Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh
PhD EE, Lic EE, Honors MSc EE, BSc EE
Toronto, ON
Canada

E-mail: ghamarneh@yahoo.com

Dr. Hamarneh's areas of expertise include
* Medical image analysis
* Imaging, image processing & analysis
* Computer vision & computer graphics
* Pattern recognition, statistical analysis
* Digital communications & digital signal processing
Dr. Hamarneh authored over 20 publications in international conferences and journals
* Deformable Organisms for Automatic Medical Image Analysis (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2001)
* Deformable Spatio-Temporal Shape Models: Extending ASM to 2D+Time (British Machine Vision 2001)
* Controlled Shape Deformations via Medial Profiles (Vision Interface 2001)
Dr. Hamarneh's participations include over 20 international workshops, symposiums, and conferences:* Variational & Level Set Methods in Computer Vision (Canada 2001)
* Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (USA 2000)
* Deformable Models (Sweden 2000)
*
Statistical Methods for Image Processing (Sweden 1999)
* Spatio-Temporal Modelling & its Applications (UK 1999)
* High Dimensional Data & Image Analysis (Sweden 1999)
* Shape Variation (Denmark 1998)
* Biomedical Imaging (France 1998)
Dr. Hamarneh reviewed for several Journals
* IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence
* IEEE Trans. Image Processing
* IAPR Pattern Recognition Letters
* ASPRS Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
Other related experience* Development (C/C++, Java, MATLAB, Fortran, Pascal) and scripting (Tcl, PERL)
* Using Linux (RedHat), Unix (IBM RS6000, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX), Windows (9x/Me/NT/2000/XP)
* 2D/3D Image processing/visualization tools and software (AVS, VTK, Amira, Maya, OpenGL, OpenInventor)
* Webpage design and development (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, HTML, XML, DHTML, Java, JavaScript)
* Image morphing, warping, and registration