Jovan Brankov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Technology Business Center (TBC) M-103, Siegel Hall 140
3301 South Dearborn Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312.567.8819
Fax: 312.567.8976
Email:
brankov@iit.edu
Web:
Personal Webpage
Expertise
- Medical imaging, image sequence processing, pattern recognition and data mining. Emphasis on reconstruction, restoration, analysis (e.g. motion tracking, segmentation), recognition and images acquisition, especially for biomedical applications.
Education
- Dipl. Ing., Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, 1996
- M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1999
- Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 2002
Research
Dr. Brankov received the Diploma of electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1996. He received the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
Dr. Brankov joined Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2002 as a researcher. He was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in 2004. His research interest includes medical imaging, image sequence processing, pattern recognition and data mining. Emphasis on reconstruction, restoration, analysis (e.g. motion tracking, segmentation, tumor detection), recognition and images acquisition, especially for biomedical applications. His current research topics include 4D and 5D tomographic image reconstruction methods for medical image sequences, multiple-image radiography (a new phase-sensitive imaging method), and image quality assessment based on a human-observer model. He is author/co-author of 54 publications and 2 technical reports.
His other technical activities include:
- Associate Editor, Medical Physics, 2005-present
- Senior Member IEEE
- Reviewer for 8 Journals
- Technical comity: IEEE: MIC 2005-present, ICTA’05
- Consultant for Nuclear Medicine Group, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Hoffman Estates, 2004- present
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
"A fast algorithm for accurate content-adaptive mesh generation," (with Y. Yang, and M. N. Wernick) IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 12, pp. 866-881, 2003.
"Segmentation of dynamic PET or fMRI images based on a similarity metric," (with N. P. Galatsanos, Y. Yang, and M. N. Wernick) IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 50, pp. 1410-1414, 2003.
"Multiple-image radiography," (with M. N. Wernick, O. Wirjadi, D. Chapman, Z. Zhong, N. P. Galatsanos, Y. Yang, O. Oltulu, M. A. Anastasio, and C. Muehleman,) Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 48, pp. 3875-3895, 2003.
"Learning a nonlinear channelized observer for image quality assessment," (with I. El Naqa, Y. Yang, and M. N. Wernick) Conference Record of the 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 2003.
"Tomographic image reconstruction based on a content-adaptive mesh model," (with Y. Yang, and M. N. Wernick) IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Conference, 2004.
"Estimating the standard deviation from extreme gaussian values," (with H. Stark) IEEE Signal Processing, in press.
"Yes, You Can See Cartilage With X-rays (Diffraction Enhanced Imaging for Cartilage and Bone)," (with C. Muehleman, J. Li, M. Wernick, K. Kuettner, and Z. Zhong) Journal of Musculosketal and Neuronal Interactions, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 369-370, 2004.
"4D Smoothing of gated SPECT images using a left-ventricle shape model and a deformable mesh," (with Y. Yang, B. Feng, M. A. King, and M. N. Wernick) Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 2004.
"Digital watermarking robust to geometric distortions," (with P. Dong, N. P. Galatsanos, Y. Yang, and F. Davoine,) IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, no.12, pp. 2140-2150, 2005.
"Spatio-temporal processing of gated SPECT images using deformable mesh modeling," (with Y. Yang, and M. N. Wernick) Medical Physics , vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 2839-2849, 2005.
"Multiple-image radiography for soft tissue," (with C. Muehleman, J. Li, Z. Zhong, and M. N. Wernick) Journal of Anatomy vol. 208, pp. 115-124, 2006.
"A computed tomography implementation of multiple-image radiography, " (with M. N. Wernick, Y. Yang, J. Li, C. Muehleman, Z. Zhong, and M. A. Anastasio) Medical Physics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 278-289, 2006.
"A physical model of multiple-image radiography," (with G. Khelashvili, D. Chapman, Z. Zhong, Y. Yang, and M. N. Wernick) Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 221-236, 2006. – Institute of Physics (IOP) select award
"Spatially-adaptive temporal smoothing for dynamic image sequences," (with M. N. Wernick, M. A. King, Y. Yang, and M. V. Narayanan) IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, Issue 5, Part 1, pp. 2769 – 2777, Oct. 2006.
"An extended diffraction exanced imaging method for implementing multiple-image rediography," (with C.-Y. Chou, M. A. Anastasio, J. G. Brankov, M. N. Wernick, E. M. Brey, D. M. Connor, and Z. Zhong) accepted to Physics in Medicine and Biology.
"Learning a nonlinear channelized observer for image quality assessment," (with Y. Yang, L. Wei, I. El-Naqa, and M. N. Wernick) submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.