Image research scientist

Zhijie Wang

AFFILIATION

Imaging Research Scientist

GE Healthcare

Telephone: +1-226-***-****

Email: ******@********.**

*** ********* **., **** **-137, SJHC

London, Ontario, N6A 4V2, Canada

SUMMARY

My background lies in Imaging Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning. I have had successful experience in solving real world problems with image processing techniques, e.g.,

1. Large lump detection problem, raised by oil sands mining company, Syncrude. The system has been integrated into the company internal website.

2. Sea ice classification problem, raised by Canadian Ice Service who considered to integrate the system into their workflow. The work has led to a published journal paper in the noted IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

3. Bi-ventricular cardiac volume estimation problem. The work has led to a filed patent, an abstract published in the well-known annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and a journal paper accepted by a leading biomedical engineering journal, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1. Imaging Research Scientist, GE Healthcare Mar. 2014-present

Medical Imaging Analysis: Develop methods that analyze medical (e.g. spinal and cardiac) imaging automatically for diagnosis purpose.

2. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Western Ontario Nov. 2012-Feb. 2014

Medical Imaging Analysis: Develop methods to automatically analyze cardiac imaging for diagnosis purpose.

3. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Waterloo Feb. 2012-Oct. 2012

Satellite SAR Sea Ice Classification project: Develop algorithms to facilitate the classification of SAR Sea Ice images provided by the Canadian Ice Service (CIS).

4. Campus Ambassador, Sun Microsystems 2007-2009

PATENT SUBMITTED

1. Zhijie Wang, Shuo Li, Ali Islam, and Aashish Goela. Automated Bi-ventrical Functional Assessment Workflow in PACS environment. US Patent Application No. 14/092,453.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles (in reverse chronological order)

1. Zhijie Wang, Xiantong Zhen, Shuo Li. Regression Segmentation for M^3 Spinal Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2014 (In communication).

2. Bin Gu, Victor S. Sheng, Zhijie Wang, Derek Ho, Said Osman, and Shuo Li. Incremental Learning for Support Vector Regression. Neural Networks, 2014 (In communication).

3. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Bin Gu, Ali Islam, Aashish Goela, and Shuo Li. Direct Estimation of Cardiac Bi-ventricular Volumes with an Adapted Bayesian Formulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2013.

4. Steven Leigh, ZhijieWang, David Clausi. Automated Ice-Water Classification Using Dual Polarization SAR Satellite Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2013.

5. ZhijieWang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Hong Zhang. Object Joint Detection and Tracking Using Adaptively Multiple Motion Models. The Visual Computer, March, 2013.

6. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Hong Zhang, and Nilanjan Ray. Shape Based Appearance Model for Kernel Tracking. Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, April, 2012.

7. Zheng Kuang and ZhijieWang. AModified Ant Colony Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. Computer Engineering And Applications, Vol. 42, No. 16, pp. 89-91, 2006.

Refereed Conference Papers (in reverse chronological order)

8. Xiantong Zhen, Zhijie Wang, Ali Islam, Mousumi Bhaduri, Ian Chan, and Shuo Li. A comparative Study of Methods for Cardiac Ventricular Volume Estimation. Radiological Society of North America, 2014.

9. Steven Leigh, Zhijie Wang, and David Clausi. Evaluation of MAGIC Sea Ice Classifier on 61 Dual Polarization RADARSAT-2 Scenes. Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing 2014.

10. Xiantong Zhen, ZhijieWang, and Shuo Li. Direct Estimation of Cardiac Bi-ventricular Volumes with Regression Forests. MICCAI 2014.

11. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Ismail Ben Ayed, Ali Islam, Aashish Goela, and Shuo Li. Bi-ventricular Volume Estimation for Cardiac Functional Assessment. Oral presentation in Radiological Society of North America, 2013.

12. Steven Leigh, Zhijie Wang, and David Clausi. Automated Ice-Water Classification using Dual Polarization SAR Imagery. Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing 2013.

13. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, and Hong Zhang. DWT Based Steam Detection with Adaboost. IEEE ICIA 2012.

14. Mohamed Ben Salah, Ismail Ben Ayed, Jing Yuan, Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. Convex Relaxation for Image Segmentation by Kernel Mapping. ICIP 2012.

15. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. Object Detection with Multiple Motion Models. In Computer Vision ACCV 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5996, pp. 183-192, 2010.

16. Zhijie Wang, Hong Zhang, and Nilanjan Ray. Tracking of Multiple Interacting Objects Using a Novel Prediction Model. In proceeding of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 869-872, Nov. 2009.

17. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. Joint Detection and Tracking of Multiple Objects in Occlusion Situations. In proceeding of International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, pp. 30-36, July 2009.

18. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. Lump Detection Using a Particle Filter of Hybrid State Variable. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, pp. 14-17, Feb. 2009. (Invited Paper)

19. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. Edge Linking Using Geodesic Distance and Neighborhood Information. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 151-155, July 2008. (Best Student Paper)

20. Malek Mouboub, and Zhijie Wang. Improving the Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 250-257, June 2008.

21. Malek Mouboub, and Zhijie Wang. Ant Colony with Stochastic Local Search for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, pp. 127-131, Nov. 2006.

Non-refereed Publications or Presentations

22. Clausi, D.A., Wang, Z., Leigh, S., and Li, F. (2012) Ice and open water separation using MAGIC - labelled results using novel classification process. Oral presentation in MDA/CIS/UW Joint Workshop on Operational Sea Ice Classification Canadian Ice Service, Ottawa, ON, Sept 14.

EDUCATION

1. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ph.D., Computing Science, Jan 2012

2. Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

M.Eng., Computer Science, 2005

3. Nantong Institute of Technology, Nantong, China

B.Eng., Computer Science, 2003

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

1. Doctoral Achievement Award ($21000), University of Alberta, Department of Computing

Science, 2008-2009.

2. Provost Doctoral Entrance Award ($8000), University of Alberta, Department of Computing

Science, 2006-2007.

3. Graduate Scholarship ($5000), University of Regina, Department of Computer Science,

2006.

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