Education

B.A., Physics,Northwestern University,  1983

Ph.D., Optics, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 1990

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Physics, University of Chicago, 1990

Current research interests

Medical imaging, image processing, optics, data mining, pattern recognition. Emphasis on reconstruction, restoration, analysis, recognition, acquisition and retrieval of images, especially for biomedical applications.

Current projects

- 4D image reconstruction for dynamic and gated imaging (NIH R01, NIH R29)

- Signal detection techniques for functional neuroimaging

- Content-based image retrieval for mammography (NIH R21)

- New x-ray (synchrotron) imaging techniques (NIH BRP)

- Content-adaptive mesh generation for image representation (Whitaker (Y. Yang, PI))

- Object recognition using support vector machines

- Photon-limited object recognition 

- Infrared imaging for opthalmology

- Commercial data mining applications

Selected technical activities

- Senior Member, IEEE; Member, OSA

- Chair, IEEE Medical Imaging Awards Committee, 1997-present

- Chair, OSA Image Processing Technical Group, 1997-1999

- Member, IEEE Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Council, 1997

- Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Optics & Photonics News, 1997-1999

- Technical program committee member: IEEE MIC 1998-present; SNM Annual

  meeting 1998-present; OSA annual meeting 1995-1999; IEEE EMBS 1997 

- Reviewer, NSF, DOE, 18 journals & conferences in medical imaging, optics, signal/image processing

Books

Miles N. Wernick and John N. Aarsvold, eds., Working title: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT, New York: Academic Press, 2001, pp. 500 (est.), in preparation.

Book chapters

Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Miles N Wernick, and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, "Multichannel Image Recovery," in The Image and Video Processing Handbook, A. Bovik, Ed., San Diego: Academic Press,  pp. 155-168, 2000.

Selected papers

Ana S. Lukic, Miles N. Wernick, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Yongyi Yang, and Stephen C. Strother, "A Signal-Detection Approach for Analysis of Functional Neuroimages", IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, November 2002

Ana S. Lukic, Miles N. Wernick, Lars Kai Hansen, Stephen C. Strother, "An ICA Algorithm for Analyzing Multiple Data Sets", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002

Ana S. Lukic, Miles N. Wernick, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Yongyi Yang, and Stephen C. Strother, "A Reversible Jump Markov Chain Montecarlo Algorithm for Analysis of Functional Neuroimages", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002

Issam El Naqa, Yongyi Yang, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Miles N. Wernick, "Content-Based Image Retrieval for Digital Mammography", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002

Issam El-Naqa, Yongyi Yang, Miles N. Wernick, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Robert Nishikawa, "Support Vector Machine Learning for Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammograms", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002

Issam El-Naqa, Yongyi Yang, Miles N. Wernick, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Robert Nishikawa, "Support Vector Machine Learning for Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammograms", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington D.C., July 2002

Miles N. Wernick, Oliver Wirjadi, Dean Chapman, Oral Oltulu, Zhong Zhong, and Yongyi Yang, "Preliminaty Investigation of a Multiple-Image Radiography Method", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington D.C., July 2002

Jovan G. Brankov, Yongyi Yang, Richard M. Leahy, and Miles N. Wernick, "Multi-Modality Tomographic Image Reconstruction Using Mesh Modeling", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington D.C., July 2002

Ana S. Lukic, Miles N. Wernick, Lars Kai Hansen, Jon Anderson, and Stephen C. Strother, "A Spatially Robust ICA Algorithm for Multiple fMRI Data Sets", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington DC, July 2002

Ana S. Lukic, Miles N. Wernick, and Stephen C. Strother, "An Evaluation of Methods for Detecting Brain Activations from Functional Neuroimages", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol.25, no1, pp.69-88, May 2002

Y. Yang, M. Wernick, and J. Brankov, "A Fast Adaptive Accurate Content-Adaptive Mesh Generation",

IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Thessaloniki-Greece, September 2001.

J. Brankov, Y. Yang, and M. Wernick, "Tomographic Image Reconstruction Using Content-Adaptive Mesh Modeling"IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Thessaloniki-Greece, September 2001.

V. Manoj Narayanan, Michael A. King, Miles N. Wernick, Charles L. Byrne, Edward J. Soares, and P. Hendrik Pretorius, "Improved image quality and computation reduction in 4D reconstruction of cardiac gated SPECT images," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 19, pp. 423-433, 2000.

Vladimir Z. Mesarovic, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Miles N. Wernick, "Iterative LMMSE image restoration from partially-known blur," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 17, pp. 711-723, 2000.

J. Brankov, M. Wernick, Y. Yang, and V. M. Narayanan, "Spatially-Adaptive Temporal Smoothing for Reconstruction of Dynamic and Gated Image Sequences", Conference Record of the 2000 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 2000.

I. El-Naqa, M. Wernick, Y. Yang, and N. Galatsanos,"Image Retrieval Based on Similarity Learning", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Vancouver-Canada, September 2000.

Jongmin Lee, Yongyi Yang, and Miles N. Wernick, "A new approach for image-content adaptive mesh modeling," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vancouver-Canada, September 2000.

J. Brankov, J. Djordjevic, N. Galatsanos, and M. Wernick, "Tomographic Image Reconstruction for Systems with Partially-Known Blur", Proc. Int. Conference on Image Processing, Kobe-Japan, September 1999.

Ana Lukic, Miles N Wernick, and Stephen C. Strother, "Evaluation of methods for detection of brain activations from PET or fMRI images," Conference Record of the 1999 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 1999.

Miles N. Wernick, E. James Infusino, and Milos Milosevic, "Fast spatio-temporal image reconstruction for dynamic PET," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 18, pp. 185-195, March 1999.

V. Manoj Narayanan, Michael A. King, Edward Soares, Charles Byrne, Hendrik Pretorius and Miles N. Wernick, "Application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to 4D reconstruction of gated cardiac SPECT images," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 46, pp. 1001-1008, 1999.

A.S. Lukic, M.N. Wernick and S.C. Strother, "An Evaluation of Methods for Detecting Brain Activations
from PET or fMRI Images", IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, 1999

Miles N. Wernick, Melvin L. Griem, Andre Robotewskyj, and Peter F. Davies, "Image analysis of the dynamic changes of adhesion sites in endothelial cells subjected to directional flow in vitro," Journal of Vascular Investigation, vol. 4, pp. 15-23,1998.

Ahmad Abu-Naser, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Miles N. Wernick, and Dan Schonfeld, "Object recognition based on impulse restoration using an expectation-maximization algorithm," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 15, pp. 2327-2340, 1998.

Chien-Min Kao, Miles N. Wernick, and Chin-Tu Chen, "Kalman sinogram restoration for fast and accurate PET image reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 45, pp. 3022-3029, 1998.

V. Manoj Narayanan, Michael A. King, Edward Soares, Charles Byrne, Hendrik Pretorius and Miles N. Wernick, "Application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to 4D reconstruction of gated cardiac SPECT images," Conference Record of the 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 1998.

Peter F. Davies, Kenneth A. Barbee, Michael V. Volin, Andre Robotewskyj, Jai Chen, Loren Joseph, Melvin L. Griem, Miles N. Wernick, Elizabeth Jacobs, Denise C. Polacek, Natacha DePaola, and Abdul I. Barakat, "Spatial relationships in early signaling events of flow-mediated endothelial mechanotransduction," Annual Review of Physiology, vol. 59, pp. 527-549, 1997.

Ahmad Abu-Naser, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Miles N. Wernick, "Object recognition based on impulse restoration using the expectation-maximization algorithm," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-97), vol. 3, pp. 158-161, 1997.

Chien-Min Kao, Jeffrey T. Yap, Jogeshwar Mukherjee, and Miles N. Wernick, "Image reconstruction for dynamic PET based on low-order approximation and restoration of the sinogram," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 16, pp. 738-749, 1997.

Chien-Min Kao, Miles N. Wernick, and Chin-Tu Chen, "Kalman sinogram restoration for fast and accurate PET image reconstruction," in Conference Record of the 1997 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, M6-21, 1997.

Vladimir Z. Mesarovic, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Miles N. Wernick, "Restoration from partially-known blur using an expectation-maximization algorithm," in Proceedings of the Thirtieth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 95-100, 1996.

Jeffrey T. Yap, Chien-Min Kao, Malcolm Cooper, Chin-Tu Chen, and Miles N. Wernick, "Sinogram recovery of dynamic PET using principal component analysis and projections onto convex sets," in Quantification of Brain Function Using PET, R. Myers, et al., Eds., (Academic Press, San Diego), pp. 109-111, 1996.

Steve S. Yu, Miles N. Wernick, and Nikolas P. Galatsanos, "High-order entropy coding of medical image data using binary-decomposed representations," in Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 2622, pp. 879-884, 1995.

Vladimir Z. Mesarovic, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Miles N. Wernick, "Sinogram restoration from partially-known blur for tomographic reconstruction," in Conference Record of the 1995 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 1257-1261, 1995.

Vladimir Z. Mesarovic, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, and Miles N. Wernick, "Iterative maximum a posteriori (MAP) restoration from partially-known blur for tomographic reconstruction," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-95), vol. 2, pp. 561-564, 1995.

Miles N. Wernick and G. Michael Morris, "Effect of spatial coherence on knife-edge measurements of detector modulation transfer function," Applied Optics, vol. 33, pp. 5906-5913, 1994.

Steve S. Yu, Miles N. Wernick, and Nikolas P. Galatsanos, "Lossless compression of multi-dimensional medical image data using binary-decomposed high-order entropy coding," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-94), vol. 2, pp. 351-355, 1994.

Miles N. Wernick, Chien-Min Kao, and Chin-Tu Chen, "Evaluation of PET reconstruction with sinogram restoration and detector motion," in Conference Record of the 1993 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1454-1457, 1993.

Chunwu Wu, Miles N. Wernick, and Chin-Tu Chen, "A 3-D filtered-backprojection reconstruction algorithm for combined parallel- and cone-beam SPECT data," in Information Processing in Medical Imaging, H.H. Barrett and A.F. Gmitro, Eds., pp. 339-353 (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1993

Miles N. Wernick, "Pattern classification by convex analysis," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 8, pp. 1874-1880, 1991.

Miles N. Wernick and Chin-Tu Chen, "Superresolved tomography by convex projections and detector motion," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 9, pp. 1547-1553, 1992.

Miles N. Wernick and G. Michael Morris, "Image classification at low light levels," Journal of the   Optical Society of America A, vol. 3, pp. 2179-2187, 1986.

G. Michael Morris, Miles N. Wernick, and Thomas A. Isberg, "Image correlation at low light levels," Optics Letters, vol. 10, pp. 315-317, 1985