Education

B.A., Electrical Engineering, Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 1985

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 1988

M.S., Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 1992

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 1994

Current research interests

Signal and image processing, medical imaging, data mining, computer vision and applied mathematics.

Current projects

- Content-adaptive mesh generation for image representation (Whitaker)

- 4D image reconstruction for gated imaging (NIH R01)

- Signal detection techniques for functional neuroimaging

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

- Object recognition using support vector machines

Books

H. Stark and Y. Yang, Vector Space Projections: A Numerical Approach to Signal and Image Processing, Neural Nets, and Optics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1998.

Y. Yang, M. G. Choi, and N. P. Galatsanos, "Image Recovery from Compressed Video Using Multichannel Regularization," Recovery Techniques for Image and Video Compression and Transmission, ed., A. K. Katsaggelos and N. P. Galatsanos, Kluwer Academic, 1998

Book chapters

Y. Yang, M. Choi, and N. Galatsanos, “Image Recovery from Compressed Video Using Multi-channel Regularization”, Signal Recovery Techniques for Image and Video Compression and Transmission, Editors: A. K. Katsaggelos and N. P. Galatsanos, Kluwer Academic, pp. 69-97, 1998.

H. Stark and Y. Yang, Chapter 6: "Signal Processing by Projection Methods: Applications to Color Matching, Resolution Enhancement, and Blind Deconvolution";

Y. Yang and N. P. Galatsanos, ”Projection-Based Image Reconstruction from Compressed Data”, Signal Processing Methods for Audio, Images and Telecommunications, Editors: P. Clarkson, and H. Stark, Academic Press, Chapter 7, pp. 263-298, 1994.

Y. Yang and H. Stark, Chapter 10: "Probability Density Function Estimation Using Convex Projections", in Signal Processing Methods for Audio, Images and Telecommunications, ed., P. Clarkson and H. Stark, A

cademic Press, 1994.

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, 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

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.

M. C. Choi, Y. Yang, and N. P. Galatsanos, "Multichannel Regularized Recovery of Compressed Video Sequences," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 376-387, April 2001.

Y. Yang, H. Stark, "Design of Self-Healing Arrays Using Vector-Space Projections." IEEE Trans. on Antenna and Propagation, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 526-534, April 2001.

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, 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.

Y. Yang, H. Stark, D. Gurkan, et. al., "High diffraction efficiency pseudorandom encoding," accepted for publication in J. Opt. Soc. Am. A (to appear in late Fall 1999).

H. Stark, Y. Yang, and D. Gurkan, "Factors affecting convergence in the design of diffractive optics by iterative vector-space methods," vol.16, no.1, pp.149-159, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 1999.

U. Visitkitjakarn, W. Y. Chan, and Y. Yang, "Recovery of speech spectral parameters using convex set projection," Proc. 1999 IEEE Speech Coding Workshop, pp. 34-36, June 1999.

Y.Yang, M. Choi, and N. P. Galatsanos, "New results on multichannel regularized recovery of compressed video," Proc. Inter. Conf. Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 391-395, 1998

Y. Yang and N. Galatsanos, “Compression Artifact Removal Using Projections onto Convex Sets and Line Process Modeling, ” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 1345-1357, October 1997.

Y. Yang, N. P. Galatsanos and A. K. Katsaggelos, “Projection-Based Spatially-Adaptive Reconstruction of Block Transform Compressed Images,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 896-908, July 1995.

H. Stark, J. L. Wurster, and Y. Yang, "Restoration of quantum-limited images by convex projections," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol.12, pp.2586-2592, 1995.

Y. Yang and H. Stark, "Solutions of several color matching problems using projection theory," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol.11, no.1, pp.89-96, January 1994.

Y. Yang, N. P. Galatsanos and A. K. Katsaggelos, ``Set theoretic spatially-adaptive estimation of block transform compressed images'', SPIE's Symposium on Visual Communications and Image Processing '94, Chicago, September 1994.

Y. Yang and N. P. Galatsanos, ``High quality image recovery from low bit rate MPEG data'', SPIE's Symposium on Visual Communications and Image Processing '94, Chicago, September 1994.

Y. Yang, N. P. Galatsanos, and H. Stark, "A projection-based approach to the blind deconvolution problem," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A,, vol.11, pp.89--96, 1994.

Y. Yang, H. Stark, and N. P. Galatsanos, ``Blind deconvolution using a mixed projection-gradient approach,’’ Proc. of 1994 Inter. Symp. on Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, vol.2, pp. 788 –790, 1994.

Y. Yang and H. Stark, ``Solutions of several color matching problems using convex projection theory,’’ Proc. Inter. Symp. on Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, vol. 1, pp. 316 –318, 1994.

Y. Yang, N. P. Galatsanos and A. K. Katsaggelos, “Regularized Image Reconstruction to Remove Blocking Artifacts from Block Discrete Cosine Transform Compressed Images,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 421-432, December 1993.

Y. Yang, H. Stark, and N. P. Galatsanos, ``A projection-based approach to the blind deconvolution problem'',Proc. of SPIE, San Diego, June 1993.

Y. Yang, N. P. Galatsanos and A. K. Katsaggelos, ``Regularized reconstruction algorithm to remove blocking artifacts of block discrete cosine transform compressed images'', Inter. Conf. on Signal Processing, Beijing, October 1993.

Y. Yang, N. P. Galatsanos and A. K. Katsaggelos, ``Regularized reconstruction for removing blocking artifacts of block discrete cosine transform compressed images'', SPIE Symp. on Visual Communications and Image Processing '93, pp. 511-521, Boston, November 1993

Y. Yang, N. P. Galatsanos and A. K. Katsaggelos, "Regularized reconstruction to reduce blocking artifacts of block discrete cosine transform compressed images," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., vol.3, no.6, pp.421-432, December 1993.

L. Olson and Y. Yang, "Simplified models for ultrasonic cleaning wave incidence angle effects," Computational Mechanics, Vol.12, No.4, 245-254, 1993.

J. Wu and Y. Yang,"The dynamics of a non-linear discrete oscillator," International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Vol.18, No.1, 23-32, 1990.