Fang Xu Graduate Research Fellow Visualization Lab Computer Science Department Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400 (631) 632-8427 fxu AT cs.sunysb.edu

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Research Interests

Medical imaging (project page)

• Rapid computed tomography on commodity graphics hardware (cone-beam CT, electron microscope tomography, etc.)
• Signal and imaging processing, sampling theory, grid analysis

Scientific visualization  (project page)

• General (direct) and project-based volume rendering
• High-performance computing (GPGPU)

Education
	Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (September, 2007)
	Thesis: Accelerating Computed Tomography on Graphics Hardware
	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
	Master of Science in Computer Science (May, 2004)
	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
	Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science (July, 2001)
	Xiamen University, Xiamen, P.R. China

Core Coursework Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Advanced Image Processing, Advanced Visualization, Geometric Foundations, GPGPU, Medical Imaging, Visual Analytics, etc. (some course projects)
Journal Publications
•	Feng Qiu, Fang Xu, Zhe Fan, Neophytous Neophytou, Arie Kaufman and Klaus. Mueller, “Lattice based volumetric global illumination,” IEEE Transaction on Visualization & Computer Graphics (to appear), 2007.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "Real-time 3D computed tomography reconstruction using commodity graphics hardware," Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol.52, pp. 3405-3419, 2007.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "Accelerating popular tomographic reconstruction algorithms on commodity PC graphics hardware," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 654-663, 2005.
•	Fang Xu, Boliang Wang, and Weisheng Xue, “The Development of a Network-Based Education System,” Journal of Xiamen University, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 29-33, 2001.
Conference Publications
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, “Applications of optimal sampling lattices for volume acquisition via 3D computed tomography,” IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "GPU-acceleration of attenuation and scattering effects for computed tomography," First Workshop on High Performance Image Reconstruction (in conjunction with 9th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine), Germany, July 2007.
•	Neophytous Neophytou, Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "Hardware acceleration vs. algorithmic acceleration: can GPU-based processing beat complexity optimization for CT?," SPIE Medical Imaging'07, San Diego, February 2007.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "GPU-accelerated D^2VR," International Workshop on Volume Graphics’06, Boston, August 2006.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "A comparative study of popular interpolation and integration methods for use in computed tomography," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging’06, Washington D.C., April 2006.
•	Klaus Mueller and Fang Xu, "Practical considerations for GPU-Accelerated CT," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging’06, Washington D.C., April 2006.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "RapidCT: Acceleration of 3D computed tomography on the GPU," ACM Workshop on General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors 2004 (GPGPU ’04), Los Angeles, August 2004.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "Ultra-fast 3D filtered backprojection on commodity graphics hardware," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging’04, Washington D.C., April 2004.
•	Fang Xu and Klaus Mueller, "Towards a unified framework for rapid 3D computed tomography on commodity GPUs," IEEE Medical Imaging Conference’03, Portland, OR, June 2003.
•	Jiezhen Xie, Boliang Wang, Fang Xu, Shihui Wu, "Acquiring and archiving the anterior segment image of human eye," Proceedings of Chinese Biomedical Engineering Conference (CBME’ 2001), Wuhan, P.R.China, 2001.