Terry S. Yoo
Curriculum Vitae

Computer Scientist
Office of High Performance Computing and Communication
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/~yoo


Building 38A, Room B1N30P
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
(301) 435-3268, fax - (301) 402-4080
e-mail: yoo@nlm.nih.gov


RESEARCH
INTERESTS


3D medical image processing and data visualization. Multiscale image analysis. Computer vision. Computer graphics. Computational geometry. Parallel and distributed algorithms for image acquisition, processing and information display.

EDUCATION



University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D., Computer Science, December 1996.
Thesis: Image Geometry Through Multiscale Statistics.
Advisor: Stephen M. Pizer


University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.S., Computer Science, May 1990.

Harvard University, A.B., Biology; June 1985.
EXPERIENCE
Teaching
Sep '96 - Aug '98
Lecturer: Physics in Medicine - A Course in Radiologic Physics
Department of Radiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Instructor for a seminar in radiologic physics for radiology residents. Material covers basic atomic physics, x-ray production, digital image processing, x-ray CT, nuclear medicine, MRI, ultrasound, and photostimulable phosphor technology.

Spring '94

Instructor for COMP 140: Introduction to Translators
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Served as sole instructor for an advanced undergraduate course in computer translator technology. Had creative control of the course curriculum including all examinations, assignments, lecture material and semester projects. The course presented regular problem sets as well as three programming projects: implementing a simple assembler, a macro-processor and a compiler.

Spring '89

Teaching Assistant COMP 14: Introduction to Computer Programming
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prepared supplemental material, graded assignments and exams, held regular office hours.

Fall '85
Fall '82 - '84

Teaching Fellow CS 11: Computers, Algorithms and Programming
Teaching Fellow CS 10: Introduction to Computer Programming
Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Conducted weekly recitations supplemental to regular lectures, graded assignments and exams, and held regular office hours.

Research &
Development

Sep '98 - present
Computer Scientist
Office of High Performance Computing and Communication
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Reseach computer scientist in medical imaging, computer graphics, computational geometry, and statistical and structural pattern analysis through the calculus of scale-space. Also a program project officer for the Visible Human Project Visible Human Project.

Oct '95 - Aug '98


Asst. Professor of Radiology & Research Asst. Professor of Engineering
Department of Radiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center
School of Engineering, University of Mississippi
Research director of digital simulation and visualization projects for Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Coordinating projects in both the Engineering School (CS) and the Medical School (Radiology). Director of radiology information systems: integrating the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), supervising the implementation of the Radiology Information System (RIS), evaluating digital dictation systems (including voice recognition), designing and implementing radiology equipment and a LAN-WAN network for campus-wide filmless radiology.

May '91 - Jun '93

Senior Research Associate
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC grant manager for the Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, a distributed research collaboration among five university programs and departments in computer graphics, cosponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Served as technical leader for the procurement and implementation of a wide-area multimedia network including data and teleconferencing communications. Drafted annual budgets, assembled annual technical reports, and procured computer and video equipment.

Aug '90 - May '91
Jul '93 - Jul '95
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scientific visualization programmer for the MIP project. Designed user interfaces for direct visualization of three-dimensional medical data. Project included networking Unix workstations to Pixel-Planes 5, a prototype system for fast computer graphics. Explored slice-plane-based as well as true 3D medical image processing. Also research in machine vision and computational geometry.

Jul '87 - Aug '90

Member Technical Staff
Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, NC
Systems programmer for MCNC's distributed environment. Responsibilities extended to Internet, statewide wide-area-network and company-wide local-area-network maintenance as well as distributed systems support (Digital Equipment, Sun and Convex systems).

Oct '86 - Jul '87

Information Systems Designer
AT&T Technologies, Burlington, NC
Member of the Enhanced Modular Signal Processing project (EMSP), a joint project with Bell Labs. EMSP is a microcoded multiprocessor data-flow machine optimized to perform real-time signal processing tasks. Implemented microcode simulators, assemblers/compilers and software tools for debugging and regression testing.

Jun '85 - Aug '86

Scientist
BBN Laboratories, Incorporated, Cambridge, MA
Member of the Simulation and Training Systems Department. Engineer on the Simulation Networking project (SIMNET) for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. SIMNET is a large-scale distributed real-time interactive multiplayer multi-vehicle training system. This technology incorporates graphics and local-area networking forming a distributed virtual environment for multi-vehicle team training. Responsibilities included simulation engineering.

Sep '83 - Jun '85

Computer Services System Staff
Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
Systems consultant/operator for students and university staff using Unix and VMS. Also included some support in course-related use of PCs and the Apple Macintoshes. Responsibilities involved file system maintenance, general operating system maintenance, and Unix systems programming.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Jul '98

Tutorial Chair: 3D Visualization in Medicine
SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, FL
Jul '94

Tutorial Lecturer: Three-Dimensional Visualization of Medical Data
SIGGRAPH 94, Orlando, FL
Jul '93

Tutorial Chair: Three-Dimensional Visualization Using Medical Data
SIGGRAPH 93, Anaheim, CA
Sep '92 - May '94

Student Representative: Faculty Search Committee
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FUNDING: CONTRACTS AND GRANTS

October '97


General Electric Medical Systems, PI
Computer Assisted Surgical Planning and Simulation for Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Matching Funds. Value: $35,000
August '97


Sun Microsystems Academic Equipment Grant, Co-PI with Penny Rheingans, Univ. Mississippi
Computer Assisted Surgical Planning and Simulation for Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Grant. Value: $134,220 list price in equipment from Sun Microsystems, Inc.
January '97



Institute for Technology Development, PI
Simulation and Training for Magnetic Resonance Therapy
Simulation and Visualization Workbench for the GE SIGNA-SP, simultaneous MR imaging and surgery
Contract. Value: $42,400 - Simulator infrastructure, research assistant salaries, operational expenses.

PUBLICATIONS

Dissertation

Terry S. Yoo. 1996. Image Geometry Through Multiscale Statistics. Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [available as UNC Technical Report TR97-039]

Submitted or In Preparation

Terry S. Yoo. 1999. Multiscale Statistical Image Invariants. Submitted to: 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, http://www.cs.toronto.edu/iccv99.

Terry S. Yoo and Penny Rheingans. Interactive Surgical Simulation for Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
In preparation.

Refereed

Terry S. Yoo and David T. Chen. 1994. Interactive 3D Medical Visualization: A Parallel Approach to Surface Rendering. In Computer Applications to Assist Radiology, (Proceedings of S/CAR '94, Symposium for Computer Assisted Radiology). John M. Boehme, Alan H. Rowberg, and Neil T. Wolfman, eds. 100-105. Carlsbad, CA: Symposia Foundation. [Also available as UNC Technical Report TR94-059]

Terry S. Yoo and James M. Coggins. 1993. Using Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques to Control Variable Conductance Diffusion. In Information Processing in Medical Imaging (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 687), Harrison H. Barrett and Arthur F. Gmitro, eds. 495-471. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [Also available as UNC Technical Report TR94-047]

Terry S. Yoo, Ulrich Neumann, Henry Fuchs, Stephen M. Pizer, Tim Cullip, John Rhoades, and Ross Whitaker. July 1992. Direct Visualization of Volume Data. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 12(4):63-71.

supersedes

Terry S. Yoo, Ulrich Neumann, Henry Fuchs, Stephen M. Pizer, Tim Cullip, John Rhoades, and Ross Whitaker. 1991. Achieving Direct Volume Visualization with Interactive Semantic Region Selection. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '91. Gregory Nielson and Larry Rosenblum, eds. 58-65. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Also available as UNC Technical Report TR91-012]

Helen E. Harrison, Stephen P. Schaefer, and Terry S. Yoo. 1988. Rtools: Tools for Software Management in a Distributed Computing Environment. In Proceedings of USENIX '88 . 85-94. Berkeley, CA: Usenix Association.

Unrefereed

Terry S. Yoo. 1994. Statistics and Scale in Variable Conductance Diffusion. In Proceedings of Computer Vision in Medicine (AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA). AAAI Technical Report SS-94-05. 186-190. [Also available as UNC Technical Report TR94-058]

Technical Reports

T. Marc Olano and Terry S. Yoo. 1993. Precision Normals: Beyond Phong. Technical Report TR93-021, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 1-4.

Terry S. Yoo and T. Marc Olano. 1993. Instant Hole: Windows onto Reality. Technical Report TR93-027, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 1-13.

Other Publications

Henry Fuchs and Terry S. Yoo eds. 1993. Three-dimensional Visualization Using Medical Data, Tutorial Notes for SIGGRAPH 93. 200 pp.

Elliot Herman and Terry S. Yoo. January 1993. Photo, Agricultural Research 41(1): Cover.

Terry S. Yoo. 1992. Statistics and VCD. Poster, Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC '92), Chapel Hill, NC.

Suresh Balu, James C. Chung, Brad Crittenden, and Terry S. Yoo. 1991. Radiation Treatment Planning with a Head Mounted Display. Interactive Demonstration of a VR System (SIGGRAPH '91, Las Vegas, NV). Abstract in Proceedings of Tomorrow’s Realities (refereed forum), 13.

Terry S. Yoo, Ulrich Neumann, Henry Fuchs, Stephen M. Pizer, Tim Cullip, John Rhoades, and Ross Whitaker. 1991. Methods for Direct Visualization of 3D Medical Data. Poster, Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI '91), Wye College, Kent, UK.



References:

Stephen M. Pizer (Thesis Advisor)
Kenan Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
(919) 962-1785
smp@cs.unc.edu

James M. Coggins
Associate Professor and
Associate Chairman for Academic Affairs
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
(919) 962-1738
coggins@cs.unc.edu

Henry Fuchs
Federico Gil Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
(919) 962-1911
fuchs@cs.unc.edu

Stephen C. Crawford, M.D.
Saint Dominic Hospital
Department of Radiology
969 Lakeland Dr.
Jackson, MS 39216
(601) 364-6150
scclr@stdom.com

Teaching References:


Cynthia Pettit (Teaching Reference)
Software Engineer
Pixar Animation Studios
1001 West Cutting
Richmond, CA 94804
(510) 412-6062
kiki@pixar.com
Jan Prins (Additional Teaching Reference)
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
(919) 962-1913
prins@cs.unc.edu


Mon Mar 8 13:46:36 EST 1999
yoo@nlm.nih.gov

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