Pew-Thian YAP

Education: Ph.D., University of Malaya, Malaysia

Affiliation: Dept. of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., U.S.A.

Position: Post-Doc Research Associate (Working Under Dr. Dinggang Shen)

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Research Interest: Registration/Segmentation of MR Images, Deformable Models, Brain Connectivity, Graph Theory, Theoretical Neuroanatomy, Neurocognitive Development, Ensemble Learning, Feature Selection, Dimensionality Reduction, Image Moments, Invariants, Special Polynomials

Selected Publications:

• "Improving HAMMER Registration Algorithm by Soft Correspondence Matching and Thin-Plate Splines based Deformation Interpolation", accepted for NeuroImage. [Guorong Wu, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen]
• "Groupwise Registration Based on Hierarchical Image Clustering and Atlas Synthesis", accepted for Human Brain Mapping. [Qian Wang, Liya Chen, Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Dinggang Shen]
• "TIMER: Tensor Image Morphing for Elastic Registration", NeuroImage, vol. 47, pp. 549-563, 2009. [Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen]
• "Fast Tensor Image Morphing for Elastic Registration", MICCAI 2009, London, UK, Sept. 20 to 24, 2009. [Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen]
• "Attribute Vector Guided Groupwise Registration", MICCAI 2009, London, UK, Sept. 20 to 24, 2009. [Qian Wang, Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Dinggang Shen]
• "TIMER: Tensor Image Morphing for Elastic Registration", MMBIA 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, June 20th, 2009. [Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen] (Oral Presentation)
• "Cortical Enhanced Tissue Segmentation of Neonatal Brain MR Images Acquired by a Dedicated Phased Array Coil", MMBIA 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, June 20th, 2009. [Feng Shi, Pew-Thian Yap, Yong Fan, Jie-Zhi Cheng, Lawrence Wald, Guido Gerig, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen]
• "Regularization of Diffusion Tensor Field Using Coupled Robust Anisotropic Diffusion", MMBIA 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, June 20th, 2009. [Songyuan Tang, Yong Fan, Hongtu Zhu, Pew-Thian Yap, Wei Gao, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen]
• "Construction of Probabilistic Atlases for Neonates and One-year-olds", 95th RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 29-Dec. 4, 2009. [Feng Shi, Pew-Thian Yap, Yong Fan, John Gilmore, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen]
• "F-TIMER: Fast Tensor Image Morphing for Elastic Registration", 95th RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 29-Dec. 4, 2009. [Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen] (Oral Presentation)
• "Hierarchical Diffusion Tensor Image Registration Based on Tensor Regional Distributions", ISMRM09, Hawaii, April 18-24, 2009. [Pew-Thian Yap, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen]
• "Two Dimensional Polar Harmonic Transforms for Invariant Image Representation", IEEE TPAMI, in press. [Pew-Thian Yap, Xudong Jiang, Alex Kot]
• "Boosted Complex Moments for Discriminant Rotation Invariant Object Recognition", ICPR 2008, Florida, USA, Dec. 8 to 11, 2008. [Pew-Thian Yap, Xudong Jiang, Alex Kot]
• "LDA Enhanced Moments", ICICS 2007, Singapore, Dec. 10 to 13, 2007. [Pew-Thian Yap, Xudong Jiang, Alex Kot]
• "Image Analysis Using Hahn Moments", IEEE TPAMI, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 2057-2062, 2007. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran, Sing-Huat Ong]
• "Eigenmoments", Pattern Recognition, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 1234-1244, 2007. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran]
• "Content-based Image Retrieval Using Legendre Chromaticity Distribution Moments", IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 17-24, 2006. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran]
• "An Effcient Method for the Computation of Legendre moments", IEEE TPAMI, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 1996-2002, 2005. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran]
• "An image focus measure based on Tchebichef moments", IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, vol. 151, no. 2, pp. 128-136, 2004. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran]
• "Image analysis by Krawtchouk moments", IEEE TIP, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1367-1377, 2003. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran]
• "Image restoration of noisy images using Tchebichef moments", APCCAS, Singapore, Dec. 16 to 18, 2002. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran]
• "Krawtchouk moments as a new set of moments for image reconstruction", IJCNN, Hawaii, USA, May 12 to 17, 2002. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran, Seng-Huat Ong]
• "Chebyshev moments as a new set of moments for image reconstruction,", IJCNN, Washington DC, USA, May 15 to 19, 2001. [Pew-Thian Yap, Raveendran Paramesran, Seng-Huat Ong] (IEEE NNC 2001 Student Travel Grant Recipient)

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