I am a Ph.D. candidate 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@csr.uky.edu
- Home Page: http://www.csr.uky.edu/~ningcao/
Teaching
- Fall 2007, CS537 - Numerical Analysis with Grzegorz W. Wasilkowski and CS570 - Modern Operating Systems, with Dr. Raphael Finkel.
- Spring 2008, CS221 - First Course in Computer Science for Engineers, with Mr. Ryan McKenzie.
- Fall 2008, CS221 - First Course in Computer Science for Engineers, with Dr. Debby Keen.
- Spring 2009, CS221 - First Course in Computer Science for Engineers, with Dr. Paul Piwowarski.
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
Google scholar search results.Conference Papers
- Ning Cao, Xuwei Liang, Qi Zhuang and Jun Zhang, "Approximating high angular resolution apparent diffusion coefficient profiles using spherical harmonics under biGaussian assumption". Medical Imaging 2009: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Feb. 2009. (Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7262 726204 (2009).
- 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);
- 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.
- Cheng Qin, Ning Kang, Ning Cao. "Performance evaluation of anisotropic diffusion simulation based tractography on phantom images.". ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2007: 521-522.
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
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)
- MINC: Medical Imaging NetCDF. (link) (manual)
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: