Multimodal Bronchoscopic Video Analysis System for Early Lung Cancer Detection.

William E. Higgins https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4781-9374 Qi Chang Vahid Daneshpajooh Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Multimodal Bronchoscopic Video Analysis System for Early Lung Cancer Detection. 193-200 2025 BIBE https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE66822.2025.00041 conf/bibe/2025 db/conf/bibe/bibe2025.html#ChangDATBH25 streams/conf/bibe

Qi Chang Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins ESFPNet: Efficient Stage-Wise Feature Pyramid on Mix Transformer for Deep Learning-Based Cancer Analysis in Endoscopic Video. 191 2024 August 10 J. Imaging 8 https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging10080191 db/journals/jimaging/jimaging10.html#ChangATBH24 streams/journals/jimaging

Wennan Zhao Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Endobronchial Ultrasound Image Simulation for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy. 318-330 2023 70 IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2022.3190165 db/journals/tbe/tbe70.html#ZhaoATBH23

Qi Chang Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins ESFPNet: efficient deep learning architecture for real-time lesion segmentation in autofluorescence bronchoscopic video. 2023 Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647897 conf/mibam/2023 db/conf/mibam/mibam2023.html#ChangATBH23 Vahid Daneshpajooh Cédric Dumas Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Vascular pattern recognition for narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy. 2023 Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647150 conf/mibam/2023 db/conf/mibam/mibam2023.html#DaneshpajoohDAT23 Yuxuan He William E. Higgins Extemporaneous airway route computation during live bronchoscopic procedures. 2023 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647901 conf/miigp/2023 db/conf/miigp/miigp2023.html#HeH23 Wennan Zhao Trevor Kuhlengel Qi Chang Vahid Daneshpajooh Thomas Schaer Leslie Brewer Rachel Hilliard Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Image-guided radial-probe EBUS bronchoscopy system: live study validation. 2023 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648637 conf/miigp/2023 db/conf/miigp/miigp2023.html#ZhaoKCDSBHATBH23

Qi Chang Rebecca Bascom Jennifer Toth Danish Ahmad William E. Higgins Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy Video Analysis for Lesion Frame Detection. 2023 abs/2303.12198 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.12198 db/journals/corr/corr2303.html#abs-2303-12198

Xiaonan Zang Wennan Zhao Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Multimodal Registration for Image-Guided EBUS Bronchoscopy. 189 2022 8 J. Imaging 7 https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8070189 db/journals/jimaging/jimaging8.html#ZangZTBH22

Vahid Daneshpajooh Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Video analysis framework for lesion detection in narrow band imaging bronchoscopy. 2022 Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2606054 conf/mibam/2022 db/conf/mibam/mibam2022.html#DaneshpajoohATB22 Trevor K. Kuhlengel Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Image-guided bronchoscopy for comprehensive lymph node staging. 2022 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2612203 conf/miigp/2022 db/conf/miigp/miigp2022.html#KuhlengelBH22 Wennan Zhao Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Image-guided system for radial-probe endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy. 2022 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2612104 conf/miigp/2022 db/conf/miigp/miigp2022.html#ZhaoATBH22

Qi Chang Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins ESFPNet: efficient deep learning architecture for real-time lesion segmentation in autofluorescence bronchoscopic video. 2022 abs/2207.07759 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.07759 db/journals/corr/corr2207.html#abs-2207-07759

Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay Vahid Daneshpajooh Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Blood vessel segmentation in narrow band imaging bronchoscopic video. 2021 Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2579930 conf/mibam/2021 db/conf/mibam/mibam2021.html#BandyopadhyayDA21 Qi Chang Patrick D. Byrnes Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Bronchoscopic video synchronization for interactive multimodal inspection of bronchial lesions. 2021 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2579931 conf/miigp/2021 db/conf/miigp/miigp2021.html#ChangBATBH21 Vitalii Vasyliev Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Autonomous planning and guidance for convex-probe endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy. 2021 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2580180 conf/miigp/2021 db/conf/miigp/miigp2021.html#VasylievTBH21 Vahid Daneshpajooh Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay Danish Ahmad Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Super-resolution and deblurring enhancement for narrow band imaging bronchoscopy. 2021 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2579922 conf/miip/2021 db/conf/miip/miip2021.html#DaneshpajoohBAT21 Qi Chang Rebecca Bascom Jennifer Toth Danish Ahmad William E. Higgins Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy Video Analysis for Lesion Frame Detection<sup>*</sup>. 1556-1559 2020 EMBC https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176007 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100447517 conf/embc/2020 db/conf/embc/embc2020.html#ChangBTAH20 Patrick D. Byrnes William E. Higgins MULTI-FRAME CT-VIDEO REGISTRATION FOR 3D AIRWAY-WALL ANALYSIS. 1638-1641 2020 ISBI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI45749.2020.9098472 conf/isbi/2020 db/conf/isbi/isbi2020.html#ByrnesH20 Trevor K. Kuhlengel William E. Higgins Multi-destination procedure planning for comprehensive lymph node staging bronchoscopy. 113151T 2020 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2542851 conf/miigp/2020 db/conf/miigp/miigp2020.html#KuhlengelH20 Wennan Zhao Rebecca Bascom Jennifer Toth William E. Higgins Virtual radial-probe endobronchial ultrasound for image-guided bronchoscopy. 113151U 2020 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2543063 conf/miigp/2020 db/conf/miigp/miigp2020.html#ZhaoBTH20

Xiaonan Zang Jason D. Gibbs Ronnarit Cheirsilp Patrick D. Byrnes Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Optimal route planning for image-guided EBUS bronchoscopy. 2019 112 Comput. Biol. Medicine https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.103361 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q92288623 db/journals/cbm/cbm112.html#ZangGCBTBH19

Patrick D. Byrnes William E. Higgins Efficient Bronchoscopic Video Summarization. 848-863 2019 66 IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2018.2859322 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90491066 db/journals/tbe/tbe66.html#ByrnesH19

Trevor K. Kuhlengel William E. Higgins Bronchoscopic procedure planning for systematic lymph node analysis. 109511O 2019 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2505788 conf/miigp/2019 db/conf/miigp/miigp2019.html#KuhlengelH19 Matthew I. McTaggart William E. Higgins Robust video-frame classification for bronchoscopy. 109511Q 2019 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2507290 conf/miigp/2019 db/conf/miigp/miigp2019.html#McTaggartH19 Wennan Zhao Rebecca Bascom Jennifer Toth William E. Higgins Guidance system development for radial-probe endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy. 109511P 2019 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2505827 conf/miigp/2019 db/conf/miigp/miigp2019.html#ZhaoBTH19 William E. Higgins Xiaonan Zang Ronnarit Cheirsilp Patrick D. Byrnes Trevor K. Kuhlengel Jennifer Toth Rebecca Bascom Optimal multimodal virtual bronchoscopy for convex-probe endobronchial ultrasound. 1057618 2018 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292099 conf/miigp/2018 db/conf/miigp/miigp2018.html#HigginsZCBKTB18 Patrick D. Byrnes William E. Higgins A system for endobronchial video analysis. 101351Q 2017 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254975 conf/miigp/2017 db/conf/miigp/miigp2017.html#ByrnesH17

Xiaonan Zang Rebecca Bascom Christopher Gilbert Jennifer Toth William E. Higgins Methods for 2-D and 3-D Endobronchial Ultrasound Image Segmentation. 1426-1439 2016 63 IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2015.2494838 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37186610 db/journals/tbe/tbe63.html#ZangBGTH16

Patrick D. Byrnes William E. Higgins Method for endobronchial video parsing. 97861B 2016 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2208939 conf/miigp/2016 db/conf/miigp/miigp2016.html#ByrnesH16 William E. Higgins Xiaonan Zang Ronnarit Cheirsilp Patrick D. Byrnes Trevor Kuhlengel Rebecca Bascom Jennifer Toth Image-guided endobronchial ultrasound. 97862G 2016 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2208771 conf/miigp/2016 db/conf/miigp/miigp2016.html#HigginsZCBKBT16 Ronnarit Cheirsilp Xiaonan Zang Rebecca Bascom Thomas W. Allen Rickhesvar P. M. Mahraj William E. Higgins Deformable image registration for multimodal lung-cancer staging. 97843Z 2016 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2208482 conf/miip/2016 db/conf/miip/miip2016.html#CheirsilpZBAMH16

Ronnarit Cheirsilp Rebecca Bascom Thomas W. Allen William E. Higgins Thoracic cavity definition for 3D PET/CT analysis and visualization. 222-238 2015 62 Comput. Biol. Medicine https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.04.018 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q35599148 db/journals/cbm/cbm62.html#CheirsilpBAH15

Rahul Khare Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Hands-Free System for Bronchoscopy Planning and Guidance. 2794-2811 2015 62 IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 12 https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2015.2401514 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41443371 db/journals/tbe/tbe62.html#KhareBH15

William E. Higgins Ronnarit Cheirsilp Xiaonan Zang Patrick D. Byrnes Multimodal system for the planning and guidance of bronchoscopy. 941508 2015 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077242 conf/miigp/2015 db/conf/miigp/miigp2015.html#HigginsCZB15

Jason D. Gibbs Michael W. Graham Rebecca Bascom Duane C. Cornish Rahul Khare William E. Higgins Optimal Procedure Planning and Guidance System for Peripheral Bronchoscopy. 638-657 2014 61 IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2013.2285627 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41443360 db/journals/tbe/tbe61.html#GibbsGBCKH14

Ronnarit Cheirsilp Rebecca Bascom Thomas W. Allen William E. Higgins 3D intrathoracic region definition and its application to PET-CT analysis. 90352J 2014 Computer-Aided Diagnosis https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2037076 conf/micad/2014 db/conf/micad/micad2014.html#CheirsilpBAH14 Patrick D. Byrnes William E. Higgins Construction of a multimodal CT-video chest model. 903607 2014 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041609 conf/miigp/2014 db/conf/miigp/miigp2014.html#ByrnesH14

Scott A. Merritt Rahul Khare Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Interactive CT-Video Registration for the Continuous Guidance of Bronchoscopy. 1376-1396 2013 32 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2013.2252361 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37547881 db/journals/tmi/tmi32.html#MerrittKBH13

Ronnarit Cheirsilp William E. Higgins Multimodal 3D PET/CT system for bronchoscopic procedure planning. 86702X 2013 Computer-Aided Diagnosis https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004571 conf/micad/2013 db/conf/micad/micad2013.html#CheirsilpH13 Rahul Khare Rebecca Bascom William E. Higgins Technician-free system for image-guided bronchoscopy. 867101 2013 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004880 conf/miigp/2013 db/conf/miigp/miigp2013.html#KhareBH13

Michael W. Graham Jason D. Gibbs William E. Higgins Computer-Based Route-Definition System for Peripheral Bronchoscopy. 307-317 2012 25 J. Digit. Imaging 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-011-9433-7 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42594126 db/journals/jdi/jdi25.html#GrahamGH12

Duane C. Cornish William E. Higgins Bronchoscopy guidance system based on bronchoscope-motion measurements. 83161G 2012 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910914 conf/miigp/2012 db/conf/miigp/miigp2012.html#CornishH12 Jason D. Gibbs Pinyo Taeprasartsit William E. Higgins Planning and visualization methods for effective bronchoscopic target localization. 83161H 2012 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910913 conf/miigp/2012 db/conf/miigp/miigp2012.html#GibbsTH12 Rahul Khare William E. Higgins Optimization of CT-video registration for image-guided bronchoscopy. 831636 2012 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910911 conf/miigp/2012 db/conf/miigp/miigp2012.html#KhareH12

Kongkuo Lu Pinyo Taeprasartsit Rebecca Bascom Rickhesvar P. M. Mahraj William E. Higgins Automatic definition of the central-chest lymph-node stations. 539-555 2011 6 Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-011-0547-7 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q35036759 db/journals/cars/cars6.html#LuTBMH11

Kongkuo Lu William E. Higgins Segmentation of the central-chest lymph nodes in 3D MDCT images. 780-789 2011 41 Comput. Biol. Medicine 9 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.014 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q35166893 db/journals/cbm/cbm41.html#LuH11

Duane C. Cornish William E. Higgins Real-time method for bronchoscope motion measurement and tracking. 79640M 2011 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873086 conf/miigp/2011 db/conf/miigp/miigp2011.html#CornishH11 Rahul Khare William E. Higgins Image-based global registration system for bronchoscopy guidance. 79640I 2011 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873085 conf/miigp/2011 db/conf/miigp/miigp2011.html#KhareH11 Brett Flood Lav Rai William E. Higgins System for robust bronchoscopic video distortion correction. 79641L 2011 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876657 conf/miigp/2011 db/conf/miigp/miigp2011.html#FloodRH11 Pinyo Taeprasartsit William E. Higgins Robust method for extracting the pulmonary vascular trees from 3D MDCT images. 796237 2011 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876721 conf/miip/2011 db/conf/miip/miip2011.html#TaeprasartsitH11

Kun-Chang Yu Jason D. Gibbs Michael W. Graham William E. Higgins Image-Based Reporting for Bronchoscopy. 39-50 2010 23 J. Digit. Imaging 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-008-9170-8 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42626738 db/journals/jdi/jdi23.html#YuGGH10

Michael W. Graham Jason D. Gibbs Duane C. Cornish William E. Higgins Robust 3-D Airway Tree Segmentation for Image-Guided Peripheral Bronchoscopy. 982-997 2010 29 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2009.2035813 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51711401 db/journals/tmi/tmi29.html#GrahamGCH10

Kongkuo Lu William E. Higgins Semi-automatic central-chest lymph-node definition from 3D MDCT images. 76240T 2010 Computer-Aided Diagnosis https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839515 conf/micad/2010 db/conf/micad/micad2010.html#LuH10 Rahul Khare William E. Higgins Toward image-based global registration for bronchoscopy guidance. 762510 2010 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839479 conf/miigp/2010 db/conf/miigp/miigp2010.html#KhareH10 Pinyo Taeprasartsit William E. Higgins Robust extraction of the aorta and pulmonary artery from 3D MDCT image data. 76230H 2010 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839478 conf/miip/2010 db/conf/miip/miip2010.html#TaeprasartsitH10

Jason D. Gibbs Michael W. Graham William E. Higgins 3D MDCT-based system for planning peripheral bronchoscopic procedures. 266-279 2009 39 Comput. Biol. Medicine 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.12.012 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30487292 db/journals/cbm/cbm39.html#GibbsGH09

Kongkuo Lu Rebecca Bascom Rickhesvar P. M. Mahraj William E. Higgins Quantitative analysis of the central-chest lymph nodes based on 3D MDCT image data. 72600U 2009 Computer-Aided Diagnosis https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811040 conf/micad/2009 db/conf/micad/micad2009.html#LuBMH09 Rahul Khare Kun-Chang Yu William E. Higgins Improved navigation for image-guided bronchoscopy. 72612J 2009 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811142 conf/miigp/2009 db/conf/miigp/miigp2009.html#KhareYH09 Lav Rai William E. Higgins Fusion of MDCT-based endoluminal renderings and endoscopic video. 726107 2009 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.808228 conf/miigp/2009 db/conf/miigp/miigp2009.html#RaiH09 Pinyo Taeprasartsit William E. Higgins System for definition of the central-chest vasculature. 725918 2009 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811143 conf/miip/2009 db/conf/miip/miip2009.html#TaeprasartsitH09

Lav Rai James P. Helferty William E. Higgins Combined video tracking and image-video registration for continuous bronchoscopic guidance. 315-329 2008 3 Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-008-0241-6 db/journals/cars/cars3.html#RaiHH08

William E. Higgins James P. Helferty Kongkuo Lu Scott A. Merritt Lav Rai Kun-Chang Yu 3D CT-Video Fusion for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy. 159-173 2008 32 Comput. Medical Imaging Graph. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.11.001 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36535627 db/journals/cmig/cmig32.html#HigginsHLMRY08

William E. Higgins James P. Helferty Kongkuo Lu Scott A. Merritt Lav Rai Kun-Chang Yu Corrigendum to "3D CT-video fusion for image-guided bronchoscopy" [Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 32 (2008) 159-173]. 732 2008 32 Comput. Medical Imaging Graph. 8 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.08.001 db/journals/cmig/cmig32.html#HigginsHLMRY08a

Kongkuo Lu Scott A. Merritt William E. Higgins Extraction and visualization of the central chest lymph-node stations. 69151B 2008 Computer-Aided Diagnosis https://doi.org/10.1117/12.768691 conf/micad/2008 db/conf/micad/micad2008.html#LuMH08 Lav Rai William E. Higgins Continuous endoscopic guidance via interleaved video tracking and image-video registration. 69182R 2008 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.768702 conf/miigp/2008 db/conf/miigp/miigp2008.html#RaiH08a Lav Rai William E. Higgins Method for radiometric calibration of an endoscope's camera and light source. 691813 2008 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.768687 conf/miigp/2008 db/conf/miigp/miigp2008.html#RaiH08 Michael W. Graham Jason D. Gibbs William E. Higgins Robust system for human airway-tree segmentation. 69141J 2008 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.768706 conf/miip/2008 db/conf/miip/miip2008.html#GrahamGH08

Kongkuo Lu William E. Higgins Interactive segmentation based on the live wire for 3D CT chest image analysis. 151-167 2007 2 Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-007-0129-x db/journals/cars/cars2.html#LuH07

Kun-Chang Yu Erik L. Ritman William E. Higgins System for the analysis and visualization of large 3D anatomical trees. 1802-1820 2007 37 Comput. Biol. Medicine 12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.06.005 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39806801 db/journals/cbm/cbm37.html#YuRH07

James P. Helferty Anthony J. Sherbondy Atilla P. Kiraly William E. Higgins Computer-based system for the virtual-endoscopic guidance of bronchoscopy. 171-187 2007 108 Comput. Vis. Image Underst. 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2006.10.010 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42793793 db/journals/cviu/cviu108.html#HelfertySKH07

Jason D. Gibbs William E. Higgins 3D path planning and extension for endoscopic guidance. 65091K 2007 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.708513 conf/miigp/2007 db/conf/miigp/miigp2007.html#GibbsH07 Pinyo Taeprasartsit William E. Higgins Method for extracting the aorta from 3D CT images. 65120J 2007 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.708522 conf/miip/2007 db/conf/miip/miip2007.html#TaeprasartsitH07 Lav Rai Scott A. Merritt William E. Higgins Real-time Image-Based Guidance Method for Lung-Cancer Assessment. 2437-2444 2006 conf/cvpr/2006 CVPR (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2006.238 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPR.2006.238 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2006.html#RaiMH06 Michael W. Graham William E. Higgins Optimal graph-theoretic approach to 3D anatomical tree matching. 109-112 2006 conf/isbi/2006 ISBI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2006.1624864 db/conf/isbi/isbi2006.html#GrahamH06 Lav Rai William E. Higgins Image-based rendering method for mapping endoscopic video onto CT-based endoluminal views. 614103 2006 Image-Guided Procedures https://doi.org/10.1117/12.651717 conf/miigp/2006 db/conf/miigp/miigp2006.html#RaiH06 Kongkuo Lu William E. Higgins Improved 3D live-wire method with application to 3D CT chest image analysis. 61440L 2006 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.651723 conf/miip/2006 db/conf/miip/miip2006.html#LuH06 Michael W. Graham William E. Higgins Globally optimal model-based matching of anatomical trees. 614415 2006 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.651719 conf/miip/2006 db/conf/miip/miip2006.html#GrahamH06 James P. Helferty Anthony J. Sherbondy Atilla P. Kiraly William E. Higgins System for Live Virtual-Endoscopic Guidance of Bronchoscopy. 68 2005 CVPR Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2005.538 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPR.2005.538 conf/cvpr/2005w db/conf/cvpr/cvprw2005.html#HelfertySKH05

Jerome Zhengrong Liang William E. Higgins Ronald M. Summers Hiro Yoshida Introduction to the special section on virtual endoscopy. 1333-1334 2004 23 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2004.837682 db/journals/tmi/tmi23.html#LiangHSY04

Atilla P. Kiraly James P. Helferty Eric A. Hoffman Geoffrey McLennan William E. Higgins Three-dimensional path planning for virtual bronchoscopy. 1365-1379 2004 23 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2004.829332 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51983915 db/journals/tmi/tmi23.html#KiralyHHMH04

Kun-Chang Yu William E. Higgins Erik L. Ritman 3D Model-Based Vascular Tree Analysis Using Differential Geometry. 177-180 2004 conf/isbi/2004 ISBI db/conf/isbi/isbi2004.html#YuHR04 https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2004.1398503

Shu-Yen Wan William E. Higgins Symmetric region growing. 1007-1015 2003 12 IEEE Trans. Image Process. 9 https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2003.815258 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51623705 db/journals/tip/tip12.html#WanH03

Shu-Yen Wan Erik L. Ritman William E. Higgins Multi-generational analysis and visualization of the vascular tree in 3D micro-CT images. 55-71 2002 32 Comput. Biol. Medicine 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4825(01)00034-8 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39595724 db/journals/cbm/cbm32.html#WanRH02

Atilla P. Kiraly William E. Higgins Analysis of branching tubular structures in 3D digital images. 333-336 2002 conf/icip/2002 ICIP (2) db/conf/icip/icip2002-2.html#KiralyH02 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2002.1039955 William E. Higgins James P. Helferty Combined endoscopic video tracking and virtual 3D CT registration for surgical guidance. 961-964 2002 conf/icip/2002 ICIP (2) db/conf/icip/icip2002-2.html#HigginsH02 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2002.1040112

James P. Helferty Chao Zhang Geoffrey McLennan William E. Higgins Videoendoscopic Distortion Correction and Its Application to Virtual Guidance of Endoscopy. 605-617 2001 20 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 7 db/journals/tmi/tmi20.html#HelfertyZMH01 https://doi.org/10.1109/42.932745 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q74241822

Janice Z. Turlington William E. Higgins New Techniques for Efficient Sliding Thin-Slab Volume Visualization. 823-835 2001 20 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 8 db/journals/tmi/tmi20.html#TurlingtonH01 https://doi.org/10.1109/42.938250 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51642704

James P. Helferty Anthony J. Sherbondy Atilla Peter Kiraly Janice Z. Turlington Eric A. Hoffman Geoffrey McLennan William E. Higgins Image-guided endoscopy for lung-cancer assessment. 307-310 2001 ICIP (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2001.958489 conf/icip/2001 db/conf/icip/icip2001-2.html#HelfertySKTHMH01 William E. Higgins James P. Helferty Technique for registering 3D virtual CT images to endoscopic video. 893-896 2001 conf/icip/2001 ICIP (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2001.958638 db/conf/icip/icip2001-2.html#HigginsH01 Shu-Yen Wan Erik Leo Ritman William E. Higgins Multigenerational analysis and visualization of large 3D vascular images. 2001 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.431155 conf/miip/2001 db/conf/miip/miip2001.html#WanRH01

Joseph M. Reinhardt Andrien J. Wang Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins Cue-Based Segmentation of 4D Cardiac Image Sequences. 251-262 2000 77 Comput. Vis. Image Underst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1006/cviu.1999.0818 db/journals/cviu/cviu77.html#ReinhardtWWH00

Shu-Yen Wan Atilla P. Kiraly Erik L. Ritman William E. Higgins Extraction of the hepatic vascularture in rats using 3D micro-CT images. 964-971 2000 19 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 9 db/journals/tmi/tmi19.html#WanKRH00 https://doi.org/10.1109/42.887843 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q48545686

Shu-Yen Wan William E. Higgins Symmetric Region Growing. 2000 conf/icip/2000 ICIP db/conf/icip/icip2000.html#WanH00 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2000.899236 96-99 Chao Zhang James P. Helferty Geoffrey McLennan William E. Higgins Nonlinear Distortion Correction in Endoscopic Video Images. 2000 conf/icip/2000 ICIP db/conf/icip/icip2000.html#ZhangHMH00 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2000.899441 439-442

Krishnan Ramaswamy William E. Higgins Interactive dynamic navigation for virtual endoscopy. 303-331 1999 29 Comput. Biol. Medicine 5 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4825(99)00012-8 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51646194 db/journals/cbm/cbm29.html#RamaswamyH99

Michael W. Hansen William E. Higgins Watershed-based maximum-homogeneity filtering. 982-988 1999 8 IEEE Trans. Image Process. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/83.772247 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80680301 db/journals/tip/tip8.html#HansenH99

Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins An Algorithm for Designing Multiple Gabor Flters for Segmenting Multi-Textured Images. 333-337 1998 conf/icip/1998 ICIP (3) db/conf/icip/icip1998-3.html#WeldonH98

William E. Higgins Roderick David Swift Distributed system for processing 3D medical images. 97-115 1997 27 Comput. Biol. Medicine 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4825(96)00042-X https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q73355048 db/journals/cbm/cbm27.html#HigginsS97

Roderick David Swift Krishnan Ramaswamy William E. Higgins Adaptive Axes-Generation Algorithm for 3D Tubular Structures. 136-139 1997 conf/icip/1997 ICIP (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1997.638692 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIP.1997.638692 db/conf/icip/icip1997-2.html#SwiftRH97

Joseph M. Reinhardt William E. Higgins Comparison Between the Morphological Skeleton and Morphological Shape Decomposition. 951-957 1996 18 IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 9 https://doi.org/10.1109/34.537351 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/34.537351 db/journals/pami/pami18.html#ReinhardtH96

Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins Dennis F. Dunn Efficient Gabor filter design for texture segmentation. 2005-2015 1996 29 Pattern Recognit. 12 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00047-7 db/journals/pr/pr29.html#WeldonHD96

Joseph M. Reinhardt William E. Higgins Efficient morphological shape representation. 89-101 1996 5 IEEE Trans. Image Process. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/83.481673 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q52313585 db/journals/tip/tip5.html#ReinhardtH96

William E. Higgins Wolfgang J. T. Spyra Ronald A. Karwoski Erik L. Ritman System for analyzing high-resolution three-dimensional coronary angiograms. 377-385 1996 15 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/42.500146 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80540423 db/journals/tmi/tmi15.html#HigginsSKR96

William E. Higgins Christopher J. Orlick Brian E. Ledell Nonlinear filtering approach to 3-D gray-scale image interpolation. 580-587 1996 15 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/42.511761 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80540465 db/journals/tmi/tmi15.html#HigginsOL96

Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins Design of multiple Gabor filters for texture segmentation. 2243-2246 1996 ICASSP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1996.545868 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1996.545868 conf/icassp/1996 db/conf/icassp/icassp1996.html#WeldonH96 Dennis F. Dunn Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins Extracting halftones from printed documents using texture analysis. 225-228 1996 conf/icip/1996 ICIP (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1996.560736 db/conf/icip/icip1996-2.html#DunnWH96 Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins Integrated approach to texture segmentation using multiple Gabor filters. 955-958 1996 ICIP (3) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1996.560980 conf/icip/1996 db/conf/icip/icip1996-3.html#WeldonH96 William E. Higgins Roderick David Swift Distributed system for processing multidimensional radiological images. 1996 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237994 conf/miip/1996 db/conf/miip/miip1996.html#HigginsS96 Krishnan Ramaswamy William E. Higgins Endoscopic exploration and measurement in 3D radiological images. 1996 Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237954 conf/miip/1996 db/conf/miip/miip1996.html#RamaswamyH96

Dennis F. Dunn William E. Higgins Optimal Gabor filters for texture segmentation. 947-964 1995 5 IEEE Trans. Image Process. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/83.392336 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q52353577 db/journals/tip/tip4.html#DunnH95

Michael W. Hansen William E. Higgins Image enhancement using watershed-based maximum homogeneity filtering. 482-485 1995 conf/icip/1995 ICIP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1995.529751 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIP.1995.529751 db/conf/icip/icip1995-1.html#HansenH95 Joseph M. Reinhardt William E. Higgins Strategy for shape-based image analysis. 502-505 1995 conf/icip/1995 ICIP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1995.529756 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIP.1995.529756 db/conf/icip/icip1995-1.html#ReinhardtH95

Dennis F. Dunn William E. Higgins Joseph Wakeley Texture Segmentation using 2-D Gabor Elementary Functions. 130-149 1994 16 IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/34.273736 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/34.273736 db/journals/pami/pami16.html#DunnHW94

William E. Higgins Chaoming Hsu Edge detection using two-dimensional local structure information. 277-294 1994 27 Pattern Recognit. 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-3203(94)90059-0 db/journals/pr/pr27.html#HigginsH94

Joseph M. Reinhardt William E. Higgins Shape Representation: Comparison between the Morphological Skeleton and Morphological Shape Decomposition. 91-95 1994 conf/icip/1994 ICIP (2) db/conf/icip/icip1994-2.html#ReinhardtH94 Michael W. Hansen William E. Higgins Watershed-Driven Relaxation Labeling for Image Segmentation. 460-464 1994 conf/icip/1994 ICIP (3) db/conf/icip/icip1994-3.html#HansenH94 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1994.413764 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIP.1994.413764 Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins Multiscale Rician Approach to Gabor Filter Design for Texture Segmentation. 620-624 1994 conf/icip/1994 ICIP (2) db/conf/icip/icip1994-2.html#WeldonH94 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1994.413645 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIP.1994.413645 Joseph M. Reinhardt William E. Higgins Automatic Generation of Image-Segmentation Processes. 791-795 1994 conf/icip/1994 ICIP (3) db/conf/icip/icip1994-3.html#ReinhardtH94a https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.1994.413780 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIP.1994.413780 Thomas P. Weldon William E. Higgins Dennis F. Dunn Efficient Gabor Filter Design Using Rician Output Statistics. 25-28 1994 conf/iscas/1994 ISCAS db/conf/iscas/iscas1994-3.html#WeldonHD94 https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.1994.409092 William E. Higgins Joseph M. Reinhardt Werner L. Sharp Semiautomatic construction of 3D medical image-segmentation processes. 1994 VBC https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185216 conf/vbc/1994 db/conf/vbc/vbc1994.html#HigginsRS94

William E. Higgins C. Morice Erik L. Ritman Shape-based interpolation of tree-like structures in three-dimensional images. 439-450 1993 12 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/42.241871 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80546075 db/journals/tmi/tmi12.html#HigginsMR93

Dennis F. Dunn William E. Higgins Optimal Gabor-filter design for texture segmentation. 37-40 1993 ICASSP (5) https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1993.319741 conf/icassp/1993 db/conf/icassp/icassp1993.html#DunnH93 Joseph M. Reinhardt William E. Higgins Toward efficient morphological shape representation. 125-128 1993 ICASSP (5) https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1993.319763 conf/icassp/1993 db/conf/icassp/icassp1993.html#ReinhardtH93 Joseph M. Reinhardt William E. Higgins Flexible search-based approach for morphological shape decomposition. 1993 VCIP https://doi.org/10.1117/12.157901 conf/vcip/1993 db/conf/vcip/vcip1993.html#ReinhardtH93 Gopal Sundaramoorthy William E. Higgins John Hoford Eric A. Hoffman Graphical user interface system for automatic 3-D medical image analysis. 421-428 1992 CBMS https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.1992.244920 conf/cbms/1992 db/conf/cbms/cbms1992.html#SundaramoorthyHHH92 Dennis F. Dunn William E. Higgins Joseph Wakeley 2D analysis of Gabor-filter output signatures for texture segmentation. 65-68 1992 ICASSP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226275 conf/icassp/1992 db/conf/icassp/icassp1992.html#DunnHW92

William E. Higgins A flexible implementation of maximum-homogeneity filtering for 2-D and 3-D images. 2325-2331 1991 39 IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 10 https://doi.org/10.1109/78.91188 db/journals/tsp/tsp39.html#Higgins91

William E. Higgins C. M. Hsu Edge detection using 2-D local structural information. 2549-2552 1991 ICASSP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1991.150921 conf/icassp/1991 db/conf/icassp/icassp1991.html#HigginsH91 William E. Higgins C. Morice Erik L. Ritman New shape-based interpolation technique for three-dimensional images. 1841-1844 1990 ICASSP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1990.115849 conf/icassp/1990 db/conf/icassp/icassp1990.html#HigginsMR90

William E. Higgins David C. Munson Jr. An algorithm for computing general integer-order Hankel transforms. 86-97 1987 35 IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TASSP.1987.1165032 db/journals/tsp/tsp35.html#HigginsM87

William E. Higgins Tomographic Image Reconstruction via a Hankel Transform Approach and a Low-Noise Digital Filter Structure (Processing, Fourier-Bussel, Roundoff Errors) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA 1984 https://hdl.handle.net/2142/69291 Danish Ahmad Thomas W. Allen Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay Rebecca Bascom Leslie Brewer Patrick D. Byrnes Qi Chang Ronnarit Cheirsilp Duane C. Cornish Vahid Daneshpajooh Cédric Dumas Dennis F. Dunn Brett Flood Jason D. Gibbs Christopher Gilbert Michael W. Graham Michael W. Hansen Yuxuan He James P. Helferty Rachel Hilliard Eric A. Hoffman John Hoford C. M. Hsu Chaoming Hsu Ronald A. Karwoski Rahul Khare Atilla P. KiralyAtilla Peter Kiraly Trevor KuhlengelTrevor K. Kuhlengel Brian E. Ledell Zhengrong LiangJerome Zhengrong Liang Kongkuo Lu Rickhesvar P. M. Mahraj Geoffrey McLennan Matthew I. McTaggart Scott A. Merritt C. Morice David C. Munson Jr. Christopher J. Orlick Lav Rai Krishnan Ramaswamy Joseph M. Reinhardt Erik L. RitmanErik Leo Ritman Thomas Schaer Werner L. Sharp Anthony J. Sherbondy Wolfgang J. T. Spyra Ronald M. Summers Gopal Sundaramoorthy Roderick David Swift Pinyo Taeprasartsit Jennifer Toth Janice Z. Turlington Vitalii Vasyliev Joseph Wakeley Shu-Yen Wan Andrien J. Wang Thomas P. Weldon Hiro Yoshida Kun-Chang Yu Xiaonan Zang Chao Zhang Wennan Zhao