Publications

JOURNALS

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "Variational Curve Skeletons Using Gradient Vector Flow," IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence PAMI, Accepted for publication, Sep 2008. NEW

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "Multistencils Fast Marching Methods: A Highly Accurate Solution to the Eikonal Equation on Cartesian Domains," IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence PAMI, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1-12, Sep 2007.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Alaa Abdel-Hakim, "PDE-Based Robust Robotic Navigation," Journal of Image and Vision Computing IMAVIS, Accepted for Publication, 2007.

M. Sabry. Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, S. Hushek, and T. Moriarty, "Cerebrovascular Segmentation from TOF Using Stochastic Models," Medical Image Analysis Journal MEDIMA, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 2-16, Feb 2006.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Robert Falk, "Fly-over Method Provides Better Colonoscopy Visualization," Biomedical Optics & Medical Imaging Newsroom of the International Society of Optical Engineering SPIE.

CONFERENCES

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "On the Extraction of Curve Skeletons using Gradient Vector Flow," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-20, 2007.

Acceptance rate is 23.5%

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Robert Falk, "Virtual Fly-Over: A New Visualization Technique For Virtual Colonoscopy," Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, vol. I, pp. 381-388.

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "Accurate Tracking of Monotonically Advancing Fronts," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR, New York, NY, USA June 17-22, 2006, vol I, pp. 355 - 362.

Acceptance rate is 23.5%

D. Chen, M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Robert Falk, "An Improved 2D Colonic Polyp Segmentation Framework Based on Gradient Vector Flow Deformable Model," Proc. of International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Virtual Reality MIAR, In conjunction with ICPR, Hong Kong, August 20-24, 2006, pp. 373-380.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Robert Falk, "An Efficient Validation Method for Measuring the Effectiveness of Display Modes in Virtual Colonoscopy," Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery CARS, Osaka, JP, June 28-July 1, 2006.

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "Robust Centerline Extraction Framework Using Level Sets," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR, San Diego, CA, USA June 20-26, 2005, pp. 458-465.

(ORAL Presentation) Oral acceptance rate is 6%. Overall acceptance rate is 28%.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Robert Falk, "Differential Fly-Throughs (DFT): A General Framework For Computing Flight Paths," Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI, Palm Springs, California, October 26-29, 2005, pp. 654-661.

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "PDE-Based Three Dimensional Path Planning For Virtual Endoscopy," Proc. of Information Processing in Medical Imaging IPMI, Glenwood springs, Colorado, USA, July 11-15, 2005, pp. 529-540.

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "Robust Skeletonization Using The Fast Marching Method," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, pp. 437-440.

The paper has been ranked among the best 10% of the conference papers.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Alaa Abdel-Hakim, "Robust Robotic Path Planning Using Level Sets," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, pp. 473-476.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, "Cerebrovascular Segmentation from TOF Using Stochastic Models," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, pp. 29-32.

The paper has been ranked among the best 10% of the conference papers.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, and Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, "PDE-Based Robust Robotic Navigation," Proc. of Second Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision CRV, British Columbia, Canada, May 9-11, 2005, pp. 176- 183.

My Maple has been selected to be on the proceedings cover and as a separator page btw sessions.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, "3D Path Planning For Virtual Endoscopy," Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery CARS, Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 115-120.

M. Sabry Hassouna, A. El-Baz, and Aly A. Farag, "Real Time Vision-Based Image Guided Neurosurgery," Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery CARS, Chicago, IL, June 23-26, 2004, pp. 467-472.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, S. Hushek, and T. Moriarty, "Statistical-Based Approach for Extracting 3D Blood Vessels from TOF-MRA Data," International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI, Montréal, Canada, November 15-18, 2003, pp. 680-687.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Charles B. Sites, Aly A. Farag, Stephen Hushek, and Thomas Moriarty "Statistical Cerebrovascular Segmentation for Phase-Contrast MRA Data," Proc. of the International Conf. on Biomedical Engineering ICBE, Cairo, Egypt, December, 2002.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Charles B. Sites, Aly A. Farag, Stephen Hushek, and Thomas Moriarty "A Fast Automatic Method for 3D Volume Segmentation of the Human Cerebrovascular,” Proc. of the 13th International Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery CARS, Paris, France, 26-29 June 2002, pp. 382-387.

Book CHAPTERS

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "Accurate Tracking of Monotonically Advancing Fronts," in Jasjit S. Suri and Aly A. Farag, editors, Parametric and Geometric Deformable Models: An application in Biomaterials and Medical Imagery, ch. 8, volume 2, pp. 235-258, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-31201-9, 2007.

M. Sabry Hassouna and Aly A. Farag, "PDE-Based Three Dimensional Path Planning For Virtual Endoscopy," in Jasjit S. Suri and Aly A. Farag, editors, Parametric and Geometric Deformable Models: An application in Biomaterials and Medical Imagery, ch. 13, volume 2, pp. 445-473, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-31201-9, 2007.

Technical REPORTS

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, Robert Falk, and Stephen Hushek, "Reliable Fly-Throughs of Vascular Trees," May, 2004.

M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, "Theoretical Foundations of Tracking Monotonically Advancing Fronts Using Fast Marching Level Set Method," February, 2005.