Dimitris N. Metaxas,  Ph.D.

Awards -
ONR YIP, 1997
NSF Career Award, 1996
NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993

Professor - Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University.

Adjunct Professor - Computer and Information Science, UPENN.

Director - Computational Biomdicine Imaging and Modeling Center (CBIM)

Computational Biomedicine , Computer Vision , and Computer Graphics

Major Emphasis: Novel theories for segmentation methods, dynamic object tracking and recognition, statistical modeling, physics-based deformable object modeling, computer animation of fluid phenomena, control methods for animation and hepatic interaction. 

Applications:  Heart modeling and analysis,  segmentation methods for internal organs, lung, cancer and prostate cancer detection, functional anatomy, American Sign Language Recognition, 3D Dynamic and Stochastic Human Tracking, Human Activity Recognition, Modeling of clothes, smoke and water, control methods for human and other special effects animations

Dr. Metaxas has been conducting research towards the development of
formal methods upon which both computer vision, computer graphics and
medical imaging can advance synergistically. In computer vision, he
works on the simultaneous segmentation and fitting of complex objects,
shape representation, deterministic and statistical object tracking and
gesture recognition. Over the past 6 years he has been working on dymamic
data driven applications for human surveillance, security and ASL Recognition.
In the area of biomedical applications he has developed innovative methods for
material modeling and shape estimation of internal body parts (e.g.,
lungs) from MRI, SPAMM and CT data, a framework for linking the
anatomical and physiological models of the human body and deformable
models suitable for the automatic diagnosis of heart illness from MRI
data. In computer graphics, new techniques have been developed for
modeling fluid phenomena, deformable models and control theoretic and
kinematic techniques for automating and improving the animation of
articulated (e.g., humans) objects.

Dr. Metaxas has published over 180 research articles in these areas and has graduated 18 PhD students. The above research has been, and is currently being funded by NSF, NIH, ONR, AFOSR, DARPA and the ARO.

Publications

Dr. Metaxas has published a book on his research activities titled "Physics-based deformable models: Applications to computer vision,
graphics and medical imaging'' which was published by Kluwer Academic.
He organized the first IEEE Workshop on Physics-Based Modeling in
Computer Vision, he is on the Editorial Board of MedIA, as Associate
Editor of GMIP, and is a Co-Editor of and has been an editor for
several special issues in the area of physics-based modeling. Dr.
Metaxas has received five best paper awards for his work on computer
vision and medical image analysis and has several related patents.

Awards

Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1986, is a recipient of an NSF
Research Initiation and Career awards, an ONR YIP, and is a Fellow of of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, and a member
of ACM and IEEE.

Education

Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the  National Technical University of Athens Greece in 1986

M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1988

 
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada in 1992.