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Staff Bibliography

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2008 publications

  • Deserno TM, Antani S, Long R. Ontology of Gaps in Content-Based Image Retrieval.  Journal of Digital Imaging. February 2008. (PDF)
  • Antani S, Demner-Fushman D, Li J, Srinivasan BV, Thoma GR. Exploring use of images in clinical articles for decision support in Evidence-Based Medicine.  Proc. SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6815: 68150Q (1-10). (PDF)
  • Kim IC, Le DX, Thoma GR.. Hybrid approach combining contextual and statistical information for identifying MEDLINE citation terms.  Proc. SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6815: 68150X (1-9). (PDF)
  • Stanley R, Antani S, Long R, Thoma G, Gupta K, Das M. Size-invariant descriptors for detecting regions of abnormal growth in cervical vertebrae.  Comput Med Imaging Graph, 32(1) (2008); pp. 44-52. (PDF)
  • Xu X, Lee DJ, Antani SK, Long LR. A Spine X-Ray Image Retrieval System using Partial Shape Matching.  IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. January 2008. 12(1):100-8 (PDF)
  • Zou J, Le D, Thoma GR. Extracting a Sparsely-Located Named Entity from Online HTML Medical Articles Using Support Vector Machine.  Proc. SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6815: 68150P (1-10). (PDF)

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2007 publications

  • Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. Semantic Clustering of Answers to Clinical Questions.  To appear in Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Information Association (AMIA 2007), Chicago, November 2007, pp. 458-462. (PDF)
  • Xue Z, Antani SK, Long LR, Jeronimo J, Thoma GR. Investigating CBIR Techniques for Cervicographic Images.  To appear in Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Information Association (AMIA 2007), Chicago, November 2007, pp. 826-830. (PDF)
  • Demner-Fushman D, Antani SK, Thoma GR. Automatically Finding Images for Clinical Decision Support.  To appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining in Medicine (DM-Med 2007). Omaha, NE, October 2007, pp. 139-144. (PDF)
  • Chen S, Mao S, Thoma GR. Simultaneous Layout Style and Logical Entity Recognition in a Heterogeneous Collection of Documents.  Proceedings of 9th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2007). Curitiba, Brazil; September 2007, pp. 118-22. (PDF)
  • Li J, Demner-Fushman D, Antani SK, Thoma GR. Localizing Text and Symbols in Images from Biomedical Journal Articles.  Poster at 20th NIH Research Festival (BIOINFO-6), September 2007, National Institutes of Health. (ABSTRACT)
  • Simpson M, Ford G, Antani SK, Demner-Fushman D, Thoma GR. A Lightweight Statistics Package for Interactive Publications.  Poster at 20th NIH Research Festival (TECH-15), September 2007, National Institutes of Health. (ABSTRACT)
  • Srinivasan B, Antani SK, Demner-Fushman D, Thoma GR. Identification and Segmentation of Multi-panel Images in Biomedical Journal Articles.  Poster at 20th NIH Research Festival (BIOINFO-1), September 2007, National Institutes of Health. (ABSTRACT)
  • Zhu Y, Long LR, Antani SK, Xue Z, Thoma GR. Web-based STAPLE for Quality Estimation of Multiple Image Segmentations.  Poster at 20th NIH Research Festival (IMAG-12), September 2007, National Institutes of Health. (ABSTRACT)
  • Antani SK, Deserno TM, Long LR, Thoma GR. Geographically distributed complementary Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems for Biomedical Image Informatics.  Proc. MEDINFO August 2007, Sydney, Australia; pp. 493:7 (PDF)
  • Hsu W, Antani S, Long LR. SPIRS: A Framework for Content-based Image Retrieval from Large Biomedical Databases.  Proceedings of MEDINFO August 2007. K. Kuhn etal. (Eds.). 188:92  (PDF)
  • Zou J, Le D, Thoma GR. Structure and content analysis for HTML medical articles: a Hidden Markov Model approach.  Proc. August 2007 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. pp. 199-201. (PDF)
  • Jeronimo J, Massad LS, Schiffman M for the NIH-ASCCP Research Group (Long LR and Neve L listed). Visual appearance of the uterine cervix: correlation with human papillomavirus detection and type.  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2007; 197:47.e1-47.e8. (PDF)
  • Aronson AR, Bodenreider O, Demner-Fushman D, Fung KW, Lee VK, Mork JG, Névéol A, Peters L, Rogers WJ. From Indexing the Biomedical Literature to Coding Clinical Text: Experience with MTI and Machine Learning Approaches.  Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNL'07), June 2007, pp. 105-112, Prague, Czech Republic. (PDF)
  • Fiszman M, Demner-Fushman D, Lang FM, Goetz P, Rindflesch TC. Interpreting Comparative Constructions in Biomedical Text.  Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNL'07), June 2007, pp. 137-144 Prague, Czech Republic. (PDF)
  • Ide NC, Loane RF, Demner-Fushman D. Essie: A Concept Based Search Engine for Structured Biomedical Text.  J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007. To appear in May/June (PDF)
  • Mao S, Mansukhani P, Thoma GR. Combining Static Classifiers and Class Syntax Models for Logical Entity Recognition in Scanned Historical Documents.  Proc. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2007, pp. 1-8. (PDF)
  • Misra D, Mao S, Rees J, Thoma GR. Archiving a Historic Medico-legal Collection: Automation and Workflow Customization.  Proc. IS&T Archiving 2007 Conference. Arlington, Virginia, May 2007; 157-61 (PDF)
  • Walker FL, Gallagher ME, Thoma GR. PDF File Migration to PDF/A: Technical Considerations.  Proc. Archiving 2007, Arlington, Virginia, May 21-24, 2007: 6-11. (PDF)
  • Antani SK, Deserno TM, Long LR. Güld MO, Neve L, Thoma GR. Interfacing global and local CBIR systems for medical image retrieval.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Imaging Research (Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin) March 2007, pp. 166-71. (PDF)
  • Deserno TM, Antani SK, Long LR. Exploring access to scientific literature using content-based image retrieval.  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging February 2007. Vol. 6516. pp. 65160L-1-8. (PDF)
  • Deserno TM, Antani SK, Long LR. Gaps in content-based image retrieval.  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging February 2007. Vol. 6516. pp. 65160J-1-11. (PDF)
  • Srinivasan Y, Nutter BS, Mitra SD, Yang S, Phillips B, Long LR. Challenges in automated detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging February 2007. Vol. 6514. pp. 65140F-1-11  (PDF)
  • Xue Z, Antani SK, Long LR, Thoma GR. Performance analysis of cervix ROI extraction and specular reflection removal algorithms for uterine cervix image analysis.  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging February 2007. Vol. 6512. pp. 65124I-1-9 (PDF)
  • Ahlers CB, Fiszman M, Demner-Fushman D, Lang FM, Rindflesch TC. Extracting Semantic Predications from MEDLINE Citations on Pharmacogenomics.  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 12:209-220(2007)  (PDF)
  • Demner-Fushman D, Lin J. Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques.  Computational Linguistics 33(1):63-103(2007) (PDF)
  • Kim I, Le DX, Thoma GR. Identification of "Comment-on Sentences" in Online Biomedical Documents Using Support Vector Machines.  Proc. SPIE conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval, vol. 6500, pp.65000O(1-8), San Jose, CA, January 2007. (PDF)
  • Zweigenbaum P, Demner-Fushman D, Yu H, Cohen KB. New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining.  Pacific Symposium on Biocumputing 12:205-208(2007) (PDF)
  • Jeronimo J, Massad LS, Castle PE, Wacholder S, Schiffman M, for the NIH-ASCCP Research Group (Long LR and Neve L listed). Interobserver agreement in the evaluation of digitized cervical images.  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2007; 110:833-840 (ABSTRACT)
  • Lotenberg S, Greenspan H, Gordon S, Long LR, Jeronimo J, Antani SK. Automatic evaluation of uterine cervix segmentations.  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2007. Vol. 6515. pp. 65151J-1-12. (PDF)
  • Zou J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Online Medical Journal Article Layout Analysis.  Proc. SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging 2007, SPIE Vol. 6500: 65000V (1-12). (PDF)

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2006 publications

  • Demner-Fushman D, Hauser SE, Humphrey SM, Ford GM, Jacobs JL, Thoma GR. MEDLINE as a Source of Just-in-Time Answers to Clinical Questions  Appear in Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006) (PDF)
  • Hauser SE, Demner-Fushman D, Ford GM, Jacobs JL, Thoma GR. Preliminary Comparison of Three Search Engines for Point of Care Access to MEDLINE® Citations (poster)  Appear in Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006) (PDF)
  • Huang X, Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. PICO as a Knowledge Representation for Clinical Questions  Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006) (PDF)
  • Sabir TF, Hauser SE, Thoma GR. Historical Author Affiliations Assist Verification of Automatically Generated MEDLINE Citations  AMIA 2006 (PDF)
  • Sneiderman C, Demner-Fushman D, Fiszman M, Rosemblat G, Lang FM, Norwood D, Rindflesch TC. Semantic Processing to Enhance Retrieval of Diagnosis Citations from Medline  Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006) (PDF)
  • Locatis C, Gaines C, Liu W, Gill M, Carney J, Foster J, McCall V, Woods M. A Blended Training Approach Using Videoconferencing for Distance Education  Journal of the Medical Library Association, October 2006, 94(4):464-8 (PDF)
  • Thoma GR. 2006 Annual Report - Communications Engineering Branch  Annual report LHNCBC, Octover 2006; 20pp (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Long LR, Antani S. Biomedical Imaging Research and Development: Knowledge from Images in the Medical Enterprise  Technical Report LHNCBC-TR-2006-002, September 2006;76pp (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Mao S, Misra D, Rees J. Design of a Digital Library for Early 20th century Medico-legal Documents  Proc. ECDL 2006. Eds: Gonzalo J et al. Berlin: Springer-Verlag; LNCS 4172: 147-57.  (PDF)
  • Lin J, Demner-Fushman D. The Role of Knowledge in Conceptual Retrieval: A Study in the Domain of Clinical Medicine  Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pages 99-106, August 2006, Seattle, Washington (PDF)
  • Mao S, Xu Z, Tjahjadi T, Thoma GR. Logical Entity Recognition in Multi-Style Document Page Images  Proc. 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pages 876-879, Hong Kong, China, August. 2006 (ABSTRACT)
  • Demner-Fushman D, Lin J. Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering  Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL 2006), July 2006, Sydney, Australia (PDF)
  • Demner-Fushman D, Lin J. Situated Question Answering in the Clinical Domain: Selecting the Best Drug Treatment for Diseases  Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006 Workshop on Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering, July 2006, Sydney, Australia (PDF)
  • Jeronimo J, Massad S, Wheeler C, Neve L, Long R, Schiffman M. Colposcopic appearance of the cervix of HPV-infected and HPV non-infected women  23rd International Papillomavirus Conference and Clinical Workshop, 1-7, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic (ABSTRACT)
  • Kim J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated Extraction of Bibliographic Information from Biomedical Online Journal Articles Using a String Matching Algorithm  Proc. 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, June 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah; 905-10 (PDF)
  • Lin J, Karakos D, Demner-Fushman D, Khudanpur S. Generative Content Models for Structural Analysis of Medical Abstracts  Proceedings of the 2006 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNL'06), June 2006, New York City, New York (PDF)
  • Long LR, Antani S, Jeronimo, Schiffman M, Bopf, Neve L, Cornwell C, Budihas SR, Thoma GR. Technology for medical education, research, and disease screening by exploitation of biomarkers in a large collection of uterine cervix images  Proc. 19th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2006), June 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah; 826-31 (PDF)
  • Xu X, Lee DJ, Antani S, Long LR. Pre-indexing for fast partial shape matching of vertebrae images  Proc. 19th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2006), June 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah; 105-10 (PDF)
  • Yao J, Antani S, Long R, Thoma G, Zhang Z. Automatic medical image annotation and retrieval using SECC  Proc. 19th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2006), June 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah; 820-5 (PDF)
  • Zou J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Combining DOM tree and geometric layout analysis for online medical journal article segmentation  Proc. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2006, Chapel Hill, NC; 119-28 (PDF)
  • Demner-Fushman D, Few B, Hauser SE, Thoma GR. Automatically identifying health outcome information in MEDLINE records  J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Jan-Feb;13(1):52-60 (PDF)
  • Gordon S, Zimmerman G, Long LR, Antani S, Jeronimo J, Greenspan H. Content Analysis of Uterine Cervix Images: Initial Steps Towards Content Based Indexing and Retrieval of Cervigrams  Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6144 61444U-8 (PDF)
  • Antani S, Cheng J, Long J, Long LR, Thoma GR. Medical Validation and CBIR of Spine X-ray Images over the Internet  Proc. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Science and Technology 2006: Internet Imaging VII. San Jose. CA Jan 15-19, 2006, SPIE Vol. 6061 pp. 60610J (1-9). (PDF)
  • Castle PE, Jeronimo J, Schiffman M, Herrero R, Rodriguez AC, Bratti MC, Hildesheim A, Wacholder S, Long LR, Neve L, Pfeiffer R, Burk RD. Age-Related Changes of the Cervix Influence Human Papillomavirus Type Distribution  Cancer Res 2006;66 1218-1224 (ABSTRACT)
  • Jeronimo J, Long LR, Neve L, Bopf M, Antani S, Schiffman M. Digital Tools for Collecting Data from Cervigrams for Research and Training in Colposcopy  Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, 2006, 10(1):16-25. (PDF)
  • Jeronimo J, Long R, Neve L,Ferris D, Noller K, Spitzer M, Mitra S, Guo J, Nutter B, Castle P, Herrero R, Rodriguez AC, Schiffman M. Preparing Digitized Cervigrams for Colposcopy Research and Education: Determination of Optimal Resolution and Compression Parameters  Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, Jan 2006, 10(1):39-44.  (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Ford G, Chung M, Vasudevan K, Antani S. Interactive publications: creation and usage  Proc. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2006: Digital Publishing. San Jose, CA. Jan 15-19, 2006. (PDF)

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2005 publications

  • Demner-Fushman D, Hauser SE, Thoma GR. The Role of Title, Metadata and Abstract in Identifying Clinically Relevant Journal Articles  American Medical Informatics Association 2005 Annual Symposium, October 22-26, 2005, Washington DC [to be published] (PDF)
  • Sutton VR, Hauser SE. Preliminary comparison of the SEER and PubMed search engines for answering clinical questions using PubMed on Tap, a PDA-based program for accessing biomedical literature  American Medical Informatics Association 2005 Annual Symposium, October 22-26, 2005, Washington DC [to be published] (PDF)
  • Thoma GR. 2005 Annual Report - Communications Engineering Branch  Annual report LHNCBC, Octover 2005; 21pp (PDF)
  • Hauser SE, Demner-Fushman D, Ford GL, Nguyen TQ, Gill M, Thoma GR. MD on Tap: Point of Care Information Delivery -- A Report to the Board of Scientific Counselors  Technical Report LHNCBC-TR-2005-004, September 2005 (PDF)
  • Kanungo T, Resnik P, Mao S, Kim DW, Zheng Q. The Bible and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition  Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, No. 6, 2005, pp. 124-130.
  • Mao S, Nie L, Thoma GR. Unsupervised Style Classification of Document Page Images  Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. II, September 11-14, 2005, Genova, Italy, pp. 510-513. (ABSTRACT) (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Antani S, Ford G, Chung M, Vasudevan K. Interactive Publications Research -- A Report to the Board of Scientific Counselors  Technical Report LHNCBC-TR-2005-005, September 2005 (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Mao S, Misra D. Automated metadata extraction to preserve the digital contents of biomedical collections  Proc. 5th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2005). September 2005. Benidorm, Spain; 214-19. (PDF)
  • Kim I, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated Cleanup Processing for Extracting Bibliographic Data from Biomedical Online Journals  In: Callaos N, Lesso W, editors. SCI 2005. Proc. 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; 2005 Jul 10-13; Orlando, FL. Vol. 4, p. 401-5 (PDF)
  • Kim JW, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated Labeling of Biomedical Online Journal Articles   In: Callaos N, Lesso W, editors. SCI 2005. Proc. 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; 2005 Jul 10-13; Orlando, FL. Vol. 3, Computer Science and Engineering. Orlando (FL): International Institute of Informatics and Systemics; c2005. p.406-411. (PDF)
  • Le DX, Thoma GR. Automatically Creating Biomedical Bibliographic Records from Printed Volumes of Old Indexes  In: Callaos N, Lesso W, editors. SCI 2005. Proc. 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; 2005 Jul 10-13; Orlando, FL. Vol. 3, Computer Science and Engineering. Orlando (FL): International Institute of Informatics and Systemics; c2005. p. 267-74. (PDF)
  • Thoma GR. Public access to anatomic images. Chapter in: Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine  Editors: Hsinchun Chen, Sherrilynne S. Fuller, Carol Friedman, and William Hersh. Norwell, MA: Springer Science + Business Media, 2005; 299-332. ISBN: 0-387-24381-X. (PDF) (DOC)
  • Xu X, Lee DJ, Antani SK, and Long LR. Relevance Feedback for Spine X-ray Retrieval  Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2005. Dublin, Ireland; pp. 197-202. (PDF)
  • Pearson, G. Methods to Store Metadata within Motion JPEG 2000 Files  Technical Report Preprint of May 27, 2005 (PDF)
  • Mao S, Misra D, Seamans J, Thoma GR. Design Strategies for a Prototype Electronic Preservation System for Biomedical Documents  Proc. IS&T Archiving 2005 Conference, April 27-29, 2005, Washington, D.C., pp. 48-53  (PDF)
  • Pearson G, Gill M. An Evaluation of Motion JPEG 2000 for Video Archiving  Proc. Archiving 2005, April 26-29, Washington, D.C., IS & T (www.imaging.org), pp. 237-243. (PDF)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Image Preservation Through PDF/A   Proceedings of the IS&T Archiving 2005 Conference, April 27-29, 2005, Washington, D.C., pp. 259-263 (PDF)
  • Antani SK, Natarajan M, Long JL, Long LR, Thoma GR. Developing a comprehensive system for content-based image retrieval of image and text from a national survey  Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, February 2005, San Diego, CA, vol. 5748:152-161. (PDF)
  • Lee DJ, Antani SK, Xu X, Long LR. Design and evaluation of a curve matching- based spine x-ray image retrieval system  Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, February 2005, San Diego, CA, vol. 5748:365-373. (PDF)
  • Long LR, Antani SK, Thoma GR. Image informatics at a national research center  Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 29, Feb 2005, 171-193 (PDF)
  • Tulpule B, Hernes DL, Srinivasan Y, Yang S, Mitra S, Sriraja Y, Nutter BS, Phillips B, Long LR, Ferris DG. A Probabilistic approaches to segmentation and classification of neoplasia in uterine cervix images using color and geometric features  Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, February 2005, San Diego, CA, vol. 5747:995-1003. (PDF)
  • Antani SK, Long LR, Thoma GR. Applying vertebral boundary semantics to CBIR of digitized spine x-ray images  Proceedings IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia 2005, Lienhart RW, Babaguci N, Chang EY, Eds., January 18-19, 2005, San Jose, California, USA, SPIE Vol. 5682, pp.98-107 (PDF)

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2004 publications

  • Tagare HD, Qian X, Fulbright R, Long R, Antani S. Shape Based Retrieval in NHANES II  Proc. 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Oct. 2004, NY 776-9 (PDF)
  • Alexander GL, Hauser SE, Steely K, Ford G, Demner-Fushman D. A Usability Study of the PubMed on Tap User Interface for PDAs  Proceedings of 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO) 2004 Imaging Informatics. September 7-11 2004; San Francisco, CA, USA. 1411-15 (PDF)
  • Antani S, Lee DJ, Long LR, Thoma GR. Evaluation of shape similarity measurement methods for spine x-ray images  Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Special issue: Multimedia Database Management Systems - Edited by Y. Li, J. R. Smith, T. Zhang and S.-F. Chang: Vol 15, No 3 pp 285-302. (PDF)
  • Antani S, Long LR, Thoma G. Content-Based Image Retrieval for Large Biomedical Image Archives  Proceedings of 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO) 2004 CDROM, Print: Part 2, September 7-11 2004. (PDF) (DOC)
  • Antani S, Long LR, Thoma G. Content-Based Image Retrieval for Large Biomedical Image Archives  Proceedings of 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO) 2004 Imaging Informatics. September 7-11 2004; San Francisco, CA, USA. 829-33 (PDF) (DOC)
  • Demner-Fushman D, Hauser SE, Ford G, Thoma GR. Organizing Literature Information for Clinical Decision Support  Proceedings of 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO) 2004 Imaging Informatics. September 7-11 2004; San Francisco, CA, USA. 602-6 (DOC) (PDF)
  • Hauser SE, Demner-Fushman D, Ford G, Thoma G. PubMed on Tap: Discovering Design Principles for Online Information Delivery to Handheld Computers  Proceedings of 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO) 2004 Imaging Informatics. September 7-11 2004; San Francisco, CA, USA. 1430-33 (DOC) (PDF)
  • Mao S, Thoma GR. Bayesian Learning of 2D Document Layout Models for Automated Preservation Metadata Extraction  Proc. 4th IASTED International Conference on VISUALIZATION, IMAGING, and IMAGE PROCESSING (VIIP 2004). September 6-8, 2004. Marbella, Spain. pp:329-34. (PDF)
  • Qian X, Tagare HD, Fulbright R, Long R, Antani S. Shape Indexing in Medical Image Databases using Pre-Shape Embedding  Proc. Distributed Databases and processing in Medical Image Computing, MICCAI, pp. 36-44, Sept. 2004
  • Kim J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated Labeling for Biomedical Journals published in Foreign Languages  In: Callaos N, Lesso W, Kurogi S, Tanaka A, Castillo O, editors. SCI 2004. Proc. 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; 2004 Jul 18-21; Orlando, FL. Vol. 5, Computer Science and Engineering. Orlando (FL): International Institute of Informatics and Systemics; c2004. p. 444-9 (PDF)
  • Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated article links identification for Web-based online medical journals  In: Callaos N, Lesso W, Kurogi S, Tanaka A, Castillo O, editors. SCI 2004. Proc. 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; 2004 Jul 18-21; Orlando, FL. Vol. 5, Computer Science and Engineering. Orlando (FL): International Institute of Informatics and Systemics; c2004. p. 462-6. (PDF) (DOC)
  • Shou J, Antani S, Long LR, Thoma GR. Evaluating Partial Shape Queries for Pathology-based Retrieval of Vertebra  In: Callaos N, Chambah M, Gaburro Z, Loutfi M, editors. SCI 2004. Proc. 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; 2004 Jul 18-21; Orlando, FL. Vol. 12, Applications of Cybernetics and Informatics in Optics, Signals, Science and Engineering. Orlando (FL): International Institute of Informatics and Systemics; c2004. p. 155‑60 (DOC) (PDF)
  • Xu X, Lee DJ, Antani S, Long LR. Curve Matching for Spine X-ray Image Retrieval using Dynamic Programming  In: Callaos N, Chambah M, Gaburro Z, Loutfi M, editors. SCI 2004. Proc. 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; 2004 Jul 18-21; Orlando, FL. Vol. 12, Applications of Cybernetics and Informatics in Optics, Signals, Science and Engineering. Orlando (FL): International Institute of Informatics and Systemics; c2004. p. 172-6 (PDF) (DOC)
  • Bopf M, Coleman T, Long LR, Antani S, Thoma GR, Jeronimo J, Schiffman M. An architecture for streamlining the implementation of biomedical text/image databases on the Web  Proc. 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2004, 563-69 (DOC) (PDF)
  • Hauser SE, Demner-Fushman D, Ford G, Thoma GR. A testbed system for mobile point-of-care information delivery  Proc. 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2004, 147-52. (DOC) (PDF)
  • Jeronimo J, Schiffman M, Long LR, Neve L, Antani S. A Tool for Collection of Region Based Data from Uterine Cervix Images for Correlation of Visual and Clinical Variables Related to Cervical Neoplasia  Proc. 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2004, 558-62 (DOC) (PDF)
  • Stanley RJ, Seetharaman S, Long LR, Antani S, Thoma GR, Downey E. Image analysis techniques for the automated evaluation of subaxial subluxation in cervical spine x-ray images  Proc. 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2004, 204-9 (PDF)
  • Xu X, Lee DJ, Antani S, Long LR. Partial shape matching of spine x-ray shapes using dynamic programming  Proc. 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2004, 97-102 (PDF)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. A Web-Based Paradigm for File Migration  Proceedings of IS&T's 2004 Archiving Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 20-23, 2004. (PDF) (DOC)
  • Chamarthy P, Stanley RJ, Cizek G, Long R, Antani S, Thoma G. Image analysis techniques for characterizing disc space narrowing in cervical vertebrae interfaces [Abstract only]  Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2004, 28(1-2):39-50 (HTML)
  • Jeronimo J, Herrero R, Ferris DG, Long LR, Antani SK, Schiffman M. Web-Based tools for Research and Education on HPV Natural History based on 100,000 digitized cervical images  21st International Papillomavirus Conference. Mexico City. February 22-27, 2004
  • Yang S, Guo J, King PS, Sriraja Y, Mitra S, Nutter B, Ferris D, Schiffman M, Jeronimo J, Long LR. Multispectral digital cervigram analyzer in the wavelet domain for early detection of cervical cancer  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2004, San Diego, CA, February 14-19, 2004, vol. 5370: 1833-44
  • Antani S, Xu X, Long LR, Thoma GR. Partial Shape Matching for CBIR of Spine X-ray Images  Proceedings IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging - Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia 2004. San Jose, CA; January 2004; SPIE Vol. 5307: 1-8. (PDF)
  • Mao S, Kim J, Thoma GR. A Dynamic Feature Generation System for Automated Metadata Extraction in Preservation of Digital Materials  Proc. First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries, Pages 225-232, Palo Alto, CA, January 2004. (DOC) (PDF)
  • Mao S, Kim J, Thoma GR. Style-Independent Document Labeling: Design and Performance Evaluation  Proc. SPIE conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval, pages 14-22, San Jose, CA, January 2004. (PDF)

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2003 publications

  • Antani S, Long LR, Thoma GR, Lee DJ. Anatomical shape representation in spine x-ray images  Proc. 3rd IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2003), Vol. 1; Sept 2003; Benalmadena, Spain; 510-15. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Mao S, Rosenfeld A, Kanungo T. Stochastic attributed K-D tree modeling of technical paper title pages  Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Barcelona, Spain, September 2003; 533-536. (PDF)
  • Antani S, Long LR, Thoma G, Stanley RJ. Vertebra Shape Classification using MLP for Content-Based Image Retrieval  Proc. IJCNN 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Portland, OR. International Neural Networks Society and IEEE Neural Networks Society. July 2003; 160-65. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Kim J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Generating Robust Features for Style-independent Labeling of Bibliographic Fields in Medical Journal Articles  Proc. 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. III, Orlando FL, July 2003; 53-6. (PDF) (DOC)
  • Kim J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated labeling algorithms for biomedical document images  Proc. 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. V, Orlando FL, July 2003; 352-57. (DOC) (PDF)
  • Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated document labeling for Web-based online medical journals.  Proc. 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. II, Orlando FL, July 2003; 411-15. (DOC) (PDF)
  • Lee DJ, Bates D, Dromey C, Xu X, Antani S. An imaging system correlating lip shapes with tongue contact patterns for speech pathology research [Abstract only]   Proc. 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2003; 307-13. (HTML)
  • Long LR, Antani SK, Thoma GR. A prototype content-based image retrieval system for spine x-rays  Proc. 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2003; 156-62. (HTML) (PDF) (DOC)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. A SOAP-Based Tool for User Feedback and Analysis  Proceedings of InfoToday 2003. Medford N.J.: Information Today, 2003, 313-322. (DOC) (PDF)
  • Xu X, Lee DJ, Antani S, Long LR. Localizing contour points for indexing an x-ray image retrieval system  Proc. 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2003; 169-74. (PDF)
  • Yang S, Guo J, Mitra S, Nutter B, Ferris D, Long LR. A wavelet-based multi-spectral codec for efficient detection of cervical neoplasia from encoded cervical images [Abstract only]  Proc. 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 2003; 68-73 (HTML)
  • Kanungo T, Mao S. Stochastic Language Model for Style-Directed Physical Layout Analysis of Documents  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 12, no. 5, May 2003, pp 583-596 [Abstract only]. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR, Razi A, Seamans JR, Strupp-Adams A, Edwards L, Gao J, Ledoux MT. Anatomic Images for the Public  Report to the NLM/LHC Board of Scientific Counselors, May 2003. pp. 42. (DOC) (PDF)
  • Ford G, Thoma GR. Ground truth data for document image analysis  Proceedings of 2003 Symposium on Document Image Understanding and Technology, 9-11 April 2003, Greenbelt, MD: 199-205. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Hauser SE, Sabir TF, Thoma GR. OCR correction using historical relationships from verified text in biomedical citations  Proceedings of 2003 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology. College Park MD: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Marylan: April 2003; 171-7. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Lee DJ, Antani S, Long LR. Similarity Measurement Using Polygon Curve Representation and Fourier Descriptors for Shape-based Vertebral Image Retrieval  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing, 15-20 February 2003, San Diego, CA, SPIE Vol. 5032 Part 3; pp. 1283-91. (PDF) (DOC)
  • Long LR, Antani S, Lee DJ, Krainak DM, Thoma GR. Biomedical information from a national collection of spine x-rays: film to content-based retrieval  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems, 15-20 February 2003, San Diego, CA, SPIE Vol. 5033: 70-84. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Zamora G, Sari-Sarraf H, Long LR. Hierarchical Segmentation of Vertebrae from X-ray Images  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing, 15-20 February 2003, San Diego, CA, Vol. 5032. (PDF)
  • Antani S, Long LR, Lee DJ, Thoma GR. Evaluation of shape indexing methods for content-based retrieval of x-ray images  Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Science and Technology 2003, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2003. Santa Clara, CA; January 2003; Spie Vol. 5021: 405-16. (PDF)
  • Hauser SE, Schlaifer J, Sabir TF, Demner-Fushman D, Thoma GR. Correcting OCR text by association with historic datasets  Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 2003. SPIE Vol. 5010: 84-93. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Kim J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated labeling of bibliographic data extracted from biomedical online journals  Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 2003. SPIE Vol. 5010: 47-56. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Mao S, Rosenfeld A, Kanungo T. Document structure analysis algorithms: a literature survey  Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 2003 SPIE Vol. 5010:197-207. (HTML) (PDF)

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2002 publications

  • Antani S, Long LR, Thoma GR. A Biomedical Information System for Combined Content-Based Retrieval of Spine X-ray Images and Associated Text Information  3rd Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP '02), Ahmedabad, India. Dec 2002, 242-47. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Antani S, Long LR, Krainak DM, Thoma GR. A content-based image retrieval system for vertebral images  Poster paper IMAG-2, NIH Research Festival 2002, Bethesda, MD; October 2002; http://festival02.nih.gov (HTML)
  • Mao S, Kanungo T. Software architecture of PSET: A page segmentation evaluation toolkit  International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 205-217, vol. 4, no. 3, Mar. 2002. [Abstract only]. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR. 2002 Annual Report - Communications Engineering Branch  Annual report LHNCBC, NLM; September, 2002 (DOC) (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Long LR, Antani S. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) of Biomedical Images  Report to the NLM/LHC Board of Scientific Counselors, September 2002. (PDF)
  • Krainak, Long, Thoma. Segmentation and content-based image retrieval with a spinal x-ray database  NLM Poster Day (PPT)
  • Thoma GR, Ford G, Le DX, Li Z. Text verification in an automated system for the extraction of bibliographic data  Proc. 5th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, August 2002, 423-32. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Le DX, Straughan SR, Thoma GR. Greek alphabet recognition technique for biomedical documents  Proc. 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. III, eds: Callaos N, et al; July 2002, 86-91. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. A SOAP-enabled system for an online library service  Proc. InfoToday 2002, Medford NJ: Information Today, May 2002, 320-9. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Nishinaga N, Tatsumi H, Gill M, Akashib A, Nogawa H, Reategui I. Trans-Pacific demonstration of Visible Human (TPD-VH)  Space Communications 17:4, March 2002 303-311. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Krainak DM, Long LR, Thoma GR. A method of content-based retrieval for a spinal x-ray image database  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: PACS and Integrated Medical Systems. Vol. 4685, San Diego, CA, February 23-28, 2002. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Long LR, Krainak DM, Thoma GR. Identifying image structures for content-based retrieval of digitized spine x-rays  Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing. Vol. 4684, San Diego, CA, February 23-28, 2002. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Ford G. Automated data entry system: performance issues  Proc. SPIE: Document Recognition and Retrieval IX, Vol. 4670, January 2002, 181-90. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Kanungo T, Mao S. Stochastic Language Model for Analyzing Document Physical Layout  Proc. SPIE conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval, pages 28-36, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2002.
  • Tezmol A, Sari-Sarraf H, Mitra S, Long R, Gururajan A. Customized Hough Transform for Robust Segmentation of Cervical Vertebrae from X-Ray Images  Proc. 5th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, IEEE Computer Society: Los Alamitos [Abstract only]. (HTML)

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2001 publications

  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Landmarking and feature localization in spine x-rays  Journal of Electronic Imaging 10(4), October 2001, 939-56. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Thoma GR. 2001 Annual Report - Communications Engineering Branch  Annual report LHNCBC, NLM; October 2001; 55pp. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Thoma GR. Document image analysis and understanding R&D  Internal R&D report to the Board of Scientific Counselors, CEB, LHNCBC, NLM; October 2001; 55pp. (HTML) (DOC)
  • Mao S, Kanungo T. Stochastic Language Models for Automatic Acquisition of Lexicons from Printed Bilingual Dictionaries  Proc. Document Layout Interpretation and Its Application, Seattle, WA, Sept. 2001 [Abstract only]. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR. Automating the production of bibliographic records for MEDLINE  Internal R&D report, CEB, LHNCBC, NLM; September 2001; 92. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Computer-assisted retrieval of biomedical image features from spine x-rays: progress and prospects  Proceeding of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2001), July 26-27, 2001, Bethesda, MD, pp. 46-50. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Pearson G, Moon CW. Bridging two biomedical journal databases with XML - a case study  Proc. 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society. July 2001, 309-14 [Abstract only]. (HTML)
  • Shah H. Proteus: A model for clinical protocols created from Knowledge Components  Proc. 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. July 2001, 59-64. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Tran LQ, Moon CW, Le DX, Thoma GR. Web page downloading and classification  Proc. 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. July 2001, 321-6. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Mao S, Kanungo T. Empirical performance evaluation methodology and its application to page segmentation algorithms  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, pages 242-256, vol. 23, no. 3, Mar. 2001. [Abstract only]. (HTML)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Identification and classification of spine vertebrae by automated methods  Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing. Vol. 4322, San Diego, CA, February 19-22, 2001, pp. 1478-1489. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Ford G, Hauser SE, Le DX, Thoma GR. Pattern matching techniques for correcting low confidence OCR words in a known context  Proc. SPIE, Vol. 4307, Document Recognition and Retrieval VIII, January 2001, 241-9. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Kim J, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated Labeling in Document Images.  Proc. SPIE, Vol. 4307, Document Recognition and Retrieval VIII, San Jose CA, January 2001, 111-22. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Lasko TA, Hauser SE. Approximate string matching algorithms for limited-vocabulary OCR output correction  Proc. SPIE, Vol.4307, Documnet Recognition and Retrieval VIII, San Jose, CA, January 2001, 232-40. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Feature indexing in a database of digitized x-rays  Proceedings of SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001. Vol. 4315, San Jose, CA, January 24-26, 2001, pp. 393-403. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Le DX, Tran LQ, Chow J, Kim J, Hauser SE, Moon CW, Thoma GR. Automated medical citation records creation for Web-based online journals  Proc. 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Los Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society July 2001 (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)

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2000 publications

  • Mao S, Kanungo T. Automatic training of page segmentation algorithms: An Optimization Approach  Proc. 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pages 531-534, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2000 [Abstract only]. (HTML)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Use of shape models to search digitized spine x-rays  Proc. IEEE Computer-Based Medical Systems 2000, Houston, TX; June, 2000; 255-60. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Read it to me!  Proc. 21st National Online Meeting. Medford, NJ; Information Today, Inc.; May 2000; 473-83. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Hauser SE, Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated zone correction in bitmapped document images  Proc. SPIE: Document Recognition and Retrieval VII, San Jose, CA, January 2000, SPIE Vol. 3976, 248-58. (PDF)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Indexing of image content in spine x-rays  Proceedings of SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VIII, vol. 3972, San Jose, CA, January 23-28, 2000, 55-63. (HTML) (DOC) (PDF)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Web-based document image processing  Proc. SPIE: Internt Imaging. San Jose, CA. January 2000; 268-77. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Le DX, Thoma GR. Page layout classification technique for biomedical documents  Proc. World Multiconference on Systems, Cybernetics, and Informatics (HTML) (PDF)

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1999 publications

  • Hauser SE, Sabir TF, Thoma GR. Speech recognition for program control and data entry in a production environment  Proc. SPIE: Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing II, Boston, MA, September 1999. (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Long LR, Berman, LE. Data storage and organization for a general access x-ray image archive  Report for NLM (HTML)
  • Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated document labeling using integrated image and neutral processing  Proc. 3rd World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI'99, Orlando, Florida, July-August 1999, 509.
  • Thoma GR, Le DX. Automating data entry for online biomedical databases  Proc. 14th National Conference on Integrated Online Library Systems IOLS´99. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.; May 1999; 121-8.
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Multimode delivery of multimedia information  Proc. 14th National Conference on Integrated Online Library Systems IOLS´99. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.; May 1999; 141-52. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Ford GM, Hauser SE, Thoma GR. Automated reformatting of OCR text from biomedical journal articles  Proc. 1999 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, April 1999; College Park, MD: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies; 321-5. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Le DX, Kim J, Pearson G, Thoma GR. Automated labeling of zones from scanned documents  Proc. 1999 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, April 1999; College Park, MD: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies; 219-26. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Pearson G, Thoma GR. Manual verification and correction of automatically labeled zones: User Interface Considerations  Proc. 1999 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, April 1999; College Park, MD: Institute for Advanced Compu (HTML) (PDF)
  • Thoma GR. Automating data entry into MEDLINE  Proc. 1999 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, April 1999; College Park, MD: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies; 217-8. (HTML)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Segmentation and feature extraction of cervical spine x-rays images  Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing, vol. 3661, San Diego, CA, February 20-26, 1999, 1037-1046. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Image query and indexing for digital x-rays  Proc. SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII, San Jose, CA, January 26-29, 1999; 12-21. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Java-assisted internet document delivery  Proc. Computers in Libraries 1999. Medford, NJ: Information Today. (HTML) (PDF)

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1998 publications

  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Internet access to digital medical X-rays by image features and associated text  Proc. IEEE 32nd Asilmoar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 1-4, 1998, 900-904.
  • Henderson E, Seamans J, Strupp-Adams A. VHIF: a prototype file format for anatomical images  The Second Visible Human Project Conference, October 1998
  • Seamans J, Henderson E. Network Distribution of the Visible Human Data Set  The Second Visible Human Project Conference, October 1998
  • Hauser, SE, Browne AC, Thoma GR, McCray AT. Lexicon assistance reduces manual verification of OCR output  Proc. 11th IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE computer Society.June 1998; 90-5.
  • Long LR, Thoma GR, Goh G-H, Neve L. Multimedia biomedical database tools for digital x-rays  Proc. 11th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 1998; 202-7.
  • Thoma GR. Automating data entry for biomedical databases  Proc. 11th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. June 1998; 20-1.
  • Long LR, Pillemer SR, Lawrence RC, Goh G-H, Neve L, Thoma GR. WebMIRs: Web-based medical information retrieval system  Proc. SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases IV, San Jose, CA, January 24-30, 1998, SPIE Vol., 3312, p. 392-403.
  • Gill MJ, Long LR, Ostchega Y, Goh G, Neve L, Thoma GR. Advanced communications technology for biomedical data dissemination via client/server architectures using Asynchronous Transfer Mode  Proc. 1997 Joint Meeting of the Public Health Conference on Reco
  • Long LR, Pillemer SR, Lawrence RC, Goh G-H, Neve L, Thoma GR. World Wide Web platform-independent access to biomedical text/image databases  Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 1998: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, SPIE (HTML) (PDF)
  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Web access to national health survey text/image databases  WIn: Wong STC, ed. Medical image databases. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998; 325-53.
  • Ostchega Y, Long LR, Goh G-H, Hirsch R, Ma LD, Scott WW, Johnson W, Thoma GR. Establishing the level of digitization for wrist and hand radiographs for the third national health and nutrition examination survey  Journal of Digital Imaging 1998. 11(3): 116
  • Zhou R, Henderson E, Seamans J.  Visualization of Visible Human Anatomical Images  The Second Visible Human Project Conference, October 1998

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1997 publications

  • Long LR, Goh G-H, Neve L, Thoma GR. Architecture for biomedical multimedia information delivery on the World Wide Web  In: Proc. SPIE Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II, SPIE Vol. 3229, 1997 Nov 2-5; Dallas, TX. p.160-9.
  • Long LR, Goh G-H, Thoma GR. Online digital x-ray atlas as a reference tool  International Journal on Digital Libraries, Springer-Verlag, Vol.1, No.3, November 1997, 220-30.
  • Thoma GR, Long LR. Compressing and transmitting visible human images  IEEE MultiMedia 1997 April-June; 4(2): 36-45.
  • Thoma GR, Hauser SE, Ford G. Automating document delivery: a case study  Proc. the 12th Annual Computers in Libraries. Arlington, VA. Published by Information Today, Inc. March 10-12, 1997; 137-9.
  • Long LR, Ostchega Y, Goh G-H, Thoma GR. Distributed data collection for a set of radiological x-ray interpretations  Proc. SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases V, SPIE vol. 3022; 1997 Feb 8-14; San Jose, CA. p. 228-37.
  • Long LR, Pillemer S, Goh G-H, Berman LE, Neve L, Thoma GR, Premkumar A, Ostchega Y, Lawrence R, Altman RD, Lane NE, Scott WW, Jr. A digital atlas for spinal x-rays  Proc. Medical Imaging 1997: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, S
  • Meadows S, Thoma GR, Long LR, Mitra S. Entropy encoding of difference images from adjacent Visible Human digital color photographic slices for lossless compression  In: Kim, Yongmin, editor. Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display. SPIE Vol. 3031, 1997; p. 74
  • Thoma GR, Le DX. Medical database input using integrated OCR and document analysis and labelling technology  Proc. 1997 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studi
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Internet document delivery: an end user survey  In:Proceedings IOLS'97. Medford NJ:Learned Information; 1997; p. 145-53. (HTML)

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1996 publications

  • Hauser SE, Berman LE, Thoma GR. Performance of RAID as a storage system for Internet image delivery  Proc. SPIE: Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems, Vol. 2916, Boston, MA, November 18-19, 1996, 14-22. (HTML)
  • Long LR. Transmission of medical images over wide area networks  Proc. the Visible Human Project Conference, Bethesda, MD, October 7-8, 1996 (CD-ROM).
  • Hauser SE, Berman LE, Thoma GR. Is the bang worth the buck? A RAID performance study  Proc. the Fifth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies. NASA Conference Publication 3340, September 1996, 131-140. (HTML)
  • Berman LE, Neve L, Altemus A. Pre-deployment system development for the Visible Embryo Project  Internal Report to the Communications Engineering Branch 1996. (HTML)
  • Long LR, Gill MJ, Thoma, GR. High speed satellite access to biomedical text/image databases  Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, May 13-15, 1996. (HTML)
  • Mitra S, Long LR, Pemmaraju S, Muyshondt R, Thoma GR. Color image coding using wavelet pyramid coders  Proc. SSIAI'96, San Antonio, TX, April 8-9, 1996.
  • Bazzill TM, Huang HK, Thoma GR, Long LR, Gill MJ. High speed image transmission via a communications satellite  Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging'96, Newport Beach, CA, February 10-15, 1996.
  • Long LR, Berman LE, Thoma GR. A prototype client/server application for biomedical text/image retrieval on the Internet  Proc. SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Still Image and Video Databases IV, San Jose, CA, February 1-2, 1996, 362-372. (HTML)
  • Pemmaraju S, Mitra S, Long LR, Shieh Y-Y, Roberson G. An adaptive vector quantization with fuzzy distortion measure for image coding  PRoc. SPIE Medical Imaging '96, Newport Beach, CA, February 10-15, 1996.
  • Le DX, Thoma GR, Wechsler H. Automated Borders Detection and Adaptive Segmentation For Binary Document Images  13th Int. Conf. Patt. Recog., Vienna, Austria, 1996. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR, Le DX. Augmenting keyboarded medical database input with OCR [Abstract only].  Proc. 1996 Int. Assoc. for Patt. Recog. Workshop on Document Analyis System, Malvern, PA. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR, Long LR, Berman LE. A client/server system for Internet access to biomedical text/image databanks  In: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Elsevier Science Ltd, 1996, Vol. 20, No. 4, 259-268.
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Internet document access and delivery  Proc. IOLS'96. Medford NJ: Learned Information, 1996; 107-116. (HTML)

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1995 publications

  • Long LR, Thoma GR. Medical image database access via satellite (MIDAS)  Proc. ACTS Results Conference; NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, September 11-13, 1995, VSAT section.
  • Le DX, Thoma GR, Wechsler H. Document image analysis using integrated image and neural processing  Proc. the Third ICDAR'95. Montreal, Canada, August 14-16, 1995, Vol. I, 327-330.
  • Long LR, Berman LE, Thoma GR. Client/server design for fast retrieval of large images on the Internet  Proc. the 8th IEEE Symposium of Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'95), Lubbock TX, June 9-10, 1995; 284-291. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR, Berman LE, Long LR. Digitized medical x-rays on the information superhighway  Proc. the 48th Annual Conference. Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Springfield, VA: IS&T; May 1995; 111-113.
  • Walker F, Thoma GR. DocView: providing access to printed literature through the Internet  Proc. the Tenth Integrated Online Library Systems Meeting, New York: Learned Information, Inc. May 3-4, 1995; 165-173. (HTML)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Docview: providing access to printed literature through the Internet  Proc. 1995 Tenth Integrated Online Library Systems Meeting New York, 165-173, May 3-4, 1995. (HTML)
  • Berman, LE, Thoma GR. Interdepartmental Resource Sharing at the LHNCBC  Internal Report for the Communications Engineering Branch (HTML)
  • Hauser SE, Gill MJ, Thoma GR. Document image archive transfer from DOS to Unix  Proc. the Fourth NASA Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, College Park, MD: NASA Conference Publication 3295, March 28-30, 1995; 105-113. (HTML)
  • Long LR, Berman LE, Neve L, Thoma GR. An application-level technique for transmission of large images on the Internet  Proc. SPIE: Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995, Vol. 2417, San Jose, CA, February 6-8, 1995, 116-129. (HTML)
  • Lawrence RC, Pillemar S, Murphy R, Ostchega Y, Thoma GR, Long LR, Berman LE. Computer and Internet access to a national population sample of radiographic images of neck and lumbar spine  Arthritis and Rheumatism 1995. Vol. 38, No. 9, p. s385.
  • Le DX, Thoma GR, Wechsler H. Classification of binary document images into textual or non-textual data blocks using neural network models  Machine Vision and Applications, Issue 8, 1995; 289-304. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR, Hauser SE, Le DX, Muller D, Walker FL. WILL: Advances in the management of Interlibrary Loan  Vol. 1. Internal technical report. Bethesda, MD: National Library of medicine, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, Communications Engineering Branch.
  • Thoma GR, Hauser SE, Le DX, Muller D, Walker FL. WILL: Design of a standalone WILL Unit  Vol. 2. Internal technical report. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, Communications Engineering B
  • Thoma GR, Walker FL. Access to document images over the Internet  In: Rada R, Ghaoui C,eds. Medical multimedia; Oxford UK: Intellect, 1995; 179-93. (HTML)

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1994 publications

  • Berman LE, Long R, Thoma GR. Challenges in providing access to digitized x-rays over the Internet  Proc. the 23rd AIPR Workshop Oct. 12-14, 1994 Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. (HTML)
  • Le DX, Thoma G, Weschler H. Automated page orientation and skew angle detection for binary document images  Pattern Recognition, Volume 27, Number 10, 1325-1344, October 1994. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR. NSF workshop on signal processing in the NII  August 18-19, 1994. (HTML)
  • Le DX, Thoma G, Weschler. Document classification using connectionist models  Proc. 1994 IEEE International Conference On Neural Networks, Orlando, FL June 28 - July 2, 1994 Vol. 5, 3009-3014. (HTML)
  • Berman LE, Long R, Pillemer SR. Effects of quantization table manipulation on JPEG compression of cervical radiographs  Society for Information Display International Symposium May 18-20, 1993 Vol. XXIV, 937-941. (HTML)
  • Hauser SE, Roy G, Thoma GR. Optical disk jukebox performance in multi-user applications  Proc. the 1994 Optical Data Storage Topical meeting, Vol. 10. Optical Society of America, May 1994; 53-5. (HTML)
  • Walker FL, Thoma GR. Access to document images over the internet  Proc. the Ninth Integrated Online Library Systems Meeting, New York. May 11-12, 1994 pp 185-197. (HTML)
  • Hauser SE, Cookson TJ, Thoma GR. Using back error propagation networks for automatic document image classification  Proc. SPIE: Applications of Artificial Neural Networks IV, Vol. 1965, Orlando, FL. April 13-16, 1993; 142-50.Using back error propagation networks for automatic document image classification
  • Henderson E, Seamans J, Soloman D. Electronic Capture and Conversion of Microscopy Images from Cytologic Glass Slides  American Society of Clinical Pathologists, Laboratory Medicine, Vol. 25, No. 4, April 1994Electronic Capture and Conversion of Microscopy Images from Cytologic Glass Slides
  • Berman LE, Nouri B, Roy B, Neve L. Interactive selection of JPEG quantization tables for digital X-ray image compression  IS&T/SPIE, San Jose, CA Feb. 1-4, 1994. (HTML)
  • Henderson E, Seamans J. Image Acquisition of Microscopic Slides  The International Society for Optical Engineering, Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science & Technology, February 1994 Image Acquisition of Microscopic Slides
  • Thoma GR, Hauser SE, Ford G, Stroman R. Automating document delivery: a case study  National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Library Bethesda, Maryland. (HTML) (PDF)
  • Thoma GR, Long LR, Berman LE. Design issues for a digital x-ray archive accessed over Internet  Proc. SPIE: Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases II. San Jose, CA: 1994 Vol. 2185, 129-138. (HTML)
  • Hauser SE, Hsu W, Thoma GR. Request routing with a back error propagation network  Proc. SPIE: Applications of Artificial Neural Networks IV, Vol. 1965, Orlando, FL. April 13-16, 1993; 689-95.Request routing with a back error propagation network
  • Le DX, Thoma GR. Automated portrait/landscape mode detection on a binary image  Proc. 1993 SPIE Symposium on Aerospace and Remote Sensing - Visual Information Processing II, Orlando, FL, April 14-16, 1993, Volume 1961, 202-212. (HTML)
  • Le DX, Thoma GR. Document skew angle detection algorithm  Proc. 1993 SPIE Symposium on Aerospace and Remote Sensing - Visual Information Processing II, Orlando, FL April 14-16, 1993 Vol. 1961, 251-262. (HTML)
  • Long R, Berman LE, Thoma GR. Design considerations for wide area distribution of digital x-ray images  PACS Design and Evaluation, Proc. SPIE v 1899, Medical Imaging, 1993; 383-394. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR. Challenges and Opportunities Workshop  Proc. the digitized radiographic images: challenges and opportunities workshop 1993. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR, Long LR, Berman LE. Access to a digital x-ray archive over Internet  Proc. SPIE, Enabling Technologies for High-Bandwidth Applications. Sept 1992; Vol. 1785, 79-86. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR. NSF workshop on medical databases  NSF VIMS Workshop March 1992. (HTML)
  • Thoma GR. Image Databases in Medicine  Proc. NSF VIMS Workshop (HTML)
  • Hauser SE, Rivera C, Thoma GR. Factors affecting the performance of a DOS-based WORM file server  Digest of Papers, Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, Monterey, CA. October 7-10, 1991; 33-7.Factors affecting the performance of a DOS-based WORM file server
  • Hauser SE, Mittu R, Rivera C, Thoma GR. Performance study of a LAN-based image server  Proc. the 10th Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix, AZ. IEEE Computer Society. March, 1991; 630-6.Performance study of a LAN-based image server
  • Hauser SE, Thoma GR. Testing OCR at Lister Hill - a case study  NFAIS Newsletter, Vol. 33, No. 1. Philadelphia, PA. January, 1991; 3.Testing OCR at Lister Hill - a case study
  • Thoma GR, Walker FL, Hauser SE. Biomedical document preservation by electronic imaging  In: Converting Information for WORM Optical Storage, JP Roth, ed., Meckler, 1990; 92-131.Biomedical document preservation by electronic imaging
  • Hauser SE, Thoma GR, Gass SI. Factors affecting the conversion rate of bound volumes to electronic form  Proc. Electronic Imaging '89, Boston, MA. October 2-5, 1989; 1041-6.Factors affecting the conversion rate of bound volumes to electronic form
  • Thoma GR, Hauser SE, Walker FL. Managing an archive of electronic document images  Proc. the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 26, October 1989; 59-65.Managing an archive of electronic document images
  • Hauser SE, Felsen MI, Gill MJ, Thoma GR. Networking AT-Class computers for image distribution  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol.7, No. 2, February 1989; 268-75.Networking AT-Class computers for image distribution
  • Hauser SE, Crocker MA. A performance study of an ethernet-based image transmission protocol  Proc. the 12th Conference on Local Computer Networks, Minneapolis, MN. IEEE Computer Society. October 5-7, 1987; 86-94.A performance study of an ethernet-based image transmission protocol
  • Thoma GR, Harris TR, Hauser SE, Walker FL. Design considerations affecting throughput in an optical disk-based document storage system  Proc. the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 24, October 1987; 9 pages.Design considerations affecting throughput in an optical disk-based document storage system
  • Hauser SE, Crocker MA, Harris TR. An investigation of broadband ethernet for image transmission  Proc. the 11th Conference on Local Computer Networks, Minneapolis, MN. IEEE Computer Society. October 6-8, 1986; 56-62.An investigation of broadband ethernet for image transmission
  • Thoma GR, Cookson JP, Walker FL, Hauser SE. Interfacing optical disks to a document image storage and retrieval system  Journal of Imaging Technology, Vol. 12, No. 5. October 1986; 288-92.Interfacing optical disks to a document image storage and retrieval system
  • Hauser SE, Almeida A. A control and data processing instrument for kidney tubule research  Instrument Society of America Transactions, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1982; 31-5.A control and data processing instrument for kidney tubule research
  • Hauser SE, Cohen SA. An isolated current monitor for iontophoresis  Instrument Society of America Transactions, Vol 15, No. 3, 1976; 43-6.An isolated current monitor for iontophoresis
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