Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering, The University of Iowa

• Research interests include medical imaging, image segmentation, and automated knowledge-based image analysis in a variety of applications and in various image modalities.
  • Cardiovascular image analysis
• Coronary border detection in X-ray angiography
• Coronary wall and plaque border detection in intravascular ultrasound images
• Data fusion of angiography and intravascular ultrasound
  • Introduction with interactive JAVA demos
  • Angiography-IVUS Fusionl
  • Movies
• Brachial ultrasound analysis
  • Doppler velocity measurement
• Segmentation of intracardiac ultrasound images
• Segmentation of cardiac MR and echo images - recently funded
  • Segmentation of left & right ventricles using Hybrid Active Appearance Models
  • Active Appearance Motion Models - 2D+time - MR and echocardiography
• Vascular MR image analysis
  • MR plaque image analysis
• Pulmonary CT image analysis
• Extraction of pulmonary airway trees from multi-detector CT images
• Augmented reality virtual liver surgery planning system
• Cell image analysis
  • Cell shape analysis
  • Cell tracking
• MR brain segmentation and interpretation
• Automated interpretation of MR brain images
• Miscellaneous applications
• Area and volume preserving smoothing
• 3D edge detection in anisotropic data volumes
• Automated learning of border detection criteria from examples
• Multi-D Image Analysis Library

Milan Sonka
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242, USA

phone: (319)-335-6052, fax: (319)-335-6028, e-mail:milan-sonka[AT]uiowa.edu, http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu/~sonka/