Nasir M. Rajpoot, PhD, SMIEEE

Associate Professor
Computational Biology and Bioimaging (COMBI)
Room CS.303
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
My DCS Official Page

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Albert Einstein

Current Research Interests

- Bioimage Computing
- Histopathology Image Analysis - Pattern Recognition

Past Projects

- Image Denoising (Multilateral Filtering)
- Video Denoising (TIWP3D Video Denoising)
- Texture analysis (WaveTex, Phase Gradients, VillageFinder)
- Wavelet representations (Planelets, Polar cosine transform)
- Shape Analysis
- Image Coding (CZQ/SRWP Image Coding)
- Data compression (FP)

Publications

Teaching

- CS313: Mobile Robotics 2001-07 and 2010-
- CS403: Multimedia Processing, Communications and Storage [Wavelets section] 2002-
- CS138: Mathematics for Computer and Business Studies 2009-
- CS132: Computer Organisation and Architecture 2008-10
- CS310: 3rd year project ideas
- CS407: 4th year group project ideas
- CS907: MSc project ideas

Office Hours for Summer Term (Term 3) 2011-12:
09.00-10.00 and 16.00-17.00 on Fridays
(Email me to arrange to meet outside these hours)

Current Graduate Students

- Sarah Cosgriff (End-binding proteins, PhD candidate funded by BBSRC)
- Ben Fitton (Microtubule dynamics, PhD candidate funded by EPSRC)
- Samuel Jefferyes (Cell motility modeling, PhD candidate funded by BBSRC)
- Adnan Khan (Digital pathology image analysis, PhD candidate funded by WPRS)
- Guannan Li (Bioimage analysis, PhD candidate)
- Shan-e-Ahmad Raza (Multimodal registration, PhD candidate funded by HDC and DCS)
- Leigh Robinson (Vision, PhD candidate funded by EPSRC)
- Violet Kovacheva (Multi-tag bioimage analysis, MSc candidate funded by BBSRC)
- Korsuk Sirinukunwattana (Gene expression profiling, MSc candidate funded by EPSRC)
- Dan Peet (Microtubule tracing, MSc candidate funded by BBSRC)

Former Graduate Students

- PC Suraj Bangalore-Nagaraj (Tracking spots in fluorescence microscopy); MRes (August, 2011)
- Vinay Kalasannavar (Analysis of Pathology Images); MSc (November, 2010)
- Nerin George (Financial data modelling); MSc (November, 2010)
- Khalid Masood (Histology image analysis for human colon biopsy classification); PhD (September, 2010)
- Hammad Qureshi (Classification of meningioma histology images); PhD (December, 2009)
- Irfan Butt (Multilateral filtering for image denoising); MSc (November, 2009) Best Dissertation Prize
- Adnan Osmani (Glandular segmentation in colon histology images); MRes (July, 2009)
- Zhen Yao (Directional edge and texture representations for image processing); PhD (December, 2007)

Professional Activities/Affiliations

- Associate Editor, Machine Vision and Applications

- Guest Editor, Special issue on Microscopy Image Analysis for Biomedical Applications (MIABA), Springer Machine Vision and Applications (MVA), 2011
- Guest Editor, Special issue on Multivariate Microscopy Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2010
- Guest Editor, Special issue on New Advances in Video-based Gait Analysis and Applications: Challenges and Solutions, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, 2010

- Co-Chair, MICCAI'2012 workshop on Histopathology Image Analysis (HIMA), Nice (France), October 5, 2012
- Co-Chair, MICCAI'2011 workshop on Histopathology Image Analysis (HIMA), Toronto (Canada), September 18, 2011
- Co-Presenter, ASIP Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology: Trends in Experimental Pathology, Washington DC (USA), April 9, 2011
- Co-Chair, HIMA Course at Pathology Informatics 2010, Boston (MA, USA), September 19-22, 2010
- Co-Chair, ICPR'2010 Contest on Pattern Recognition in Histopathological Images, Istanbul (Turkey), August 23, 2010
- General Chair, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Warwick (UK), July 6-7, 2010
- Co-Chair, BMVA Symposium on Microscopy Image Analysis for Biomedical Applications, London (UK), April 21, 2010
- Co-Chair, MICCAI'2009 Workshop on Optical Tissue Image Analysis in Microscopy, Histopathology and Endoscopy (OPTIMHisE), Imperial College London (UK), September 2009
- Co-Chair, Histology Image Analysis (HIMA): Now and Future, Ohio State University, Columbus, July 2009
- Co-Presenter, MICCAI'2008 Tutorial on Histopathology Imaging, New York (USA), September 2008
- Co-Chair, ISBI'2008 Special Session on Computational Histopathology, Paris (France), May 2008
- Technical Chair, 18th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'2007), University of Warwick (UK), September 2007

- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2012): MICCAI'2012, ICIP'2012, ICPR'2012, BMVC'2012, MIUA'2012, ICISP'2012
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2011): MIAAB'2011, MIUA'2011, ICIP'2011, ISBI'2011, ICASSP'2011
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2010): MICCAI'2010, BMVC'2010, ISBI'2010, ICIP'2010
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2009): BMVC'2009, ICIP'2009, ISBI'2009, MIUA'2009, ICASSP'2009, BTAS'2009
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2008): MICCAI'2008, BMVC'2008, ICIP'2008, MIUA'2008
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2007): BMVC'2007, ICIP'2007, MIUA'2007, ICMV'2007
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2006): MICCAI'2006, ICIP'2006, MIUA'2006, DEST'2007
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions IP, MI, CSVT, SP, SPL, SMC, NN
- Reviewer, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Analysis and Applications, IET Electronic Letters, IEE Proceedings VISP, SPIE Optical Engineering

- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Member, British Machine Vision Association (BMVA)

Contact Information

Tel#: +44 (24) 7657 3795
Fax#: +44 (24) 7657 3024
email:

Last modified by NMR in March 2012