Chunming Li's Home Page

Chunming Li

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
University of Connecticut

Vistors since Oct, 2005

Selected Publications (with 1500+ citations recorded in Google Scholar) Back to top

Research themes: Level set method, image segmentation, MRI bias correction (intensity inhomogeneity correction), brain image analysis, illumination and reflectance, variational methods, partial differential equation for image processing and computer vision...

Papers and code (in Matlab/C/C++)
Papers	Code
C. Li, C. Xu, C. Gui, and M. D. Fox, "Distance Regularized Level Set Evolution and its Application to Image Segmentation", IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 19 (12), pp. 3243-3254, 2010 (pdf, BibTex, 40+ citations, website) (This paper generalizes and improves our preliminary work in CVPR'05, which has received 800+ c itations since 2005)	Code available here
C. Li, R. Huang, Z. Ding, C. Gatenby, D. N. Metaxas, and J. C. Gore, "A Level Set Method for Image Segmentation in the Presence of Intensity Inhomogeneities with Application to MRI", IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 20 (7), pp. 2007-2016, 2011. (pdf, BibTex, website)	Matlab code: .rar, .zip
C. Li, C. Kao, J. C. Gore, and Z. Ding, "Minimization of Region-Scalable Fitting Energy for Image Segmentation", IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 17 (10), pp. 1940-1949, 2008. (pdf, BibTex, website, 200+ citations)	Matlab code: .rar, .zip
C. Li, C. Xu, A. W. Anderson, and J. C. Gore, "MRI Tissue Classification and Bias Field Estimation Based on Coherent Local Intensity Clustering: A Unified Energy Minimization Framework". *IPMI 2009*. (pdf, BibTex, website)	Email request for the code
C. Li, C. Gatenby, L. Wang, and J. C. Gore, "A Robust Parametric Method for Bias Field Estimation and Segmentation of MR Images", *CVPR 2009*. (pdf, BibTex, website)	Email request for the code
C. Li, F. Li, C. Kao, and C. Xu, "Image Segmentation with Simultaneous Illumination and Reflectance Estimation: An Energy Minimization Approach", ICCV 2009. (pdf, BibTex, website)
C. Li, R. Huang, Z. Ding, C. Gatenby, D. N. Metaxas, and J. C. Gore, "A Variational Level Set Approach to Segmentation and Bias Correction of Images with Intensity Inhomogeneity", *MICCAI 2008. (Oral presentation*), (pdf, BibTex, PPT slides)
C. Li, C. Kao, J. C. Gore, and Z. Ding, "Implicit Active Contours Driven by Local Binary Fitting Energy", CVPR 2007. (pdf, BibTex, 180+ citations)
C. Li, C. Xu, C. Gui, and M. D. Fox, "Level Set Evolution Without Re-initialization: A New Variational Formulation", CVPR 2005. (Oral presentation). (pdf, BibTex, 800+ c itations) Note: The method in this paper was improved and generalized in our DRLSE paper.
C. Li, J. Liu, and M. D. Fox, "Segmentation of Edge Preserving Gradient Vector Flow: An Approach Toward Automatically Initializing and Splitting of Snakes", CVPR 2005. (pdf, BibTex, Demos)
Other journal papers in: SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, J. of Math. Imag. Vision (JMIV), Signal Processing, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, ...

Research Projects Back to top

Recent research

MRI bias correction (at Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science)
Level set methods
Snake models
Surface reconstruction from unorganized points
Multiple target tracking
Ultrasound image denoising
Texture segmentation

Research in Industry:

ABB Robotics Technology Group (6/2001--2/2003):

Robot calibration algorithm and software development
Camera calibration algorithm for 3D reconstruction
Sub-pixel edge detection and laser line detection for 3D scanner
Numerical methods for optimization

Pfizer Global Research & Development (5/2004--8/2005):

Ultrasound image analysis and measurement of carotid artery intima-media
Carotid artery motion analysis

Professional Activities Back to top

Reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Trans. Image Processing
IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics
IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science
Medical Image Analysis
Journal of Computational Physics
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Pattern Recognition
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Image and Vision Computing
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Medical Physics
Applied Mathematical Modelling
Signal Processing
Machine Vision and Application
Optical Engineering
Pattern Recognition Letters

Reviewer and Program Committee Member for Conferences:

Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI), 2006
IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009
IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2010
Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI), 2010
The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010
The 10th Assian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010
IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI), 2011
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2011
IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012

Invited Talks Back to top

"Variational and Level Set Methods in Image Segmentation", Mathematics Department, Ohio State University, June 7, 2007. (PPT slides)
"Vessel Segmentation Using Local Binary Fitting Active Contours", Mathematics Department, University of Connecticut, October, 2006

"Level Set Methods and Medical Image Segmentation", Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, December, 2005.
"Active Contours, Level Sets, and Image Segmentation", Department of Statistics, Florida State University, January, 2006.
"Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Concepts and Processing Techniques", Mathematics Department, Fudan University, October, 2005.