Welcome!

I am a Ph.D. student of HiPSCCS and CMIDA lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky.

• Advisor: Dr. Jun Zhang
• Ph.D. Advisor Committee:
  • Dr. Jun Zhang
  • Dr. Fuhua (Frank) Cheng
  • Dr. Grzegorz W. Wasilkowski
  • Dr. Brian T. Gold

• E-mail: ningcao@cs.uky.edu
• Home Page: http://www.csr.uky.edu/~ningcao/

Teaching (TA)

Fall 2007, CS537 with Grzegorz W. Wasilkowski and CS570 with Raphael Finkel.

Spring 2008, CS221 with Ryan McKenzie.

Fall 2008, CS221 with Debby Keen.

Research

I am working on medical imaging processing. My research interest includes the following:

• Recovering fiber directions using High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging.
• Measuring the diversity of brain tissues across a population using Diffusion-Weighted MRI and T1 images.

Publications

Conference Paper

• Cheng Qin, Ning Kang, Ning Cao. "Performance evaluation of anisotropic diffusion simulation based tractography on phantom images.". ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2007: 521-522. (.bib)
• Ning Cao, Qi Zhuang, Xuwei Liang, Ruiwang Huang and Jun Zhang. "Computing White Matter Fiber Orientations in High Angular Resolution Diffusion-Weighted MRI". Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE 2007): 752-755, Wuhan, China, July 6-8, 2007.(.bib)
• Ning Cao, Brian T. Gold, and Jun Zhang. "Partial Volume Effect of Cingulum Tract in Diffusion-Tensor MRI". SPIE Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images: San Diego, California, Feb. 2008.(Preceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6916, 69161U (2008); doi: 10.1117/12.770962)

Technical Reports

• Xuwei Liang, Ning Cao, and Jun Zhang. "DTI Fiber Tract-Oriented Quantitative and Visual Analysis of White Matter Integrity". Technical Report CMIDA-HiPSCCS 002-08: Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, KY, 2008.
• Ning Cao, Qi Zhuang, Xuwei Liang, Ruiwang Huang, and Jun Zhang. "Computing White Matter Fiber Orientations in High Angular Resolution Diffusion-Weighted MRI". Technical Report No. 481-07: Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, KY, 2007.
• Jun Zhang, Hao Ji, Ning Kang, and Ning Cao. "Fiber tractography in diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging: a survey and beyond.". Technical Report No. 437-05: Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, KY, 2005.

Presentations

• "Computing White Matter Fiber Orientations using BiGaussian model in High Angular Resolution Diffusion-Weighted MRI". International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE 2007), Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 20-23, 2007.

Tools

• MRIcro: Medical image viewer. (link)
• FSL: Image analysis and statistical tools for fMRI, MRI and DTI. (link)
• MayaVi: A free, easy to use scientific data visualizer. (link)

Coding for research

Languages:

• C/C++: most console programs.
• Perl: simple scripts to execute other programs.
• Python, TCL: simple programs invoking VTK.
• Matlab: computation, prototype and visualization.

Toolkits:

• VTK: The Visualization Toolkit. (link)
• ITK: The Segmentation and Registration Toolkit. (link)