Nasir M. Rajpoot, PhD

Associate Professor
Signal and Image Processing (SIP) Group
Medical Informatics and Medical Image Computing (MiMIC) Group
Room CS.234
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
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My DCS Calendar

"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

Research Interests

- Biomedical image analysis (Computational Histopathology)
- Texture analysis (WaveTex, Phase Gradients, VillageFinder)
- Wavelet representations (Planelets, Polar cosine transform)
- Image Denoising (Multilateral Filtering)
- Shape Analysis

Past Projects

- Video Denoising (TIWP3D Video Denoising)
- Image Coding (CZQ/SRWP Image Coding)
- Data compression (FP)

Publications

Teaching

- CS132: Computer Organisation and Architecture
- CS138: Mathematics for Computer and Business Studies
- CS403: Multimedia Processing, Communications and Storage [Wavelets section]
- CS313: Mobile Robotics ( see Rob, the DCS mobile robot) Not running during 2009-10
- CS310: 3rd year project ideas
- CS407: 4th year group project ideas
- CS907: MSc project ideas

Office Hours for Spring Term 2009-10:
14.00-15.00 on Mondays, 16.00-17.00 on Tuesdays
(Email me for arranging to meet outside these hours. Here is my Departmental Calendar.)

Current Graduate Students

- Nerin George (MSc candidate, Financial data modelling)
- Vinay Kalasannavar (MSc candidate, Pathology 2.0)
- Khalid Masood (PhD candidate, Histology image analysis for human colon biopsy classification)
- Poorna Chandra Suraj (MRes candidate, Lung carcinoma histology image analysis)

Former Graduate Students

- 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

- 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

- General Chair, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Warwick (UK), July 6-7, 2010
- Co-organiser, ICPR'2010 Contest on Pattern Recognition in Histopathological Images, Istanbul (Turkey), August 23, 2010
- Chair, BMVA Symposium on Microscopy Image Analysis for Biomedical Applications, London (UK), April 21, 2010
- Chair, MICCAI'2009 Workshop on Optical Tissue Image Analysis in Microscopy, Histopathology and Endoscopy (OPTIMHisE), Imperial College London (UK), September 2009
- Organiser, Histology Image Analysis (HIMA): Now and Future, Ohio State University, Columbus, July 2009
- Presenter, MICCAI'2008 Tutorial on Histopathology Imaging, New York (USA), September 2008
- Chair, ISBI'2008 Special Session on Computational Histopathology, Paris (France), May 2008
- Programme Chair, 18th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'2007), University of Warwick (UK), September 2007

- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2010): ISBI'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

- 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:

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