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Ghassan Hamarneh

Ghassan Hamarneh

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Computer Science

D-Index
59
Citations
13760
World Ranking
3429
National Ranking
135

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ghassan Hamarneh is a researcher affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence applications in medical imaging and healthcare.

Their work includes multiple publications in prominent venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Scientific Reports
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Hamarneh's main domains of study include Medicine and Computer Science, further specializing in subfields such as:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology

Their research topics encompass:

  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Ghassan Hamarneh include:

  • "Deep semantic segmentation of natural and medical images: a review," 2020, PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
  • "A Review of Super-Resolution Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy Cluster Analysis and Quantification Methods," 2020, Patterns
  • "A survey on deep learning for skin lesion segmentation," 2023, Medical Image Analysis
  • "Guidelines and evaluation of clinical explainable AI in medical image analysis," 2022, Medical Image Analysis
  • "Deep learning for biomedical image reconstruction: a survey," 2020, Research Portal (King's College London)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Kumar Abhishek
  • Ivan R. Nabi
  • Ben Cardoen
  • Weina Jin
  • Rafeef Garbi

Ghassan Hamarneh has been recognized as an ACM Senior Member since 2010. Their research integrates AI techniques with medical diagnostics, particularly in imaging and oncology contexts, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach bridging technology and medicine.

Best Publications

  • A Survey on Shape Correspondence

    Oliver van Kaick;Hao Zhang;Ghassan Hamarneh;Daniel Cohen-Or

  • Deep semantic segmentation of natural and medical images: a review

    Saeid Asgari Taghanaki;Kumar Abhishek;Joseph Paul Cohen;Julien Cohen-Adad

  • BrainNetCNN: Convolutional neural networks for brain networks; towards predicting neurodevelopment.

    Jeremy Kawahara;Colin J. Brown;Steven P. Miller;Brian G. Booth

  • Seven-Point Checklist and Skin Lesion Classification Using Multitask Multimodal Neural Nets

    Jeremy Kawahara;Sara Daneshvar;Giuseppe Argenziano;Ghassan Hamarneh

  • Combo loss: Handling input and output imbalance in multi-organ segmentation

    Saeid Asgari Taghanaki;Saeid Asgari Taghanaki;Yefeng Zheng;S. Kevin Zhou;Bogdan Georgescu

  • Deep features to classify skin lesions

    Jeremy Kawahara;Aicha BenTaieb;Ghassan Hamarneh

  • A Review of Super-Resolution Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy Cluster Analysis and Quantification Methods.

    Ismail M. Khater;Ivan Robert Nabi;Ghassan Hamarneh

  • Evaluation and Comparison of Anatomical Landmark Detection Methods for Cephalometric X-Ray Images: A Grand Challenge

    Ching-Wei Wang;Cheng-Ta Huang;Meng-Che Hsieh;Chung-Hsing Li

  • Adversarial Stain Transfer for Histopathology Image Analysis

    Aicha Bentaieb;Ghassan Hamarneh

  • Watershed segmentation using prior shape and appearance knowledge

    Ghassan Hamarneh;Xiaoxing Li

  • $n$ -SIFT: $n$ -Dimensional Scale Invariant Feature Transform

    W. Cheung;G. Hamarneh

  • Segmentation of Intra-Retinal Layers From Optical Coherence Tomography Images Using an Active Contour Approach

    A Yazdanpanah;G Hamarneh;B R Smith;M V Sarunic

  • Multi-resolution-Tract CNN with Hybrid Pretrained and Skin-Lesion Trained Layers

    Jeremy Kawahara;Ghassan Hamarneh

  • VascuSynth: Simulating vascular trees for generating volumetric image data with ground-truth segmentation and tree analysis

    Ghassan Hamarneh;Preet Jassi

  • N-SIFT: N-DIMENSIONAL SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM FOR MATCHING MEDICAL IMAGES

    W. Cheung;G. Hamarneh

  • Evaluation of Three Algorithms for the Segmentation of Overlapping Cervical Cells

    Zhi Lu;Gustavo Carneiro;Andrew P. Bradley;Daniela Ushizima

  • Missing MRI Pulse Sequence Synthesis Using Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network

    Anmol Sharma;Ghassan Hamarneh

  • Topology Aware Fully Convolutional Networks for Histology Gland Segmentation

    Aïcha BenTaieb;Ghassan Hamarneh

  • Active learning for interactive 3d image segmentation

    Andrew Top;Ghassan Hamarneh;Rafeef Abugharbieh

  • Deformable organisms for automatic medical image analysis.

    Tim McInerney;Tim McInerney;Ghassan Hamarneh;Ghassan Hamarneh;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Demetri Terzopoulos;Demetri Terzopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Möller
Torsten Möller University of Vienna
Allard Jongman
Allard Jongman University of Kansas
Demetri Terzopoulos
Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles
Hao Zhang
Hao Zhang Simon Fraser University
Daniel Cohen-Or
Daniel Cohen-Or Tel Aviv University
Mark S. Drew
Mark S. Drew Simon Fraser University
S. Kevin Zhou
S. Kevin Zhou University of Science and Technology of China
Yefeng Zheng
Yefeng Zheng Tencent (China)
Dorin Comaniciu
Dorin Comaniciu Siemens (United States)
Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant University of Toronto

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