Visual and Force-Feedback Guidance for Robot-Assisted Interventions in the Beating Heart with Real-Time MRI Nikhil Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Dipan J. Shah, Kostas Berkis, and Nikos V. Tsekos Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2012 , St Paul, MN, May 14-18, 2012, pp. 689-694 [Best Medical Robotics Paper Runner-up Award] [pdf]
Robot-Assisted Mechanical Scanning and Co-Registration of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Light-Induced Flurescence Ahmet E. Sonmez, William M. Spees, Alpay Ozcan, Zhigang Deng, Andrew Webb, and Nikolaos V. Tsekos Proc. of Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2012 Rome, Italy, June 24-28, 2012, pp. 775-780. [Best Student Paper Finalist] [pdf]
A Global Spatial Similarity Optimization Scheme to Track Large Numbers of Dendritic Spines in Time-lapse Confocal Microscopy Qing Li, Zhigang Deng, Yong Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, U. Valntin Nagerl, and Stephen T. C. Wong IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) , 30(3), March 2011, pp. 632-641 [pdf]
A Novel Virtual Reality Environment for Preoperative Planning and Simulation of Image Guided Intracardiac Surgeries with Robotic Manipulators Erol Yeniaras, Zhigang Deng, Mushabbar A. Syed, Mark Davies, and Nikos V. Tsekos Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011 Conference(MMVR) , Long Beach, CA, Feb 2011, pp. 716-722 [pdf]
Agent-based Approaches for Stylizing Motion Variations and Formations in Crowd Simulation Qin Gu PhD Dissertation , Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2011
Algorithms for Dendritic Spine Detection and Tracking in Time-Lapse Microscopy Neuron Images Qing Li PhD Dissertation , Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2011
An approach for robot-assisted biosensing: Demonstration with MRI-guided MR spectroscopy Ahmet Onmez, Yousef Hedayati, Andrew G. Webb, Zhigang Deng, and Nikos V. Tsekos Proc. of 10th IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Engineering (BIOENG) 2011 , Kos, Greece, Oct 2011, pp. 1-4 [pdf]
Comparison of Reaching Kinematics during Mirror and Parallel Robot Assisted Movements Zahra Kadivar, Cynthia Sung, Zachary Thompson, Marcia O’Malley, Michael Liebschner, and Zhigang Deng Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011 Conference(MMVR) , Long Beach, CA, Feb 2011, pp. 247-253 [pdf]
Context-Aware Motion Diversification for Crowd Simulation Qin Gu, and Zhigang Deng IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) , Sept/Oct 2011, pp. 14-25 [Video] [pdf]
Extracting Geometric Features of Aortic-Valve Annulus Motion from Dynamic Cardiac MRI for Guiding Interventions Nikhil Navkar, Erol Yeniaras, Dipan J. Shah, Nikos V. Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2011 , Chicago, IL, March 2011, pp. 1302-1305 [pdf]