Program co-chair, Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics
2002
Local organization chair, Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2005
Program committee, Eurographics/IEEE TCVG Visualization Symposium
2004, 2006, Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2004, 2005, Symposium on
Volume Visualization and Graphics 2004, IEEE Visualization 2004, 2005,
Volume Graphics 2006
Professional Societies
IEEE senior member (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
Computer Society)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Books and Book Chapters
K. Mueller and A. Kaufman, "Volume Visualization in Medicine," Handbook of Medical Imaging, I.
Bankman, editor, Elsevier, 2008.
A. Kaufman and K. Mueller, “Overview of Volume Rendering”, The Visualization Handbook, C.
Johnson and C. Hansen, editors, Academic Press, 2004.
A. Kaufman and K. Mueller, “Volume Visualization”, The Computer Science and Engineering
Handbook 2nd edition, A. Tucker, editor, CRC Press, 2004.
Volume Graphics 2005 (co-edited with Eduard Gröller, Issei
Fujishiro, and Thomas Ertl), VGTC IEEE and EG Press
Volume Graphics 2003 (co-edited with Issei Fujishiro and Ari
Kaufman), ACM Press
Volume Graphics 2001 (co-edited with Ari Kaufman), Springer
Verlag
Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2002 (co-edited
with Chris Johnson), ACM Press
Tutorials at Conferences
SPIE Medical Imaging 2010,
San Diego, FL
MIC-GPU: High-Performance Computing for Medical Imaging on
Programmable Graphics Hardware (GPU) (with F. Xu. W. Xu, Z. Zheng)
IEEE Medical Imaging 2009
Programming and Medical Applications Using Graphics Hardware
(with A. Sitek, M. Kachelriess)
SPIE Medical Imaging 2009,
Orlando, FL
MIC-GPU: High-Performance Computing for Medical Imaging on
Programmable Graphics Hardware (GPU) (with F. Xu. W. Xu, Z. Zheng)
IEEE Visualization 2008,
Columbus, OH
Perception-Driven Techniques for Effective Visualization of
Large Volume Data (with C. Wang, H.-W. Shen, H. Qu)
Interactive Lattice-Based Flow Simulation and Visualization
(witth Y. Zhao, A. Kaufman, N. Thuerey, U. Rüde)
SPIE Medical Imaging 2008,
San Diego, CA
MIC-GPU: High-Performance Computing for Medical Imaging on
Programmable Graphics Hardware (GPU)
IEEE Visualization 2007,
Sacramento, CA
Visual Medicine - Techniques, Applications, and Software (with
D. Bartz, B. Preim, F. Ritter, K. Zuiderfeld)
SPIE Medical Imaging 2007,
San Diego, CA
MIC-GPU: High-Performance Computing for Medical Imaging on
Programmable Graphics Hardware (GPU) (with F. Xu and N. Neophytou)
IEEE Visualization 2006,
Baltimore, MD
Visual Medicine - Techniques, Applications, and Software (with
D. Bartz, G. Kindlmann, B. Preim, S. Oeltze, and F. Link,)
IEEE Visualization 2005,
Minneapolis, MN
Visual Medicine Part 1 – Medical Imaging Techniques (with D.
Bartz and G. Kindlmann)
Visual Medicine Part 2 – Advanced Applications of Medical
Imaging (with D. Bartz, G. Kindlmann, B. Preim, and M. Wacker).
Point Lattices in Computer Graphics and Visualization (with T.
Möller, R. Entezari, J. Morey, V. Ostromoukhov, and D. Van De
Ville)
IEEE Visualization 2004,
Austin, TX
Advanced virtual medicine: techniques and applications for
medicine-oriented visualization (with D. Bartz, M. Wacker, Y. Wu and J.
Hardenbergh)
Eurographics 2004,
Grenoble, France
Advanced Virtual Medicine: Techniques and Applications for
Medicine-Oriented Computer Graphics (with D. Bartz, M. Hauth, A.
Linney,
H. Delingette, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, and Y. Wu)
IEEE Visualization 2003,
Seattle, WA
Advanced virtual medicine: techniques and applications for
virtual endoscopy and soft-tissue-simulation (with D. Bartz and M.
Hauth)
MICCAI 2003, Montreal,
Canada
Advanced virtual medicine: techniques and applications for
virtual endoscopy and soft-tissue-simulation (with D. Bartz and M.
Hauth)
IEEE Visualization 2002,
Boston, MA
State of the Art in Data Representation in Visualization, (with
B. Chen, A. Varshney, and A. Kaufman)
C. Men, X. Gu, D. Choi, A. Majundar. Z. Zheng, K. Mueller, S. Jiang, "GPU-based
ultrafast IMRT plan optimization," Physics
in Medicine and Biology, 54:6565-6573, 2009.
F. Xu, W. Xu, M. Jones,
B. Keszthelyi, J. Sedat, D. Agard, K.
Mueller, "On the Efficiency of Iterative Ordered Subset
Reconstruction Algorithms for Acceleration on GPUs," Computer Methods and Programs in
Biomedicine, (to appear), 2009.
S. Grag, T. Berg, K. Mueller,
"Iconizer: A Framework to Identify and Create Effective Representations
for Visual Information Encoding," (poster) IEEE Visualization Conference,
2009,
Q. Dinh, N. Neophytou, K. Mueller, "Continuous FVR of Irregularly
Sampled Data Using Gaussian RBFs," (poster) IEEE Visualization Conference, 2009.
F. Xu and K. Mueller,
"Optimal Sampling Lattices for High-Fidelity CT Reconstruction," IEEE Medical Imaging Comference,
Orlando, October, 2009
K. Petkov, F. Qiu, Z. Fan, A. Kaufman, K. Mueller, "Efficient LBM Visual
Simulation on Face-Centered Cubic Lattices," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, 15(5): 802-814, 2009.
J. Giesen, K. Mueller,
B. Taneva, P. Zolliker, "Choice Based Conjoint Analysis:
Classification/Regression vs. Discrete Choice Models," (to appear), Springer, 2009.
W. Xu, K. Mueller,
"Learning Effective Parameter Settings for Iterative CT Reconstruction
Algorithms," Fully 3D Image
Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Beijing,
China,
September, 2009.
W. Xu, K. Mueller, "A
Performance-Driven Study of Regularization Methods for GPU-Accelerated
Iterative CT," Workshop on High
Performance Image Reconstruction (Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in
Radiology and Nuclear Medicine), Beijing, China, September,
2009.
(won Best Paper Award)
J. Nam, M. Maurer, K. Mueller,
"A High-Dimensional Feature Clustering Approach to Support
Knowledge-Assisted Visualization, (to appear) Computers & Graphics, 2009.
W. Xu, K. Mueller,
"Accelerating Regularized Iterative CT Reconstruction on Commodity
Graphics Hardware (GPU)," (invited paper), IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical
Imaging (ISBI), Boston, MA, July, 2009.
S. Bruckner, E. Groeller, K.
Mueller, B. Preim, D. Silver, "Illustrative Focus+Context
Approaches in Interactive Volume Visualization," Proc. Dagstuhl Workshop on Scientific
Visualization: Challenges for the Future, 2009.
F. Qiu, B. Zhang, K. Petkov, L. Chong, A. Kaufman, K. Mueller, X. Gu, "The immersive
cabin," International Symposium on
Visual Computing (ISVC), (in Springer Lecture Notes In Computer
Science; Vol. 5358), pp. 891-900, Las Vegas, NV, December 2008.
B. Taneva, J. Giesen, P. Zolliker and K. Mueller, "Choice Based Conjoint
Analysis: Discrete Choice Models vs. Direct Regression,", 1st ECML/PKDD-Workshop on Preference
Learning (PL), 2008.
N. Volkow, Y. Ma, W. Zhu, J. Fowler, J. Li, M. Rao, K. Mueller, K, Pradhan, C. Wong,
G.-J. Wang, "Moderate Doses of Alcohol Disrupt the Functional
Organization of the Human Brain," Psychiatric
Research Neuroimaging, 162(3):205-213, 2008.
A. Kaufman and K. Mueller,
"CTC Visualization: Past, Current, and Future," (invited talk), MICCAI (Workshop on Computational and
Visualization Challenges in Virtual Colonoscopy), New York,
September 2008.
J. Nam, M. Maurer, and K.
Mueller, "High-Dimensional Feature Descriptors to Characterize
Volumetric Data, "2nd Workshop on
Knowledge-Assisted Visualization (KAV), Columbus, OH, October,
2008.
F. Xu, K. Mueller, M.
Jones, B. Keszthelyi, J. Sedat, D. Agard, "On the Efficiency of
Iterative Ordered Subset Reconstruction Algorithms for Acceleration on
GPUs," MICCAI (Workshop on
High-Performance Medical Image Computing & Computer Aided
Intervention), New York, September 2008.
L. Wang, K. Mueller,
"Harmonic Colormaps for Volume Visualization," Volume Graphics Symposium, pp.
33-40, Los Angeles, August, 2008.
L. Wang, J. Giesen, K. McDonnell, P. Zolliker, K. Mueller, "Color Design for
Illustrative Visualization," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, (Special issue IEEE Visualization Conference), 14(6):1739-1754,
2008.
S. Garg, E. Nam, IV. Ramakrishnan, K. Mueller, "Model-Driven Visual
Analytics," IEEE
Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST '08), pp. 19-26, 2008.
A. Zelenyuk, D. Imre, E. Nam, Y. Han, K. Mueller, "ClusterSculptor:
Software for Expert-Steered Classification of Single Particle Mass
Spectra," International Journal of
Mass Spectrometry, 275(1-3):1-10, 2008.
S. Li, K. Mueller, M.
Jackowski, D. Dione, L. Staib, "Physical-Space Refraction-Corrected
Transmission Ultrasound Computed Tomography Made Computationally
Practical," MICCAI, (in
Springer Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5242), pp. 280-288,
New
York, September 2008.
K. McDonnell and K. Mueller,
"Illustrative Parallel Coordinates,"
Computer Graphics Forum (Special Issue Eurovis 2008), vol.
27(3):1031-1038, 2008.
N. Neophytou and K,
Mueller, "Color-Space CAD: Direct Gamut Editing in 3D," IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications,
28(3):88-98, 2008.
E. Nam, M. Maurer, and K.
Mueller, "Semantic Visualization Facilitated By Cluster
Analysis,", 1st Workshop on
Knowledge-Assisted Visualization, Sacramento, CA, October, 2007.
F. Xu and K. Mueller,
"Applications of optimal sampling lattices for volume acquisition via
3D
computed tomography," Volume
Graphics
Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 57-63, September 2007.
E. Nam, Y. Han, K. Mueller,
A. Zelenyuk, and D. Imre, "ClusterSculptor: A Visual Analytics tool for
high-dimensional data," IEEE
Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2007 (VAST '07),pp.
75-82, November, 2007.
F. Qiu, F. Xu, Z. Fan, N. Neophytou, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller, "Lattice-based
volumetric global illumination," IEEE Transactions on Visualization
and Computer Graphics, (Special issue IEEE Visualization Conference), 13(6):1576-1583,
2007.
J. Giesen, K. Mueller,
E. Schuberth, L. Wang, and P. Zolliker, "Conjoint analysis to measure
the perceived quality in volume rendering," IEEE Transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics, (Special issue IEEE Visualization
Conference), 13(6): 1664-1671, 2007.
F. Xu and K. Mueller,
"GPU-Acceleration of Attenuation and Scattering Compensation in
Emission
Computed Tomography," First Workshop
on High Performance Image Reconstruction (Fully 3D Image Reconstruction
in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine), pp. 29-32, Lindau, Germany,
July 2007.
F. Xu and K. Mueller,
"Real-Time 3D Computed Tomographic Reconstruction Using Commodity
Graphics Hardware," Physics in
Medicine and Biology, vol. 52, pp. 3405–3419, 2007.
K. McDonnell, N. Neophytou, K.
Mueller and H. Qin, "Subdivision Splatting," Eurographics/ IEEE-VGTC Symposium on
Visualization (Eurovis) '07, pp. 139-146, Norrkoeping, Sweden,
June 2007.
N. Neophytou, F. Xu, and K.
Mueller, " Hardware acceleration vs. algorithmic acceleration:
Can GPU-based processing beat complexity optimization for CT?," SPIE Medical Imaging '07, San
Diego, February 2007.
K. Mueller, F. Xu, and N.
Neophytou, "Why do GPUs work so well for acceleration of CT?," SPIE Electronic Imaging '07 (Keynote, Computational Imaging V),
64980N, San Jose, January 2007.
Y. Zhao, Y. Han, Z. Fan, F. Qiu, Y.-C. Kuo, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller, "Visual simulation of
heat shimmering and mirage," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 179-189, 2007.
H.Wong, H. Qu, U. Wong, Z. Tang, and K. Mueller, "A perceptual framework
for comparisons of direct volume rendered images," IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image
and Video Technology (PSIVT'06), Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2006
(also in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Image
and Video Technology, vol 4319, pp. 1314-1323, 2006)
A. Zelenyuk, D. Imre, Y. Cai, K.
Mueller, Y. Han, and P. Imrich, "SpectraMiner, an Interactive
Data Mining and Visualization Software for Single Particle Mass
Spectroscopy: A Laboratory Test Case,"
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, no. 258, pp. 58-73,
2006.
S. Brennan, K. Mueller,
G. Zelinsky, IV Ramakrishnan, D. Warren, and A. Kaufman, "Toward a
Multi-Analyst, Collaborative Framework for Visual Analytics,"IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science
and Technology 2006,
pp.
129-136, Baltimore, MD, October, 2006.
S. Li, Z. Fan, X. Yin, K.
Mueller, A. Kaufman, and X. Gu, "Geometry Field for Accurate
Real-time Reflection," Eurographics
2006, (short paper), pp. 29-32, Vienna, Austria, September,
2006.
W. Leung, N. Neophytou, and K.
Mueller, "SIMD-aware raycasting," Volume Graphics 2006, pp. 59-62,
Boston, MA, August 2006.
N. Shareef, T.-Y. Lee, H.-W. Shen, and K. Mueller, "An Image-based
Modelling Approach To GPU-based Rendering of Unstructured Grids," Volume Graphics 2006, pp. 31-38,
Boston, MA, August 2006.
X. Guan, S. Lai, J. Lackey, J. Shi, U. Techavipoo, K. Mueller, A. Flanders, D. Andrews, "MediCAD: An
Integrated Visualization System for DTI and fMRI Fusion with Anatomical
MRI for Presurgical Planning," 14th Scientific Meeting of the
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM '06), Seattle, WA, May, 2006.
F. Xu and K. Mueller,
"GPU-Accelerated D2VR," Volume
Graphics 2006, pp. 23-30, Boston, MA, August 2006.
Y. Zhao, L. Wang, F. Qiu, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller, "Melting and Flowing in
Multiphase Environment," Computers
& Graphics, vol. 30, no. 4, pp 519-528, 2006.
N . Neophytou and K. Mueller,
"Color space CAD," SIGGRAPH '06,
Sketches, Boston, August 2006.
N . Neophytou, K. Mueller,
K. McDonnell, W. Hong, X. Guan, H. Qin, and A. Kaufman, "GPU-accelerated volume splatting with
elliptical RBFs," Joint
Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2006 (EuroVis'06), pp. 13-20, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2006
W. Hong, N. Neophytou, K.
Mueller and A. Kaufman, "Constructing 3D elliptical Gaussians
for
irregular data," Mathematical
Foundations of Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, and Massive
Data Exploration, Torsten Möller (Ed.), Springer 2006 .
F. Xu and K. Mueller, "A
comparative study of popular interpolation and integration methods for
use in computed tomography," IEEE
2006
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '06), pp.
1252-1255, Arlington, VA, April 6-9, 2006.
K. Mueller and F. Xu,
"Practical considerations for GPU-accelerated CT, " IEEE 2006 International Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '06), pp. 1184-1187, Arlington, VA,
April 6-9, 2006.
S. Li, K. Mueller, M. Jackowski, D. Dione,
L. Staib, "Fast Marching Method to correct for refraction in ultrasound
computed tomography," IEEE 2006
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '06), pp.
896-899, Arlington, VA, April 6-9, 2006.
L. Wang, Y. Zhao, K. Mueller,
and A. Kaufman, "The magic volume lens: An interactive focus+context
technique for volume rendering," IEEE
Visualization 2005, pp. 367-374, Minneapolis, October 2005.
L. Wang, X. Gu, K. Mueller,
and S.-T. Yau, "Uniform texture synthesis and texture mapping using
global parameterization," Pacific
Graphics 2005 (also in special issue of The Visual Computer),
pp.
801-810, Macao, China, October 2005.
S. Pamudurthy, E Guan, K.
Mueller, and M. Rafailovich, “Dynamic Approach for Face
Recognition using Digital Image Skin Correlation,” Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person
Authentication (AVBPA) 2005, pp. 1010-1018, New York, July 2005.
K. Mueller, S. Lakare, and A. Kaufman, "Volume exploration
made easy using feature maps," in: G. Nielson, G.-P. Bonneau and T.
Ertl, eds., Scientific
Visualization:
Extracting Information and Knowledge from Scientific Data Sets,
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
F. Xu and K. Mueller,
"Accelerating popular tomographic reconstruction algorithms on
commodity
PC graphics hardware," IEEE
Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 654-663,
2005.
M. Steinberg, K. Mueller,
and R. Kelly, "Engine room: A comparitive environment of volume
rendering engines," Computer Graphics
International, poster session, June 2005.
S. Li and K. Mueller,
"Spline-based gradient filters for high-quality refraction computations
in discrete datasets," Eurographics
/
IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization, pp. 217-222, June 2005.
S. Li and K. Mueller, "Accelerated, high-quality refraction
computations for volume graphics,"Volume
Graphics 2005, pp. 73-81, June 2005.
N. Neophytou and K. Mueller,
"GPU accelerated image aligned
splatting, " Volume Graphics 2005, pp. 197-205, June
2005.
R. Su, A. Pandit, L.
Zhu, W. Weng, K. Mueller, "A
case study: Web-based informatics system for mouse knockout
production,"
ISMB: Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computational
Biology, (to be presented), June, 2005.
L. Wang and K. Mueller,
“Enhancing volumetric datasets with sub-resolution detail using texture
synthesis,” IEEE Visualization ’04, pp. 75-82, Austin, October
2004.
F. Qiu, Y. Zhao, Z. Fan, X. Wei, H.
Lorenz, J. Wang, S. Yoakum-Stover, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller,
“Accelerated dispersion simulation for urban security,” IEEE
Visualization ’04, pp. 553-560, Austin, October 2004.
A. Li and K. Mueller,
“Methods for efficient, high quality volume resampling in the frequency
domain,” IEEE Visualization ’04,
pp. 3-10, Austin, October 2004.
H. Qu, R. Shao, N. Zhang, A.
Kaufman, and K. Mueller,
"Feature preserving distance fields," Symposium
on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2004, pp. 39-46, Austin,
October 2004.
I. Bitter, N. Neophytou, K.
Mueller, and A. Kaufman, “Squeeze: Numerical-precision-optimized
volume rendering," Graphics Hardware Workshop 2004, pp. 25-34,
Grenoble, France, August 2004.
F. Xu and K. 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.
X. Guan and K. Mueller,
“Point-based surface rendering with motion blur,” Symposium on
Point-Based Graphics, pp. 33-40, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2004.
R.
Schulte, V. Bashkirov, T. Li, Z. Liang, K. Mueller, et
al., "Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system for
applications in proton radiation therapy," IEEE Transactions on
Nuclear Science, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 866-872, 2004.
X. Wei, W. Li, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman, "The
Lattice-Boltzmann method for gaseous phenomena," IEEE Transactions
on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp.
164-176,
2004.
F. Xu and K. Mueller, "Ultra-fast filtered
backprojection on commodity graphics hardware", 2004 IEEE International Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, April 2004.
F. Xu and K. Mueller, "Towards a Unified
Framework for Rapid Computed Tomography on Commodity GPUs", IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003,
Portland, OR, October 2003.
K.
Mueller, Z. Liang, T. Li, F. Xu, et al., "Reconstruction for
Proton Computed Tomography: A Practical Approach," IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003,Portland,
OR, October 2003.
R. Schulte, V. Bashkirov, T. Li, J.
Liang, K. Mueller, et al.,
"Design of a Proton Computed Tomography System for Applications in
Proton Radiation Therapy," IEEE
Medical
Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003, Portland, OR, October 2003.
T. Li, Z. Liang, K. Mueller, et al., "Reconstruction
for Proton Computed Tomography: A Monte Carlo Study," IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2003,Portland,
OR, October 2003.
P. Imrich, K. Mueller, D. Imre, A. Zelenyuk, W. Zhu,
“Interactive Poster: 3D ThemeRiver”, IEEE Information Visualization
Symposium ‘03, October 2003.
K. Sidhu, E. Ford. S. Spirou, E. Yorke, J. Chang, K. Mueller, D. Todor, K.
Rosenzweig, G. Mageras, C.Chui, C. Ling, H. Amols. "Optimization of
conformal thoracic radiotherapy using cone-beam CT imaging for
treatment
verification," International Journal
of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, vol. 55, no. 3, pp.
757-67, 2003.
P. Imrich, K. Mueller, D. Imre, A. Zelenyuk, W. Zhu,
“Interactive Poster: A hardware-accelerated rubbersheet focus+context
technique for radial dendrograms”, IEEE Information Visualization
Symposium ‘03, October 2003.
T. Welsh and K. Mueller, "A frequency-sensitive point
hierarchy for images and volumes," IEEE Visualization '03, pp.
425-432, October 2003.
W. Li, K. Mueller, and A. Kaufman, "Empty-space skipping
and occlusion clipping for texture-based volume rendering," IEEE
Visualization '03, pp. 317-325, October 2003.
A. Gosh, P. Prabhu, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller,
"Hardware-assisted multi-channel volume rendering," Computer
Graphics International '03, pp. 2-7, July 2003.
V. Srivastava, U. Chebrolu, and K. Mueller, "Interactive
transfer function modification for volume rendering using compressed
sample runs," Computer Graphics International '03, pp. 8-13,
July 2003.
H. Varadhan and K. Mueller, "Volume ablation rendering," Volume
Graphics Workshop '03, pp. 53-60, July 2003.
N. Neophytou and K. Mueller, "Post-convolved splatting," Joint
Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization '03, pp.
223-230, May 2003.
E. Ford, J. Chang, K. Mueller, K. Sidhu, D. Todor, G.
Mageras, E. Yorke, C. Ling, H. Amols, "Cone-beam CT with megavoltage
beams and an amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device:
potential for verification of radiotherapy of lung cancer," Medical
Physics, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 2913-2924, 2002.
N. Volkow, W. Zhu, C. Felder, K. Mueller, T. Welsh,
G.-J.
Wang, and M. de Leon, "Changes in brain-functional homogeneity in
subjects with Alzheimer's disease,"Journal of Psychiatry Research:
Neuroimaging, vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 39-50, 2002.
P. Imrich, K. Mueller, D. Imre, A. Zelenyuk, and W. Zhu,
"Interactive poster: Visual datamining with the interactive dendogram,"IEEE
Information Visualization Symposium '02, Poster Session, October
2002.
N. Neophytou and K. Mueller, "Space-time points: 4D
Splatting on effcient grids," Symposium on Volume Visualization and
Graphics '02, pp. 97-106, 2002.
V. Srivastava, U. Chebrolu, and K.
Mueller, "Interactive
transfer function modification for volume rendering usingpre-shaded sample runs," Pacific
Graphics'02, pp. 489-490., 2002.
X. Wei, W. Li, K . Mueller, and A. Kaufman, "Simulating
fire with texture splats," IEEE Visualization'02, pp. 227-234, 2002.
T. Welsh, M. Ashikhmin, and K. Mueller, "Transferring
color to greyscale images," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of
SIGGRAPH'02), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 277-280, 2002.
J. Sweeney and K. Mueller, "Shear-Warp Deluxe: The
Shear-Warp algorithm revisited," Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG
Symposium on Visualization 2002, pp. 95-104, May 2002.
T. Welsh, K. Mueller, W. Zhu, N. Volkow, J. Meade,
"Graphical Strategies to Convey Functional Relationships in the Human
Brain: A Case Study", Visualization '01, pp. 481-485, San
Diego,
October 2001.
M. Nulkar and K. Mueller, "Splatting with shadows," International
Workshop on Volume Graphics '01, Stony Brook, June 2001.
K. Mueller, T. Welsh, W. Zhu, J. Meade, N. Volkow,
"BrainMiner: A Visualization Tool for ROI-Based Discovery of Functional
Relationships in the Human Brain," New Paradigms in Information
Visualization and Manipulation (NPIVM) 2000, Washington DC,
November, 2000.
J. Huang, N. Shareef, R. Crawfis, P. Sadayappan, K. Mueller,
"A Parallel Splatting Algorithm with Occlusion Culling", 3rd
Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization,
Girona
(Spain), September 2000.
K. Mueller and R. Yagel, "Rapid 3D cone-beam
reconstruction with the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) by
using texture mapping hardware," vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1227-1237, IEEE
Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2000. (Appeared also in Yearbook
of Medical Informatics 2002, Schattauer Verlag)
M. Meissner, J. Huang, D. Bartz, K. Mueller, R. Crawfis,
"A practical comparison of popular volume rendering algorithms," 2000
Symposium on Volume Rendering, pp. 81-90, Salt-Lake City, October
2000.
F. Dachille, K. Mueller, Ari Kaufman, "Volumetric
backprojection," pp. 109-117, 2000 Symposium on Volume Rendering,
Salt-Lake City, October 2000.
J. Huang, K. Mueller, N. Shareef, R. Crawfis,
"FastSplats: Optimized Splatting on rectilinear grids," Visualization
2000, pp. 219-227, Salt-Lake City, October 2000.
K. Mueller, J. Chang, H. Amols, C.C. Ling, "Cone-beam
computed tomography (CT) for a Megavoltage Linear Accelerator (LINAC)
using an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) and the Algebraic
Reconstruction Technique (ART)," Proceedings EMBS'2000 (The
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society), Chicago, July 2000.
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J. Wheller, "Anti-aliased 3D
cone-beam reconstruction of low-contrast objects with algebraic
methods," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 18, no. 6,
pp. 519-537, 1999.
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J. Wheller, "Fast
implementations of algebraic methods for the 3D reconstruction from
cone-beam data," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 18,
no. 6, pp. 538-547, 1999.
K. Mueller, N. Shareef, J. Huang, and R. Crawfis,
"High-quality splatting on rectilinear grids with efficient culling of
occluded voxels,"IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
Graphics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 116-134, 1999.
R. Seidler, K. Mueller, W.R. Kraft, T. Nakajama, and R.
Hamlin, "Influence of Sotanol on the time constant of isovolumetric
ventricular relaxation in anesthesized dogs," The American Journal
of Veterinary Research, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 717-721, 1999.
J. Huang, K. Mueller, N. Shareef, and R. Crawfis,
"VOXBLT: an efficient and high-quality splat primitive," Late
Breaking Hot Topics of Visualization'99, October 1999.
K. Mueller, N. Shareef, J. Huang, and R. Crawfis,
"IBR-assisted volume rendering," Late Breaking Hot Topics of
Visualization'99, October 1999. (won Best Hot Topic award)
K. Mueller, T. Moeller, and R. Crawfis, "Splatting
without the blur," Proceedings Visualization'99, pp.
363-371, 1999.
K. Mueller and R. Yagel, "On the use of graphics
hardware
to accelerate algebraic reconstruction methods,"Proceedings 1999
SPIE
Medical Imaging Conference, No. 3659-62, February 1999
K. Mueller, T. Moeller, J.E. Swan, R. Crawfis, N.
Shareef, and R. Yagel, "Splatting errors and antialiasing, " IEEE
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 4, no. 2,
pp. 178-191, 1998.(won Naval Notable Achievement Award)
K. Mueller and R. Yagel, "Rapid 3D cone-beam
reconstruction with ART utilizing texture mapping graphics hardware," Proceedings
IEEE Medical Imaging Conference 1998.
K. Mueller and R. Crawfis, "Eliminating Popping
Artifacts
in Sheet Buffer-Based Splatting," Proceedings Visualization'98,
pp. 239-245, 1998.
T. Moeller, K. Mueller, Y. Kurzion, R. Machiraju, and R.
Yagel, "Design of accurate and smooth filters for function and
derivative reconstruction"Proceedings 1998 Symposium on Volume
Visualization, pp. 143-151, 1998.
S. Bedi, K. Mueller, M. A. Al-Shyoukh, B. Gopakumaran,
and J. Jagadeesh, "Visualization of excitation wave propagation in
cardiac cycles," Proceedings 1998 Summer Computer Simulation
Conference.
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.J. Wheller " A fast and
accurate projection algorithm for the Algebraic Reconstruction
Technique
(ART)," Proceedings 1998 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Vol. SPIE
3336, pp. 24-732, 1998. (won Honorary Mention Award.
T. Moeller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller, and R. Yagel,
"Evaluation and Design of Filters Using a Taylor Series Expansion,"IEEE
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 3, no. 2,
pp. 184-199, 1997.
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.F. Cornhill, "The weighted
distance scheme: a globally optimizing projection ordering method for
the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART),"IEEE Transactions on
Medical Imaging, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 223-230, April 1997.
T. Moeller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller, and R. Yagel, " A
comparison of normal estimation schemes,"Proceedings Visualization'97,
pp. 19-26, 1997.
J.E. Swan, K. Mueller, T. Moeller, N. Shareef, R.
Crawfis, and R. Yagel, "An anti-aliasing technique for splatting,"
Proceedings Visualization'97, pp. 197-204, 1997. (Won Best Paper
Award)
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.J. Wheller, "A comparison of
the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) and Simultaneous ART
(SART)
for the 3D reconstruction from cone beam data," 1997 World Congress
on
Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Nice, France.
K. Powell, N. Obuchowski, K. Mueller, C. Hwang, J.
Hirsch, S. Nissen, and J.F. Cornhill, "Quantitative detection and
classification of single-leg fractures in the outlet struts of
Bjork-Shiley convexo-concave heart valves," Circulation, Vol.
94,
No. 12, pp. 3251-3265, 1996.
K. Mueller, E.L. LaPresto, K.A. Powell, J.L. Hirsch, and
J.F. Cornhill, "A medical workstation for the display and analysis of
multi-frame digital cineradiographic data," Computers in Biology
and
Medicine, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 385-400, 1996.
K. Mueller and R. Yagel, "Fast perspective volume
rendering with splatting by using a ray-driven approach," Proceedings
Visualization'96, pp. 65-72, 1996.
T. Moeller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller,and Roni
Yagel, "Classification and local error estimation of interpolation and
derivative filters for volume rendering," Proceedings 1996
Symposium
on Volume Visualization,pp. 71-78, 1996.
K. Mueller and R. Yagel, "The use of dodecahedral grids
to improve the efficiency of the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique
(ART)," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Special issue, 1996
Annual
Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society, p. S-66, 1996.
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.F. Cornhill, "Accelerating
the anti-aliased Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) by
table-based
voxel backward projection," Proceedings EMBS'95 (The Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology
Society), pp. 579-580, 1995.
K. Mueller, E.E. Herderick, and J.F. Cornhill,
"Classification of multi-planar images using Bayes decision theory," Annals
of Biomedical Engineering, Special issue, 1995 Annual Conference of the
Biomedical Engineering Society, p. S-67, 1995.
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, and J.F. Cornhill, "Improving the
accuracy of the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) by efficient
pixel supersampling", Radiology, Special Issue, RSNA'95, vol.
197,
p. 325, 1995.
K. Mueller, E.L. LaPresto, K.A. Powell, J.L. Hirsch, and
J.F. Cornhill, "An efficient graphical user interface for display and
analysis of multi-frame digital cineangiographic data," 1995
Computer Assisted Radiology, Berlin, Germany.
K. Mueller, R. Yagel, K.A. Powell, and J.F. Cornhill, "A
fast and accurate implementation of the Algebraic Reconstruction
Technique (ART),"1994 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical
Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
K.A. Powell, S.N. Ganobcik, E.E. Herderick, K. Mueller,
J.G. Chandler, S.N. Nissen, and J.F. Cornhill, "Quantitative detection
and classification of single-leg separations in the outlet struts of
Björk-Shiley convexo-concave heart valves," 1994 World Congress
on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
K.A. Powell, J.F. Cornhill, S.N. Nissen, J.G. Chandler, A.H.
Abolfathi, E.L. LaPresto, E.E. Herderick, K. Mueller, E.
Cesmeli, and S. Chandra, "Digital radiographic analysis of single-leg
separations (SLS) in the outlet struts of Bjork-Shiley convexo-concave
valves," 1993 Computer Assisted Radiology, Berlin, Germany.
Dissertation
Fast and Accurate Three-Dimensional Reconstruction from
Cone-Beam
Projection Data Using Algebraic Methods.
PhD
Students Graduated
Shengying Li (2008, now at Barclays Bank)
Lujin Wang (2007, now at NVIDIA)
Fang Xu (2007, now at Siemens Corporate Research)
Neophytos Neophytou (2006, now at Intelepix LLC.)
Sarang Lakare (2004, now Siemens Corporate Research)