Jing Cheng
I am a Ph.D. student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. My research interests include image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition. I am working with Dr. Sameer Antani on the Advanced Medical Imaging Tools (AMIT) project. Specifically, I am developing software tools for CBIR of medical images over the Internet. The tools enable shape-based retrieval of digitized spine X-ray images from the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II).The tools provide combined access to image and text databases. Currently, I am developing a medical image validation and pathology collection tool. The tool will enable radiologists and other medical experts in providing pathology information pertinent to our project and validate the segmented boundaries marked by (semi) automated methods operated by technicians. I also assist in the maintenance and management of CEB webpages.

Zhiyun Xue
Zhiyun (Jaylene) Xue joined the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as a postdoctoral fellow since May 2006. She works on the project of Content Based Image Retrieval for Cervicographic Image Database.

Dr. Xue received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in 2006, and her master's and bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1998 and 1996, respectively. Her research interests include m edical image analysis, computer vision, and machine learning.