81. K. J. Khiani, S. M. Yamany and A. A. Farag, ``Classification of the Effects of F-actin Under Treatment of Drugs in Endothelial Cells,'' Proceedings of the ANNIE-96, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, Rolla, Missouri, November 1996. Appeared in C. H. Dagli, et al., Eds, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 6, pp. 320-326, ASME Press, New York, 1996.

82. K. J. Khiani, S. M. Yamany and A. A. Farag, 2-Parametric and non-parametric techniques for identifying images of F-ACTIN distribution in Endothelial cells with applied agonists, Proceedings from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) conference, Amsterdam, Oct. 1996.

83. S. A. Wilson and A. A. Farag, Image Compression Using Neural Networks, Proceedings of the ANNIE-95, Artificial neural Networks in Engineering, Rolla, Missouri, November 1995. Appeared in C. H. Dagli, et al., Eds, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 5, pp. 503-508, ASME Press, New York, 1995.

84. M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ``Free Form Surface Reconstruction using Neural Networks, ''Proceedings of the ANNIE-94, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, Rolla, Missouri, November 1994. Appeared in C. H. Dagli, et al., Eds, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 4, pp. 51-56, ASME Press, New York, 1994.

85. M. N. Ahmed and A. A. Farag, ``Application of Functional Link Neural Networks in Free Form Surface Reconstruction,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision XII, Boston, MA, October 1994.
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86. Y. M. Kadah, A. A. Farag, A. Youssef, and A. Badawi, ``Statistical and Neural Classifiers for Ultrasound Tissue Characterization,'' Proceedings of the ANNIE-93, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, Rolla, Missouri, November 1993. Appeared in C. H. Dagli, et al., Eds, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 3, pp. 397-402, ASME Press, New York, 1993.

87. Y. M. Kadah, A. A. Farag, A. Youssef, and A. Badawi, ``Automatic Tissue Characterization from Ultrasound Imagery,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 2025: Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision XII, pp. 283-294, November 1993.

88. A. A. Farag and Bin Wang, ``On Wavelet Image Representation and Application in Computer Vision,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 2025: Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision XII, pp. 450-462, November 1993.

89. A. A. Farag, ``On the Fusion of Apriori Information in Sequential Boundary Allocation Algorithms,'' Proceedings of the U.S. Army Data Fusion Workshop, George Mason University, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, June 1993.

90. A. A. Farag, E. J. Delp, B. Wang, and D. M. Rose ``Local Estimation of Gaussian-based Edge Enhancement Filters Using Fourier Analysis,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP-92, Minneapolis, MN, April 1993.

91.  A. A. Farag, Yuen-Pin Yeap, and Frank P. Kuhl, ``Some Recent Advances in Statistical Texture Modeling, Simulation, and Segmentation,'' Proceedings of the American Society for Photometry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), Vol. 3, pp. 96-106, 1993.

92. A. A. Farag, ``MAP Region Segmentation Based on Composite Random Field Models,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP-92, San Francisco, CA, Vol. 3, pp. 49-52, March 1992.

93.  A. A. Farag, Y. Cao, and Y. P. Yeap, ``Integrating A Priori Information in Edge Linking Algorithms,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 1700: Automatic Object Recognition, pp. 380-394, April 1992.

94.  Y. P. Yeap, E. D. Jansing, and A. A. Farag ``An Empirical Investigation of Iterative Maximum Entropy Spectral Estimation of One-dimensional Random Process,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 1700: Automatic Object Recognition, pp. 395-405, April 1992.

95.  A. G. Farman and A. A. Farag, ``Direct Digital Radiography with Image Enhancements for Maxillofacial Diagnosis,'' Proceedings of the VIth Biennial Congress of the International Association of Oral Pathologists, Hamburg, Germany, July 1992.

96. A. A. Farag and Y. P. Yeap, ``On the Effects of the Gibbs-Markov Model Parameters on MAP Region Segmentation Using Dynamic Programming,'' 1992 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Chicago, IL, pp. 1670-1675, October 1992.

97. A. A. Farag, E. J. Delp, Y. Cao, and D. M. Rose ``On Empirical Estimation of the Parameters of Edge Enhancement Filters,'' 1992 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Chicago, IL, pp. 346-350, October 1992.

98.  P. K. Sahoo, A. A. Farag, and Y. P. Yeap, ``Threshold Selection based on Histogram Modeling,'' 1992 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Chicago, IL, pp. 351-356,October 1992.

99. A. A. Farag, Y. P. Yeap, and E. J. Delp, ``Effects of Clique Potentials on Maximum A Posteriori Region Segmentation,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 1825: Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision XI, pp. 325-337, November 1992.

100. E. D. Jansing, Y. P. Yeap, and A. A. Farag, ``Convergence Properties of Iterative Maximum Entropy Spectral Estimation,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 1824: Applications of Signal and Image Processing in Explosives Detection Systems, pp. 183-193, November 1992.

101. A. A. Farag and D. M. Rose, ``Experiments in Bayesian and Neural Pattern Recognition with Applications to Textured Image Classification,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 1827: Model-Based Vision, pp. 88-95, November 1992.

102. A. A. Farag and E. J. Delp, ``A Path Metric for Sequential Search and its Applications in Edge Linking,'' 1991 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Charlottesville, Va., pp. 563-569, October 1991.

103. A. A. Farag and E. J. Delp, ``A Stochastic Modeling Approach to Region Segmentation,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, SPIE, Vol. 1609: Model-Based Vision and Tools: pp. 87-110, November 1991.

104. A. A. Farag and E. J. Delp, ``Edge Linking by Sequential Search,'' Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering; SPIE, Vol. 1609: Model-Based Vision and Tools, pp. 198-216, November 1991.

(k) Selected Presentations and Abstracts

1. A. A. Farag, “On shape representation,” Invited talk, Microsoft Research-Cairo, Egypt January 11, 2007.

2. A. A. Farag, “Recent Advances in statistical and variational image modeling,” Invited talk, Cairo University 3rd Biomedical Engineering Conference, Cairo, Egypt December 21-24, 2006.

3. A.A. Farag, Robert Falk and Renato LaRoca, “A three-year progress on image analysis for lung nodule detection from low dose CT scans” The Brown Cancer Meeting, November 29, 2006.

4. A. A. Farag, “Medical Imaging for Better Healthcare,”Invited Talk, Mansoura University, Egypt, September 13, 2006.

5. A. A. Farag, “Latest Progress in PDE Approcahes for Medical Image Analysis,” Keynote talk, the Graphics, Vision and Image Processing Conference (GVIP05), Cairo, Egypt, December 21, 2005.

6. A.H. Eid, A.A. Farag, D, Tasman, A. Farman, “3D Modeling of the Human Jaw,” Research!Louisville, October 2001.

7. A. El-Baz, A.A. Farag, and R. Falk, “Image Analysis for Automatic Screening of Lung Cancer,” Research!Louisville, October 2001.

8. Jeremy Nett, A.A. Farag, R. Falk, and S. Ildstad “Medical Image Processing and Visualization Applied to the Study of Multiple Sclerosis,” Research!Louisville, October 2001.

9. A.A. Farag, T. Moriarty, C.B. Sites, S. Hushek, “Virtual Endoscopy: Modeling the Navigation in 3D Brain Volumes,” Research!Louisville, October 2001.

10. Larson, P., Mohamed, A., Eldeib, A., Mohamed, A., Yamany, S., Sites, C., Vitaz, T., Farag, A., Shields, C., and Moriarty, T, “Image-guided Navigation for Neuroendoscope,” the 49th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons – CNS’99, Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, Boston, MA, 1999.

11. Larson, P., Eldeib, A., Mohamed, A., Sites, C., Farag, A., Shields, C., and Moriarty, T, “Image Processing Paradigms for Image-Guided Neurosurgical Navigation,” the 49th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons – CNS’99, Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, Boston, MA, USA, 1999.

12. Mohamed, A., Larson, P., Eldeib, A., Sites, C., Farag, A., and Moriarty, T, “Rapid Registration for Image Guided Neurosurgery,” the 5th International Workshop – Computer Assisted Surgery – CAS’99 and Rapid Prototyping in Medicine, Oct. 14 – 16, Erlangen, Germany 1999.

13. Sites, C., Larson, P., Mohamed, A., Eldeib, A., Farag, A., and Moriarty, T, “3-D Modeling of the cerebral Vasculature,” the 5th International Workshop – Computer Assisted Surgery – CAS’99 and Rapid Prototyping in Medicine, Oct. 14 – 16, Erlangen, Germany 1999.

(l) Published Book Reviews

1. A. A. Farag, Review of R. Beale and T. Jackson, Neural Computing, Adam Hilger, Bristol, England, 240 pp., 1990. Appeared in Journal of Computer Science, 1994.

2. A. A. Farag, Review of G. Orban and H. Nagel, Artificial and Biological Vision Systems, Springer­Verlag, 389 pp., 1992. Appeared in Journal of Computer Science, 1994.

(m) Technical Reports

Over 20 Serial Technical Reports can be obtained upon request from the CVIP Laboratory, in addition to three Ph.D. dissertations and 17 Master of Science and Master of Engineering theses.