Selected Research Projects

1. Since 2005: Medical image analysis for computer-assisted medical diagnostics using Markov-Gibbs random field models of visual appearance and shape of goal objects - together with Dr. A. El-Baz (Director of BioImaging Lab., University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
   • EL-BAZ A., ELNAKIB A., KHALIFA F., EL-GHAR M. A., MCCLURE P., SOLIMAN A., GIMEL'FARB G. Precise segmentation of 3-D magnetic resonance angiography, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 2019 - 2029, 2012.
   • ELNAKIB A., BEACHE G. M., GIMEL'FARB G., EL-BAZ A. New automated Markov-Gibbs random field based framework for myocardial wall viability quantification on agent enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance images, The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 2012 [in print; on-line from 9 Dec 2011; 16 p., DOI: 10.1007/s10554-011-9991-2].
   • ELNAKIB A., CASANOVA M., GIMEL'FARB G., SWITALA A., EL-BAZ A. Dyslexia diagnostics by 3D shape analysis of the Corpus Callosum, IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 700 - 708, 2012.
   • KHALIFA F., EL-BAZ A., GIMEL'FARB G. Accurate automatic analysis of cardiac cine images, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol.59, no.2, pp.445 - 455, 2012.
   • EL-BAZ A., SETHU P., GIMEL'FARB G., KHALIFA F., EINAKIB A., FALK R., ABOU EL-GHAR M. Elastic phantoms generated by microfluidics technology: Validation of an imaged-based approach for accurate measurement of the growth rate of lung nodules, Biotechnology Journal, vol.6, no. 2, 195 - 203, 2011.
   • EL-BAZ A., GIMEL'FARB G. Accurate modeling of marginal signal distributions In 2D/3D images, Multi-Modality State-of-the-Art Medical Image Segmentation and Registration Techniques (A. El-Baz, R. Acharya, A.F.Laine, J.S.Suri, eds), Springer, N.Y., vol. I, pp.189 - 214, 2011.
   • EL-BAZ A., GIMEL'FARB G. Medical images segmentation using learned priors, Multi-Modality State-of-the-Art Medical Image Segmentation and Registration Techniques (A. El-Baz, R. Acharya, A.F.Laine, J.S.Suri, eds), Springer, N.Y., vol. II, pp.99 - 118, 2011.
   • EL-BAZ A., GIMEL'FARB G. Robust image registration based on learning prior appearance model, Multi-Modality State-of-the-Art Medical Image Segmentation and Registration Techniques (A. El-Baz, R. Acharya, A.F.Laine, J.S.Suri, eds), Springer, N.Y., vol. II, pp.1247 - 262, 2011.
   • EL-BAZ A., ELNAKIB A., CASANOVA M.F., GIMEL'FARB G., SWITALA A. E., JORDAN D., RAINEY S. Accurate automatic detection of autism related Corpus Callosum abnormalities, Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 929 - 939, 2011 [on-line from 2010: DOI 10.1007/s10916-010-9510-3].
   • EL-BAZ A., GIMEL'FARB G., FALK R., ABOU EL-GHAR M. Automatic analysis of 3D low dose CT Images for early diagnosis of lung cancer, Pattern Recognition, vol. 42, no. 6, 1041 - 1051, 2009
   • EL-BAZ A., CASANOVA M., GIMEL'FARB G., MOTT M., SWITALA A. An MRI-based diagnostic framework for early diagnosis of dyslexia, Int. Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 3, no. 3-4, 181 - 189, 2008.

2. Since 2011: Concurrent propagation and membrane computing for computational stereo - together with Dr. P. Delmas, Dr. R. Nicolescu, and PhD candidate R. Gong (University of Auckland)
   • GIMEL'FARB G., NICOLESCU R., RAGAVAN S. P system implementation of dynamic programming stereo, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 2012 [in print].
   • GIMEL'FARB G., GONG R., NICOLESCU R., DELMAS P. Concurrent propagation for solving ill-posed problems of global discrete optimisation Proc. 21^st IAPR Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 11 - 15, 2012 [in print].

3. 2007 - 2010: Least-squares template matching under non-uniform contrast and offset deviations and partial occlusions - together with Dr. P. Delmas, Dr. P.Riddle, and PhD candidate (now - Dr.) A. Shorin (University of Auckland)
   • SHORIN A., GIMEL'FARB G., RIDDLE P., DELMAS P. Constraint optimization for robust image matching with inhomogeneous photometric variations and affine noise, Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2010), Dec. 13 - 16, 2010, Sydney, Australia (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6474), Springer, pp.476 - 487, 2010.
   • SHORIN A., RIDDLE P., GIMEL'FARB G., DELMAS P. Robust rigid registration for image matching with arbitrary extrinsic photometric noise, Proc. 24th Int. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conf. (IVCNZ 2009), Nov. 23 - 25, 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 39 - 43, 2009.

4. Since 2008: Fusing active and passive 3D measurements for accurate 3D scene description - together with Dr. P. Delmas, PhD candidate Y.-H. Chan (University of Auckland) and Dr. R. Valkenburg (Industrial Research Ltd, Auckland).
   • CHAN Y.-H., DELMAS P., GIMEL'FARB G., VALKENBURG R. Fusing large volumes of range and image data for accurate description of realistic 3D scenes, Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2010), Dec. 13 - 16, 2010, Sydney, Australia (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6474), Springer, pp.332 - 343, 2010.
   • CHAN Y. H., DELMAS P., GIMEL'FARB G., VALKENBURG R. Accurate 3D Modelling by Fusion of Potentially Reliable Active Range and Passive Stereo Data, Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2009), Sept. 2 - 4, 2009, Muenster, Germany (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5702 / 2009), Springer, Berlin, pp.848 - 855, 2009.

5. 2008 - 2010: Intelligent FPGA-based image processor for real-time stereo registration and 3D scene reconstruction - together with Prof. J. Morris (University of Auckland).
   • MORRIS J., GIMEL'FARB G. Real-time Stereo Image Matching System. NZ Patent Application 576986, May 2, 2008. Granted on 7 December 2010.
   • JAWED Kh., MORRIS J., KHAN T., GIMEL'FARB G. Real Time Rectification for Stereo Correspondence, Proc.2009 IEEE Int. Conf. on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2009), August 29 - 31, 2009, Vancouver, Canada, Vol. 2, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 277 - 284, 2009.
   • MORRIS J., JAWED Kh., GIMEL'FARB G. Intelligent Vision: A First Step - Real Time Stereovision, Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: (ACIVS 2009), Sept.28 - Oct.2, 2009, Bordeaux, France (Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 5807 / 2009), Springer, Berlin, pp.355-366, 2009.
   • MORRIS J., JAWED Kh., GIMEL'FARB G., KHAN T. Breaking the ̉TonÓ: Achieving 1% depth accuracy from stereo in real time, Proc. 24th Int. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conf. (IVCNZ 2009), Nov. 23 - 25, 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 142 - 147, 2009.

6. 2008 - 2010: Texture description in terms of primitive geometrical objects - with Dr. X. Descombes and Dr. F. Lafarge (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France).
   • LAFARGE F., GIMEL'FARB G., DESCOMBES X. Geometric feature extraction by a multi-marked point process, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 32, no. 9, 1597 - 1609, 2010.

7. 2008 - 2011: Implicit surface active contours for 3D feature detection - together with Dr. P. Delmas and PhD candidate (now - Dr.) M. Krueger (University of Auckland).
   • KRUEGER M., DELMAS P., GIMEL'FARB G. Efficient Image Segmentation Using Weighted Pseudo-Elastica, Proc. 14th Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2011), Seville, Spain, Aug. 29 - 31, 2011, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6854), Springer, pp.59 - 67, 2011.