Nilanjan Ray received
his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from
Nilanjan is a recipient of the CIMPA-UNESCO
fellowship for image processing in 1999; the graduate fellowship at Indian
Statistical Institute from 1995 to 1997; and the best student paper award from IBM
Picture Processing Society presented at the IEEE International Conference on
Image Processing,
Nilanjan’s
research area is image analysis.
BOOKS
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Scott T. Acton and Nilanjan Ray, Biomedical image analysis: Tracking. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2006.
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Scott T. Acton and Nilanjan Ray, Biomedical image analysis: Segmentation. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2009.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
o B. Saha, N. Ray, R. Greiner, A. Murtha, H.
Zhang, “Quick detection of brain tumors and edemas: A bounding box method using
symmetry,” submitted to IEEE Transactions
on Medical Imaging. pdf.
o N. Ray, D.P. Mukherjee, S.K. Mitra, “Flow visualization from particle images using block
coordinate descent,” submitted to IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing. pdf.
o B.
Saha, N. Ray, and H. Zhang, “Snake validation: A PCA-based outlier
detection method,” accepted at IEEE
Signal Processing Letters. pdf.
o D.P. Mukherjee, I. Cheng, N. Ray, V. Mushahwar, A. Basu, “Automatic segmentation of spinal cord
MRI using symmetric boundary tracing,” submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine.
o B. Saha and N. Ray, “Image thresholding by variational minimax optimization,” accepted at Pattern Recognition. pdf
o J. Cui, N. Ray, S.T. Acton, Z. Lin, “An
affine transformation invariance approach to cell tracking,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics,
vol.32 , no.7, pp.554-565, June 2008. pdf
o N. Ray and S.T. Acton,
“Inclusion filters: a class of self-dual connected operators,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
vol. 14, no.11, pp. 1736-1746, Nov. 2005. pdf
o N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Data
acceptance for automated leukocyte tracking through segmentation of
spatiotemporal images,” IEEE Transactions
on Biomedical Engineering, vol.52, no. 10, pp.1702-1712, Oct. 2005. pdf
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G. Dong, N. Ray
and S.T. Acton, “Intravital leukocyte detection using
the gradient inverse coefficient of variation,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol.24, no.7, pp. 910-924,
July 2005. pdf
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A.K. Chattopadhyay, N.
Ray and S.T. Acton, "Universality in the merging dynamics of
parametric active contours: a study in MRI based lung segmentation," New Journal of Physics, vol. 7, pp.
148-159, 2005. pdf
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Motion gradient vector flow: An
external force for tracking rolling leukocytes with shape and size constrained
active contour,” IEEE Trans. Medical
Imaging, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1466-1478, 2004. pdf
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D.P. Mukherjee, N. Ray and S.T. Acton,
“Level set analysis for cell detection and tracking,” IEEE Trans. Image
processing, vol.13, no.4, pp.562-572, 2004. pdf
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N. Ray, S.T. Acton, T. Altes,
E.E. de Lange and J.R. Brookeman, “Merging parametric
active contours within homogeneous image regions for MRI-based lung
segmentation,” IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol.22, no. 1, pp.189-199,
2003. pdf
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N. Ray, S.T. Acton, K.F. Ley, “Tracking leukocytes in
vivo with shape and size
constrained active contours,” IEEE
Trans. Medical Imaging, special issue on Image Analysis in Drug Discovery
and Clinical Trials, vol.21, no. 10, pp. 1222-1235, 2002. pdf
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N. Ray, B. Chanda and J. Das,
“A fast and flexible multiresolution snake with a
definite termination criterion,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 34,
pp.1483-1490, 2001. pdf
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N. Ray, D.P. Mukherjee, and J. Das, “Identification of
tracer cloud: A shape based approach” Current
Science, Vol. 76, No.7, 1999, a publication from
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S. Jeyamkondan, N. Ray,
G.A. Kranzler, and N. Biju,
“Computer vision segmentation of the longissimus dorsi for beef quality grading,” Transactions of the ASAE, vol. 47, no. 4, pp.1261-1268, 2004.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
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S. Nilufar, N. Ray, H. Zhang, “Optimum kernel
function design from scale space features for object detection,” accepted at IEEE ICIP 2009. pdf.
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Z. Wang, H. Zhang, N. Ray “Tracking of
multiple interacting objects using a novel prediction model,” accepted at IEEE ICIP 2009.
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J. Shi, H. Zhang, N. Ray, “Solidity based local
threshold for oil sand image segmentation,” accepted at IEEE ICIP 2009.
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S. Zabuawala, H. Wei, C.
Raju, N. Ray, J. Yadegar, “Automated image
processing and fusion for remote sensing applications,” In the Proceedings of Computational
Imaging VII,
SPIE. vol. 7246 (724612, Feb. 2, 2009).
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N. Ray, B. Saha, and H. Zhang, “Change detection
and object segmentation: A histogram of features-based energy minimization
approach,” accepted at ICVGIP 2008. pdf
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H. Wang, N. Ray, H. Zhang, “Graph-cut
optimization of the ratio of functions and its application to image
segmentation”, accepted paper at IEEE
ICIP 2008. pdf
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N. Ray, B. Saha, S.T. Acton, “Oil sand image segmentation
using the inclusion filter”, invited
paper at IEEE ICIP 2008, special
session on connected operators. pdf
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B. Saha, N. Ray, and H. Zhang, “Computing
oil sand particle size distribution by snake-PCA algorithm,” accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2008. pdf
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S. Nilufar, N. Ray, “Automatic Blood Cell
Classification by Joint Histogram Based Feature and Bhattacharya Kernel,” invited paper at IEEE Asilomar
conference on Signals, Systems and Computers to the special session on
Image Analysis for Biomedical Applications.
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N. Ray and B. Saha, “Edge sensitive variational
image thresholding,” accepted at IEEE ICIP, 2007.
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N. Ray, B. Saha, and M. Brown, “Locating brain tumor from
MR imagery using symmetry,” accepted at Asilomar
conf. on signals, systems, and computers, 2007.
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N. Ray and D.P. Mukherjee, “Image registration and object
tracking via affine combination,” Proc. 6th
Int. Conf. on Advances in Pattern Recognition, pp.175-179, January, 2007.
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S. Sahoo, N. Ray and
S.T. Acton, “Rolling leukocyte detection based on teardrop shape and the
gradient inverse coefficient of variation,” International
Conference on Medical Information Visualisation - BioMedical Visualisation 2006.
MediVis 2006, pp. 29-33, 5-7 July 2006.
o J. Cui, N. Ray, S.T. Acton, and Z. Lin,
“Application of the affine transform invariant model to cell tracking,” IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis
and Interpretation, pp.56-60, March 2006.
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N. Ray, G. Dong, S.T. Acton, “Tracking multiple cells by
correspondence resolution in a sequential Bayesian framework,” Proceedings of IEEE ICIP, vol.1,
pp.705-708,
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Spatiotemporal segmentation for
validation of rolling leukocyte tracking data,” Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP,
vol.2, pp. 129-132,
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R. Janiczek, N. Ray,
F. Epstein, S.T. Acton, “A markov chain monte carlo method for tracking
myocardial borders,” invited paper at IS&T/SPIE’s
17th annual symposium on electronic imaging science and technology,
January 16-20, 2005.
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G. Dong, N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Automated
leukocyte detection in vivo,” Proceedings of 38th
Asilomar conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, vol.2, pp.1832-1837,
Pacific Groove, CA, Nov
7-Nov.10, 2004.
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S.T. Acton and N. Ray, “Detection and
tracking of rolling leukocytes from intravital
microscopy,” invited paper in 2004 IEEE
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano
to Macro,
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Tracking rolling leukocytes with
motion gradient vector flow”, accepted in Asilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems, and Computers,
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Self-dual inclusion filters for
grayscale imagery,” Proceedings of IEEE
ICIP, vol.1, pp. 321-324, Barcelona,
Spain, September 14-17, 2003.
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Tracking fast-rolling leukocytes in vivo with active contours,” Proceedings of IEEE ICIP 2002, vol.3, pp.165-168. Won best student paper award from IBM
SP society.
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Active contours for cell
tracking,” In the Proceedings of Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and
Interpretation, sponsored by the IEEE computer society and IEEE Signal
Processing Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 7-9, 2002.
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J. Tang, G. Dong, N. Ray, S.T. Acton,
“Evaluation of Intravital Tracking Algorithms,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on
Circuits and Systems,
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Adaptive image processing via snake
filters,” In the proceedings of 35th Asilomar conference on
Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific
Groove, CA, Nov 4-Nov.7, 2001.
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N. Ray, J. Havlicek, S.T. Acton
and M. Pattichis, “Active contour segmentation guided
by AM-FM dominant component analysis,” Proceedings
of IEEE ICIP 2001, pp.78-81.
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N. Ray, S.T. Acton, T. Altes,
E.E. de Lange “MRI ventilation analysis by merging parametric active contours,”
Proceedings of IEEE ICIP 2001,
pp.861-864.
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N. Ray and S.T. Acton, “Image segmentation by curve
evolution with clustering,” In the proceedings of 34th Asilomar
conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Groove, CA, pp.495-498, Oct 29-Nov.1, 2000.
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S. Jeyamkondan, N. Ray, G.A. Kranzler,
and B. Nisha, "Beef quality grading using
machine vision," In the Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4203, pp.91-101, 2000.
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S. Jeyamkondan, N. Ray, G.A. Kranzler,
and J. Nelson,"Adaptive segmentation of longissimus dorsi using fuzzy
c-means and convex hull," Presented at the Oklahoma section of the
American Society of Agricultural Engineering meeting, 27 October 2000.
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Chanda, N. Ray, P.
Pal and J. Das, "A 3-D Erosion Model for Image Processing with Special
Reference to Cloud IR Image," in The 4th International Conference on
Advances in Pattern Recognition and Digital Techniques, December 27-29, 1999,
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.