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  • 2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to three-dimensional medical imaging and processing.

Overview

William E. Higgins is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant concentration in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Additional subfields include Surgery, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiation, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics covered in their work are:

  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment

William E. Higgins has contributed to several journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Medical Imaging
  • Journal of Imaging
  • Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent papers include:

  • Image-guided EBUS bronchoscopy system for lung-cancer staging, 2021, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
  • Multimodal Registration for Image-Guided EBUS Bronchoscopy, 2022, Journal of Imaging
  • Endobronchial Ultrasound Image Simulation for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • Automatic lesion detection for narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy, 2024, Journal of Medical Imaging
  • ESFPNet: efficient deep learning architecture for real-time lesion segmentation in autofluorescence bronchoscopic video, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Rebecca Bascom
  • Jennifer Toth
  • Trevor Kuhlengel
  • Wennan Zhao
  • Danish Ahmad

William E. Higgins received the IEEE Fellow award in 2004 for contributions to three-dimensional medical imaging and processing.

Best Publications

  • Optimal Gabor filters for texture segmentation

    D. Dunn;W.E. Higgins

  • Texture segmentation using 2-D Gabor elementary functions

    D. Dunn;W.E. Higgins;J. Wakeley

  • Efficient Gabor filter design for texture segmentation

    Thomas P. Weldon;William E. Higgins;Dennis F. Dunn

  • Symmetric region growing

    S.-Y. Wan;W.E. Higgins

  • Three-Dimensional Human Airway Segmentation Methods for Clinical Virtual Bronchoscopy☆

    Atilla P. Kiraly;William E. Higgins;William E. Higgins;Geoffrey McLennan;Eric A. Hoffman

  • Virtual bronchoscopy for three--dimensional pulmonary image assessment: state of the art and future needs.

    William E. Higgins;Krishnan Ramaswamy;Roderick D. Swift;Geoffrey McLennan

  • Method and apparatus for continuous guidance of endoscopy

    William E. Higgins;Scott A. Merritt;Lav Rai;Jason D. Gibbs

  • Three-dimensional path planning for virtual bronchoscopy

    A.P. Kiraly;J.P. Helferty;E.A. Hoffman;G. McLennan

  • Videoendoscopic distortion correction and its application to virtual guidance of endoscopy

    J.P. Helferty;Chao Zhang;G. McLennan;W.E. Higgins

  • Gabor filter design for multiple texture segmentation

    Thomas P. Weldon;William E. Higgins;Dennis F. Dunn

  • Fast 3d-2d image registration method with application to continuously guided endoscopy

    William E. Higgins;Scott A. Merritt;Lav Rai

  • Extraction of the hepatic vasculature in rats using 3-D micro-CT images

    Shu-Yen Wan;A.P. Kiraly;E.L. Ritman;W.E. Higgins

  • 3D CT-video fusion for image-guided bronchoscopy.

    William E. Higgins;James P. Helferty;James P. Helferty;Kongkuo Lu;Scott A. Merritt

  • Robust 3-D Airway Tree Segmentation for Image-Guided Peripheral Bronchoscopy

    M.W. Graham;J.D. Gibbs;D.C. Cornish;W.E. Higgins

  • Shape-based interpolation of tree-like structures in three-dimensional images

    W.E. Higgins;C. Morice;E.L. Ritman

  • Computer-based system for the virtual-endoscopic guidance of bronchoscopy

    J. P. Helferty;A. J. Sherbondy;A. P. Kiraly;W. E. Higgins

  • Interactive morphological watershed analysis for 3D medical images

    William E Higgins;Eric J Ojard

  • Noise reduction strategies for digital filters: Error spectrum shaping versus the optimal linear state-space formulation

    W. Higgins;D. Munson

  • System for analyzing high-resolution three-dimensional coronary angiograms

    W.E. Higgins;W.J.T. Spyra;R.A. Karwoski;E.L. Ritman

  • Developing Larger TlBr Detectors—Detector Performance

    H. Kim;L. Cirignano;A. Churilov;G. Ciampi

  • Extraction of left-ventricular chamber from 3-D CT images of the heart

    W.E. Higgins;N. Chung;E.L. Ritman

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph M. Reinhardt
Joseph M. Reinhardt University of Iowa
Milan Sonka
Milan Sonka University of Iowa

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