Education

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1992
M.S.E., Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
M.S., Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995
Ph.D,. Medical Physics, University of Chicago, 2001

Research Interests

Development and analysis of tomographic reconstruction algorithms, medical image processing, inverse scattering and other inverse problems in medical imaging

Current Projects

- Algorithm Development for Diffraction Tomography

- Advanced Imaging Algorithms in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning

- Development of Reconstruction Algorithms for Novel Imaging Modalities

Professional Activities

- Member, OSA, IEEE, SIAM

- Reviewer for ONR, DOE, 11 journals and conferences

Honors and Awards

- IEEE, Kansas City Section, Scholarship Award
- Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu Honor Societies
- University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Paul C. Hodges Research Award, Department of Radiology, University of Chicago
- Student Travel Award, 1998 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium

- Young Investigator Award, Future Directions in Nuclear Medicine
- Farwest Tuition and Travel Scholarship, Eighth Far West Image Perception

- New Focus Travel Award, 1999 Annual Meeting of the OSA
- New Focus Travel Award, 2000 Annual Meeting of the OSA

Representative Peer-Reviewed Articles

M. Anastasio, H. Yoshida, R. Nagel, R. Nishikawa, and K. Doi: A Genetic Algorithm-Based Method for Optimizing Performance of a Computer-Aided Diagnosis Scheme for Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications in mammograms, Medical Physics, 25, 1613-1620, 1998.

M. Anastasio, M. Kupinski, and X. Pan: Noise Properties in Diffraction Tomography: Comparision of Conventional Reconstruction Algorithms with a New Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 45, 2216-2223, 1998.

M. Anastasio, M. Kupinski, and R. Nishikawa: Optimization and FROC Analysis of Rule-Based Detection Schemes Using a Multiobjective Approach , IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 17, 1089-1093, 1998.

4. M. Anastasio, X. Pan, and C. Kao: Multi-Dimensional Smoothing Using Orthogonal Expansions, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 6, 91-94, 1998.

X. Pan, M. Anastasio, and C. Kao: A Comparative Study of Image Reconstruction in SPECT and Diffraction Tomography, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 46, 527-534, 1999.

M. Kupinski and M. Anastasio: Multiobjective Genetic Optimization of Diagnostic classifiers with Implications for Generating ROC Curves, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 18, 675-685, 1999.

C. Kao, X. Pan, P. La Riviere, and M. Anastasio: A Fourier-Based Optimal Recovery
Approach for Anti-Aliasing Interpolation, Optical Engineering, 38, 2041-2044, 1999.

X. Pan and M. Anastasio: Short-Scan Filtered Backpropagation Algorithms for Diffraction Tomography, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 16, 2896-2903, 1999.

M. Anastasio and X. Pan: Computationally Efficient and Statistically Robust Image Re-construction in 3D Diffraction Tomography, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 17, 391-400, 2000.

M. Anastasio and X. Pan: A New Reconstruction Algorithm for Reflection Mode Diffraction Tomography, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 9, 1262-1271, 2000.

M. Anastasio and X. Pan: Investigation of the Noise Properties of an Infinite Class of
Reconstruction Methods in Diffraction Tomography, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 10, 437-446, 2000.

M. Anastasio and X. Pan: Full- and Minimal-Scan Reconstruction Algorithms for Fan-Beam Diffraction Tomography, Applied Optics, 2000 (in press).

M. Anastasio and X. Pan: Comments on the Filtered Backprojection Algorithm, Range Conditions, and the Pseudoinverse Solution, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 20:6, 539-542, 2001.