Shaoting (Tony) Zhang

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Computational Biomedicine Imaging & Modeling Center
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
617 Bowser Road Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone: (732)991-9820
Email: shaoting at cs dot rutgers dot edu

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What's new

04/2012: Call for papers, the MICCAI'12 workshop on Sparsity Techniques in Medical Imaging. Submission deadline: June 5th, 2012.
02/2012: Four papers accepted by ISBI'12. Congrats to Xinyi, Yan, and Gokhan.
10/2011: Passed my PhD dissertation defense. Thanks to my committee members: Dimitris Metaxas, Vladimir Pavlovic, Tina Eliassi-Rad, and Ron Kikinis.
09/2011: Our paper Deformable Segmentation via Sparse Shape Representation was selected as the MICCAI'11 Young Scientist Award Finalist. The Python code was released.
09/2011: Finished my summer internship at NEC labs, mentored by Ming Yang. We're working on the large scale image retrieval. Check out our online demo.
06/2011: Our paper 4D Cardiac Reconstruction Using High Resolution CT Images won the FIMH'11 Best Paper Award. Kudos to Mingchen.
10/2010: Our paper Efficient MR Image Reconstruction for Compressed MR Imaging won the MICCAI'10 Young Scientist Award. The Matlab code was released.
08/2010: Finished my summer internship at Siemens Medical Solution, mentored by Yiqiang Zhan. We're doing research on the deformable model based segmentation with sparse shape priors.
06/2010: Presented our oral paper Automatic Image Annotation Using Group Sparsity at CVPR'10. The Matlab code was release.
05/2010: Presented our oral paper Skeleton Based As-Rigid-As-Possible Volume Modeling at Eurographics 2010. The C++ code was release, which includes mesh editing and geometry processing.
06/2009: Presented our paper LV Surface Reconstruction from Sparse tMRI using Laplacian Surface Deformation and Optimization at ISBI 2009. The C++ code was release.

Interests
	Medical image analysis: segmentation, simulation and modeling Computer vision: automatic image annotation and retrieval Computer graphics: shape deformation, geometry processing
Education
	2007 - 2011, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers University 2005 - 2007, M.S. in Computer Software and Theory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2001 - 2005, B.E. in Software Engineering, Zhejiang University
Experience
	2012 - present, Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University 2009 - 2011, Graduate Assistant at Rutgers University Summer, 2011, Research Intern at Department of Media Analytics, NEC Labs (CA) Summer, 2010, Research Intern at Siemens Healthcare (PA) 2007 - 2009, Teaching Assistant at Rutgers University 2005 - 2007, Research Assistant at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Awards
	MICCAI Young Scientist Award Finalist, 2011. [Paper] The 14th Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention FIMH Best Paper Award, 2011. [Paper] The 6th Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart MICCAI Young Scientist Award, 2010. [Paper] The 13th Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Projects	My research projects
Teaching	My teaching experience
Selected Publications	Full list of my publications and patents
	Towards Robust and Effective Shape Modeling: Sparse Shape Composition. [PDF] [Project] [Code, Python] Shaoting Zhang, Yiqiang Zhan, Maneesh Dewan, Junzhou Huang, Dimitris Metaxas and Xiang Zhou. Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 265-277. Composite Splitting Algorithms for Convex Optimization. [PDF] [Project] [Code, Matlab] Junzhou Huang, Shaoting Zhang, Hongsheng Li and Dimitris Metaxas. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1610-1622. Integrating Shape and Texture in 3D Deformable Models: From Metamorphs to Active Volume Models. [PDF] Tian Shen, Shaoting Zhang, Junzhou Huang, Xiaolei Huang and Dimitris Metaxas. Book chapter in Multi Modality State-of-the-Art Medical Image Segmentation and Registration Methodologies. (corresponding author) Efficient MR Image Reconstruction for Compressed MR Imaging. [PDF] [Project] [Code, Matlab] Junzhou Huang, Shaoting Zhang and Dimitris Metaxas. Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), Volume 15, Issue 5, October 2011, Pages 670-679. Robust Mesh Editing Using Laplacian Coordinates. [PDF] [Code, C++] Shaoting Zhang, Junzhou Huang and Dimitris Metaxas. Graphical Models, Volume 73, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 10-19. Optimal Object Matching via Convexification and Composition. [PDF] [Video 1] [Video 2] [Video 3] [Video 4] Hongsheng Li, Junzhou Huang, Shaoting Zhang, and Xiaolei Huang. The 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011. Deformable Segmentation via Sparse Shape Representation. [PDF] [Project] [Code, Python] Shaoting Zhang, Yiqiang Zhan, Maneesh Dewan, Junzhou Huang, Dimitris Metaxas and Xiang Zhou. The 14th Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2011. MICCAI Young Scientist Award Finalist 4D Cardiac Reconstruction Using High Resolution CT Images. [PDF] [Video] Mingchen Gao, Junzhou Huang, Shaoting Zhang, Zhen Qian, Szilard Voros, Dimitri Metaxas and Leon Axel. The International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH), 2011. Best Paper Award Efficient MR Image Reconstruction for Compressed MR Imaging. [PDF] [Slides] [Project] [Code, Matlab] Junzhou Huang, Shaoting Zhang and Dimitris Metaxas. The 13th Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2010. MICCAI Young Scientist Award, oral presentation, acceptance rate: 45 / 786 = 5.7% Automatic Image Annotation Using Group Sparsity. [PDF] [Slides] [Code, Matlab] Shaoting Zhang, Junzhou Huang, Yuchi Huang, Yang Yu, Hongsheng Li and Dimitris Metaxas. The 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010. Oral presentation, acceptance rate: 78 / 1717 = 4.5% Skeleton Based As-Rigid-As-Possible Volume Modeling. [PDF] [Slides] [Code, C++] Shaoting Zhang, Andrew Nealen and Dimitris Metaxas. The 31st conf. of the European Association for Computer Graphics (EG), 2010. (short paper, oral) LV Surface Reconstruction from Sparse tMRI using Laplacian Surface Deformation and Optimization. [PDF] [Code, C++] Shaoting Zhang, Xiaoxu Wang, Dimitris Metaxas, Ting Chen and Leon Axel. The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2009.