Yong Yue Associate Professor

Research:

• Treatment planning systems: Varian Eclipse
• Information systems: Varian AIRA Oncology Information System and Elekta MOSAIQ
• Linear accelerators: Varian TrueBeam and Trilogy, Elekta Versa HD
• HDR afterloaders: Varian Varisource iX
• CT simulators: GE Discovery CT with the Varian RPM system
• Water tank system: IBA Blue Phantom 2 with the OmniPro Accept 7.4.
• Breathing monitoring systems: Varian RPM system and Calypso 4D system, Vision RT, QFix SDX system
• Breathing motion simulation and QA phantoms: Dynamic Thorax Phantom
• QA devices: Sun Nuclear ArcCheck, Mapcheck2, IC profiler, IBA MatriXX Evolution, Landauer nanoDot OSLD system,
• and the Phantom Laboratory RANDO phantom
• Software: Varian Eclipse API, Sun Nuclear SNC Patient, and Varian Velocity, MIM software, RadCal, MATLAB, SAS
• Languages: C/C++/C#, Cuda GPU programming, Perl, Python, R

Clinical Interests:

• Medical image analysis and processing
  • Multiple imaging modality fusion: rigid and non-rigid registration, B-spline deformable registration, optical flow,demons and feature-based elastic body registration
  • Image segmentation: Anatomical structure boundary detection using active contour, level set, deformable models,geodesic active contour, active shape model, maximum a posteriori segmentation, and learning based segmentation
  • Image reconstruction: Filter back projection (FBP), ordered-subsets expectation-maximization (OSEM)
  • Computational modeling: Statistical image modeling, machine learning, and pattern recognition, statistical learning,nonlinear discriminant analysis, manifold learning