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]
Formation Sketching: An Approach to Stylize Groups in Crowd Simulation Qin Gu, and Zhigang Deng Proc. of Graphics Interface (GI) 2011 , St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, May 2011, pp. 1-8 [Video] [pdf]
Generation of 4D Access Corridors from Real-Time Multislice MRI for Guiding Transapical Aortic Valvuloplasties Nikhil Navkar, Erol Yeniaras, Dipan J. Shah, Nikos V. Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2011 , Toronto, Canada, Sep 2011, pp. 251-258 [pdf]
Improving Energy Efficiency of GPU based General-Purpose Scientific Computing through Automated Selection of Near Optimal Configurations Xiaohan Ma, Mario Rincon, and Zhigang Deng Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-11-08 , University of Houston, Oct 2011 [pdf]