Tao Wan (Ph.D.)


Assistant Professor

Biomedical Imaging and Informatics Lab
School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering
Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

Email: taowan@buaa.edu.cn
or:  tao.wan.wan@gmail.com

Education

2005-2009: Ph.D, Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK
2002-2004: M.Sc (Hons.), Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK
1996-2000: B.Eng (Hons.), Computer Science, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
Professional Experience
2013 - Present: Assistant Professor, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, China.
2011 - 2013 : Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University / Boston University / Rutgers University, USA.
2010 - 2011 : Visiting Researcher, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University / University of Pittsburgh, USA.
2009 - 2010 : Senior Researcher, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), China.
Research Interests
Computer-aided Diagnosis/Prognosis System; Multi-functional, Multi-modal, and Multi-protocol Medical Image Registration; Breast Ultrasonography; Histopathology Image Analysis; Quantitative Image-based Signatures; Cardiovascular Diseases.
Image Segmentation; Image Denoising/Enhancement; Image Fusion; Statistical Modeling; Compressive Sensing; Computer Vision; Machine Learning.
Selected Publications
T.Wan, C.Zhu, and Z.Qin, Multi-focus Image Fusion Based on Robust Principal Component Analysis, the Pattern Recognition Letters, pp. 1001-08, Mar. 2013.
J.Yu, Z.Qin, T.Wan, and X.Zhang, Feature Integration Analysis of Bag-of-Features Model for Image Retrieval, accepted by the Neurocomputing, 2012.
Z.Qin and T.Wan, Hybrid Bayesian Estimation Tree Learning with Discrete and Fuzzy Labels, accepted by the Frontiers of Computer Science, 2013.
T.Wan and Z.Qin, The Application of Compressive Sensing for Image Fusion, the International Journal of Computer Mathematics, pp.1-6, Aug. 2011.
T.Wan, N.Canagarajah, and A.Achim, Multiscale Segmentation of Noisy Colour Images Using Cauchy Distribution in the Complex Wavelet Domain, the Journal of IET Image Processing, vol.5, no.2, pp. 159-70, Mar. 2011.
T.Wan, N.Canagarajah, and A.Achim, A Novel Region-Based Image Fusion Framework Using Alpha-Stable Distributions in the Complex Wavelet Domain, the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.11, No 4, pp. 624-33, Jun. 2009.
T.Wan, B.N.Bloch, S.Danish, A.Madabhushi, Learning Based Fiducial Driven Registration (LeFiR): Evaluating Laser Ablation Changes for Neurological Applications, accepted by the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Apr. 2013, San Francisco, California, USA.
T.Wan, B.N.Bloch, A.Madabhushi, A Novel Point-based Nonrigid Image Registration Scheme Based on Learning Optimal Landmark Configurations, accepted by the SPIE Medical Imaging, Feb. 2013, Florida, USA.
T.Wan, C.Zhu, R.Jie, and Z.Qin, A Robust Fusion Scheme for Mulitfocus Images by Using Sparse Features, accepted by the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2013, Vancouver, Canada.
X.Liu, Z.Qin, X.Zhang, and T.Wan, Color Saliency Model Based on Mean Shift Segmentation, accepted by the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2013, Vancouver, Canada.
J.Yu, Y.Cong, Z.Qin, and T.Wan, Cross-Modal Topic Correlations for Multimedia Retrieval, in the Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 246-49, Nov. 2012, Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
T.Wan, R.Liao, and Z.Qin, A Robust Feature Selection Approach Using Low Rank Matrices for Breast Tumors in Ultrasonic Images, in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1645-48, Sep. 2011, Brussels, Belgium.
T.Wan and Z.Qin, The Application of Compressive Sensing for Image Fusion, in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), pp. 3-9, Jul. 2010, Xi’an, China.
T.Wan, N.Canagarajah, and A.Achim, Compressive Image Fusion, in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1308-11, Oct. 2008, San Diego, California, USA.
T.Wan, G.Tzagkarakis, P.Tsakalides, N.Canagarajah, and A.Achim, Context Enhancement Through Image Fusion: A Multiresolution Approach Based on Convolution of Cauchy Distributions, in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp.1309-12, Mar. 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
T.Wan, N.Canagarajah, and A.Achim, Statistical Multiscale Image Segmentation via Alpha-Stable Modeling, in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol.4, pp. 357-60, Sep. 2007, San Antonio, Texas, USA.