Arthur Ardeshir Goshtasby
Professor


Department of Computer Science and Engineering
303 Russ Engineering Center
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435

Telephone: 937-775-5170
Fax: 937-775-5133
Email: arthur.goshtasby@wright.edu

Education

  • B.E. Electronics Engineering, University of Tokyo, March 1974.
  • M.S. Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Dec. 1975.
  • Ph.D. Computer Science, Michigan State University, Aug. 1983.

 

Journal Special Issues Edited
  1. A Special Issue of Pattern Recognition on Image Registration, Pergamon Press, with Jacqueline Lemoigne, NASA Goddard, Jan. 1999.
  2. A Special Issue of Computer Vision and Image Understanding on Volume Image Analysis, with Milan Sonka of University of Iowa and Jay Udupa of University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 2000.
  3. A Special Issue of Computer Vision and Image Understanding on Nonrigid Image Registration, with Demetri Terzopoulos of University of Toronto, Larry Staib of Yale University, and Colin Studholme of University of California, San Francisco, vol. 89, 2003.
  4. A Special Issue of Information Fusion on Image Fusion, with Stavri Nikolov of University of Bristol, UK, vol. 8, 2007.

 

Journal Publications

1.     A. Goshtasby, S. Gage, and J. Bartholic, "A Two-Stage Cross-Correlation Approach to Template Matching," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 6, no. 3, 1984, pp. 374-378.

2.     A. Goshtasby and G. Stockman "Point Pattern Matching Using Convex Hull Edges," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 15, no. 5, 1985, pp. 631-637.

3.     A. Goshtasby, "Description and Discrimination of Planar Shapes Using Shape Matrices," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 7, no. 6, 1985, pp. 738-743.

4.     A. Goshtasby, "Template Matching in Rotated Images," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 7, no. 3, 1985, pp. 338-344.

5.     A. Goshtasby, G. Stockman, and C. Page, "A Region-Based Approach to Digital Image Registration with Subpixel Accuracy," IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing. vol. 24, no. 3, 1986, pp. 390-399.

6.     A. Goshtasby, "Piecewise Linear Mapping Functions for Image Registration," Pattern Recognition, vol. 9, no.6, 1986, pp. 459-466.

7.     A. Goshtasby, "Registration of Images with Geometric Distortions," IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 26, no. 1, 1988, pp. 60-64.

8.     A. Goshtasby and R. Ehrich, "Contextual Word Recognition Using Probabilistic Relaxation Labeling Process," Pattern Recognition, vol. 21, no. 5, 1988, pp. 455-462.

9.     A. Goshtasby, "Piecewise Cubic Mapping Functions for Image Registration," Pattern Recognition, vol. 20, no. 5, 1987, pp. 525-533.

10.  A. Goshtasby, "Correction of Image Deformation from Lens Distortion Using Bezier Patches," Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, vol. 47, 1989, pp. 385-394.

11.  A. Goshtasby, "Image Registration by Local Approximation Methods," Image and Vision Computing. vol. 6, no. 4, 1988, pp. 255-261.

12.  F. Cheng and A. Goshtasby, "A Parallel B-spline Surface Fitting Algorithm," ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 8, no. 1, 1989, pp. 41-50.

13.  A. Goshtasby, F. Cheng, and B. Barsky, "B-Spline Curves and Surfaces Viewed as Digital Filters," Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, vol. 52, Nov. 1990, pp. 264-275.

14.  A. Goshtasby, "Gaussian Decomposition of Two-Dimensional Shapes: A Unified Representation for CAD and Vision Applications." Pattern Recognition, vol. 25, no. 5, 1992, pp. 463-472.

15.  A. Goshtasby, D. Turner, and L. Ackerman, "Matching of Tomographic Image Slices," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol. 11, no. 4, Dec. 1992, pp. 507-516.

16.  A. Goshtasby, "Parametric Representation of Digital Shapes by Gaussian Functions," Computer Aided Design. vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 1992, pp. 659-665.

17.  A. Goshtasby and W. O'Neill, "Surface Fitting to Scattered Data by a Sum of Gaussians," Computer-Aided Geometric Design, vol. 10, 1993, pp. 143-156.

18.  A. Goshtasby, "Design and Recovery of 2-D and 3-D Shapes Using Rational Gaussian Curves and Surfaces," Int. J. Computer Vision, vol. 10, no. 3, 1993, pp. 233-256.

19.  A. Goshtasby and W. Gruver, "Design of a Single-Lens Stereo Camera System," Pattern Recognition, vol. 26, no. 6, 1993, pp. 923-938.

20.  A. Goshtasby, "Recovering Scene Structures from Scattered Surface Points," Pattern Recognition, vol. 26, no. 10, 1993, pp. 1543-1548.

21.  A. Goshtasby, "On Edge Focusing," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 12, no. 4, 1994, pp. 247-256.

22.  A. Goshtasby, "Geometric Modeling Using Rational Gaussian Curves and Surfaces," Computer-Aided Design, May 1995, pp. 363-375

23.  A. Goshtasby and H-L Shyu, "Edge Detection by Curve Fitting," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 13, no. 3, 1995, pp. 169-177.

24.  A. Goshtasby and W. O'Neill, "Curve Fitting by a Sum of Gaussians," Graphical Models and Image Processing, vol. 56, no. 4, 1994, pp. 281-288.

25.  A. Goshtasby and D. A. Turner, "Segmentation of Cardiac Cine MR Images for Extraction of Right and Left Ventricular Chambers," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol. 14, no. 1, 1995, pp. 56-64.

26.  Z. Yue, A. Goshtasby, and L. V. Ackerman,"Automatic Detection of Rib Borders in Chest Radiographs," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 525-536, 1995.

27.  A. Goshtasby and D. A. Turner, "Fusion of Short-Axis and Long-Axis Cardiac MR Images," Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 77-87, 1996.

28.  M. Jackowski, A. Goshtasby, S. Bines, D. Roseman, C. Yu, "Correcting the Geometry and Color of Digital Images," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1152-1158, 1997.

29.  L. Xu, M. Jackowski, A. Goshtasby, C. Yu, D. Roseman, and S. Bines, "Segmentation of Skin Cancer Images," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 65-74, 1999.

30.  A. Goshtasby, "Three-Dimensional Model Contruction from Multi-View Range Images: Survey with New Results," Pattern Recognition, vol. 31, no. 11, 1998, pp. 1705-1714.

31.  A. Goshtasby, S. Nambala, W. deRijk, and S. Campbell, "A System for Digital Construction of Dental Casts," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 664-674, Oct. 1997.

32.  A. Goshtasby and J. Le Moigne, "Image Registration: An Introduction", Pattern Recognition, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-2, 1999.

33.  J. Cai and A. Goshtasby, "Detecting Human Faces in Color Images," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 18, pp. 63-75, 1999.

34.  A. Goshtasby, M. Sonka, J. Udupa, "Analysis of Volumetric Images," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 77, pp. 79-83, 2000.

35.  L. Ding and A. Goshtasby, "On the Canny edge detector," Pattern Recognition, vol. 34, 2001, 721-725.

36.  A. Goshtasby, "Grouping and Parametrizing Irregularly Spaced Points for Curve Fitting," ACM Trans. Graphics, vol. 19, no. 3, 2000, 185-203.

37.  L. Ding, A. Goshtasby, and M. Satter, "Volume Image Registration by Template Matching," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 19, no. 12, 2001, 821-832.

38.  M. Jackowski, M. Satter, and A. Goshtasby, "Approximating Digital 3-D Shapes by Rational Gaussian Surfaces," IEEE Trans. Visualization and Graphics, vol. 9, no. 1, 2003, 56-69.

39.  A. Goshtasby, "Parametric Circles and Sphere," Computer-Aided Design, vol. 35, April 2003, 487-494.

40.  J. Albamont and A. Goshtasby, "A Range Scanner with a Virtual Laser," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 21, 2003, 271-284.

41.  A. Goshtasby, L. Staib, C. Studholme, and D. Terzopoulos, "Nonrigid Image Registration," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 89, no. 2/3, 2003, 109-113.

42.  A. Goshtasby, "A Weighted-Mean Approach to Smooth Parametric Representation of Polygon Meshes," The Visual Computer, vol. 20, no. 5, 2004, 344-359.

43.  A. Goshtasby, "Fusion of Multi-Exposure Images," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 23, 2005, pp. 611-618.

44.  A. Goshtasby, "Plus curves and surfaces," The Visual Computer, vol. 21, Feb. 2005, 4-16.

45.  L. Zagorchev and A. Goshtasby, "A comparative study of transformation functions for nonrigid image registration," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 3, 2006, 529-538.

46.  L. Zagorchev and A. Goshtasby, "A paintbrush laser range scanner," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 101, 2006, 65-86.

47.  A. Goshtasby and S. Nikolov, "Image fusion: Advances in the state of the art," Information Fusion, vol. 8, 2007, pp. 114- 118.

48.  E. Kocak, O. Al-Saif, M. Satter, M. Bloomston, S. F. Abdessalam, J. Mantil, A. Goshtasby, and E. W. Martin, "Image Guidance during abdominal exploration for recurrent colorectal cancer," Annals of Surgical Ongology, vol. 14, no. 2, 2007, 405-510.

49.  L. Zagorchev, A. Goshtasby, and M. Satter, "R-snakes," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 25, 2007, 945-959.

  1. A. Goshtasby, Surface approximation to scattered lines, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, vol. 4, nos. 1–4, 2007, pp. 277–286.
  2. A. Goshtasby and M. Satter, "An adaptive window mechanism for image smoothing, " Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 111, 2008, 155–169.

Conference Presentations

1.     A. Goshtasby, A. Jain, and W. Enslin, "Automatic Digital Image Registration," Proc. 8th Int. Sym. Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data, 1982, pp. 347-352.

2.     A. Goshtasby and C. Page, "A Multiple Image Segmentation Technique with Subpixel Accuracy," Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1983, pp. 157-158.

3.     A. Goshtasby and C. Page, "Measurement of Disparity in Stereo Depth Perception," 1983 Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1-6.

4.     A. Goshtasby and W. Enslin, "Registration of Rotated Images by Invariant Moments," Proc. 17th Int. Sym. Remote Sensing of Environment, 1983, pp. 1033-1042.

5.     A. Goshtasby, "A Refined Technique for Stereo Depth Perception," Proc. IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Computer Vision, 1984, pp. 125-129.

6.     A. Goshtasby and C. Page, "Image Matching by a Probabilistic Relaxation Labeling Process," Proc. 7th Int. Joint Conf. Pattern Recognition, 1984, pp. 307-309.

7.     A. Goshtasby, "Use of Finite State Machines is Segmentation of Radiograph Images," Proc. SPIE, 28th Int. Sym. on Optics and Electro-Optics, 1984, pp. 141-148.

8.     A. Goshtasby, "Multiple-Scale Segmentation and Representation of Solid Plane Shapes," IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1986, pp. 351-356.

9.     A. Goshtasby, "Interpolation to Large Data Sets Using Bezier Curves and Surfaces," 35th SIAM Conference on Applied Geometry, 1987, p. A14.

10.  A. Goshtasby, "Geometric Correction of Satellite Images Using Composite Transformation Functions," Proc. Twenty First Int. Sym. Remote Sensing of Environment, October 1987, pp. 825-834.

11.  A. Goshtasby, "Stereo Correspondence by Selective Search," Proc. Japan Computer Vision Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, July 1989, pp. 1-8.

12.  A. Goshtasby and D. Schonfeld, "Signal Representation Based on a Gaussian Decomposition," Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, March 20-22, 1991, pp. 613-618.

13.  A. Goshtasby, "Image Processing Techniques in Visualization: A Tutorial," Visualization '91, San Diego, California, Oct. 21-25, 1991.

14.  A. Goshtasby, "Gaussian-Blending Curves, Surfaces, and Volumes," Second SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Tempe, Arizona, Nov. 4-8, 1991, pp. A33-34.

15.  A. Goshtasby and W. Gruver, "Design of a Single-Lens Stereo Camera System," Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, July 16-18, 1992, pp. II.69-76.

16.  A. Goshtasby, "Surface Reconstruction from Scattered Measurements," Curves and Surfaces in Computer Vision and Graphics III, Boston, MA, Nov. 15-20, 1992, pp. 247-256.

17.  A. Goshtasby and E. H. Ko, "Geometric Modeling with Rational Gaussian Curves and Surfaces," Third SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Tempe, Arizona, Nov. 1-5, 1993. p. A11.

18.  A. Goshtasby, "Reconstruction of Cylindrical Objects in Tomographic Images," IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 4-6, 1993, p. 150.

19.  A. Goshtasby and F. Quek, "Using Gaussians in Image Filtering and Data Approximation," IMACS World Congress, Atlanta, GA, July 4-8, 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 193-195.

20.  W. Krieger and A. Goshtasby, "Fitting Parametric Curves to Dense and Noisy Data," 4th SIAM Conf. Geometric Design, Nashville, TN, Nov. 6-9, 1995.

21.  A. Goshtasby and D. A. Turner, "Fusion of Short-Axis and Long-Axis Cardiac MR Images," IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, San Francisco, June 21-22, 1996, 202-211.

22.  M. Satter and A. Goshtasby, "Registration of Deformed Images," Image Registration Workshop, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, Nov. 20-21, 1997, 221-229.

23.  A. Goshtasby, "Representing Cuts in Elastic Surfaces and Volumes," 5th SIAM COnf. Geometric Design,} Nashville, TN, Nov. 3-6, 1997.

24.  J. Cai, A. Goshtasby, and C. Yu, "Detecting Human Faces in Color Images," Int'l Workshop on Multi-Media Database Management Systems, Aug. 5-7, 1998, pp. 124-131.

25.  M. Jackowski, A. Goshtasby, and M. Satter, "Interactive Tools for Image Segmentation," 1999 SPIE Symp. Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, Feb. 20-26, 1999, 1063-1074.

26.  A. Goshtasby, "Fitting Parametric Curves to Dense and Noisy Points," 4th Int'l Conf. on Curves and Surfaces, Saint-Malo, France, July 1-7, 1999.

27.  A. Goshtasby, R. Szeliski, G. Wolberg, "2-D and 3-D Image Registration and Image Warping: A Tutorial," SIGGRAPH'99, Los Angeles, CA, August 8, 1999.

28.  L. Ding, T. Kularatna, A. Goshtasby, and M. Satter, "Volumetric image registration by template matching," Medical Imaging 2000, 12-17 Feb. 2000, San Diego, CA, 1235-1246.

29.  M. Jackowski, A. Goshtasby, and M. Satter, "Representing 3-D regions with rational Gaussian surfaces," Medical Imaging 2000, 12-17 Feb. 2000, San Diego, CA, 235-245.

30.  A. Goshtasby, "Approximating digital shapes by parametric surfaces," 5th Int'l Conf. Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces, Oslo, Norway, June 29-July 4, 2000.

31.  Y. Li, A. Goshtasby, and O. Garcia, "Detecting and tracking human faces in videos," Int'l Conf. Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 3-7, 2000, pp. 807-810.

32.  A. Goshtasby, A. Rockwood, and D. Terzopoulos, "A primer on shapes: Curves and surfaces," SIGGRAPH Tutorial, 2001.

33.  R. Beichel, S. Mitchell, E. Sorantin, F. Leberl, A. Goshtasby, and M. Sonka, "Shape- and appearance-based segmentation of volumetric medical images," Int'l Conf. Image Processing, 2001, II. 589-592.

34.  L. Ding and A. Goshtasby, "Registration of multimodal brain images with the rigidity constraint," IEEE Int'l Sym. Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2001, pp. 217--222.

35.  A. Goshtasby and M. Satter, "User-assisted segmentation of tomographic images," Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), Paris, France, June 26-28, 2002.

36.  A. Goshtasby, "Control-line curves," Fifth Int'l Conf. Curves and Surfaces, St. Malo, France, June 27 - July 3, 2002.

37.  A. Goshtasby, "A weighted linear method for approximation of irregularly spaced data," SIAM Conf. Geometric Modeling and Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2003.

38.  A. Goshtasby, "Parametric curves and surface with tangent control," SIAM Conf. Geometric Modeling and Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2003.

39.  L. Zagorchev and A. Goshtasby, "A mechanism for range image integration without image registration," 5th Int'l Conf. 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM2005), June 13-16, 2005, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, pp. 126-133.

40.  M. Jackowski and A. Goshtasby, "A computer-aided design system for revision of segmentation errors, " Proc. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 2, Palm Springs, CA, Oct. 2005, pp. 717-724.

41.  A. Goshtasby, "Approximation to scattered lines," SIAM Conf. Geometric Design and Computing, Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 31 Nov. 3, 2005.

42.  L. Zagorchev, A. Goshtasby, and M. Satter, "Flow visualization for qualitative assessment of brain shift," Medical Imaging 2006: VIsualization, Image Guided Procedures, and Displays, vol. 6141, San Diego, 2006.

43.  A. Goshtasby, "Fusion of multifocus images to maximize image information," Defense and Security SYmposium, 17-21 April 2006, Orlando, Florida, 2006.

  1. A. Goshtasby, Surface approximation to scattered lines, Int’l CAD Conf., Honolulu, HI, June 24–29, 2007.

Conference Abstracts

1.       A. Goshtasby, "Interpolation to Large Data Sets Using Bezier Curves and Surfaces," 35th SIAM Conference on Applied Geometry, 1987, p. A14.

2.       A. Goshtasby, "Gaussian-Blending Curves, Surfaces, and Volumes," Second SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Tempe, Arizona, Nov. 4-8, 1991, pp. A33-34.

3.       A. Goshtasby and E. H. Ko, "Geometric Modeling with Rational Gaussian Curves and Surfaces," Third SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Tempe, Arizona, Nov. 1-5, 1993. p. A11.

4.       A. Goshtasby, "Reconstruction of Cylindrical Objects in Tomographic Images," IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 4-6, 1993, p. 150.

5.       W. Krieger and A. Goshtasby, "Fitting Parametric Curves to Dense and Noisy Data," 4th SIAM Conf. Geometric Design, Nashville, TN, Nov. 6-9, 1995.

6.       A. Goshtasby, "Representing Cuts in Elastic Surfaces and Volumes," 5th SIAM Conf. Geometric Design, Nashville, TN, Nov. 3-6, 1997.

7.       A. Goshtasby, "Fitting Parametric Curves to Dense and Noisy Points," 4th Int'l Conf. on Curves and Surfaces, Saint-Malo, France, July 1-7, 1999.

8.       A. Goshtasby, "Approximating digital shapes by parametric surfaces," 5th Int'l Conf. Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces, Oslo, Norway, June 29-July 4, 2000.

9.       A. Goshtasby, "Control-line curves," Fifth Int'l Conf. Curves and Surfaces, St. Malo, France, June 27 - July 3, 2002.

10.    A. Goshtasby, "A weighted linear method for approximation of irregularly spaced data," SIAM Conf. Geometric Modeling and Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2003.

11.    A. Goshtasby, "Parametric curves and surface with tangent control," SIAM Conf. Geometric Modeling and Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2003.

12.    A. Goshtasby, "Approximation to scattered lines," SIAM Conf. Geometric Design and Computing, Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 31 Nov. 3, 2005.

Tutorials and Workshops

1.       A. Goshtasby, "Image Processing Techniques in Visualization: A Tutorial," Visualization '91, San Diego, California, Oct. 21-25, 1991.

2.       A. Goshtasby, R. Szeliski, G. Wolberg, "2-D and 3-D Image Registration and Image Warping: A Tutorial," SIGGRAPH'99, Los Angeles, CA, August 8, 1999.

3.       A. Goshtasby, A. Rockwood, and D. Terzopoulos, "A Primer on Shapes: Curves and surfaces," SIGGRAPH Tutorial, 2001.

4.       A. Goshtasby, G. Stockman, and K. Rohr, "2-D and 3-D Image Registration", CVPR 2004, Washington, DC.

5.       A. Goshtasby and S. Nikolov, "Image Registration and Fusion, " CVPR 2007, Minneapolis, MN.

6.       A. Goshtasby, H. Abdelmunim, G. Carneiro, R. D. Eastman, A. Farag, J. Flusser, A. Leow, F. Sroubek, B. Vemuri, and B. Zitova, "Survey and Recent Advances in Image Registration and Fusion, " CVPR 2008, Anchorage Alaska.

Book

         A. Ardeshir Goshtasby, 2-D and 3-D Image Registration,Wiley Press, April. 2005.

Book Chapters

1.     A. Goshtasby, "Pattern Recognition," Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, A. Kent and J. G. Williams (eds.), Marcel Dekker Publishing, New York, 1990, pp. 289-300.

2.     A. Goshtasby, "Fitting Parametric Curves to Dense and Noisy Points," Curve and Surface Fitting, A. Cohen, C. Rabut, and L. Schumaker (eds.), Vanderbilt University Press, 2000, pp. 227-236.

3.     A. Goshtasby, "Approximating digital shapes by parametric surface," Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces, T. Lyche and L. L. Schumaker (eds.), Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 163-172.

4.     A. Goshtasby, "A weighted linear method for approximation of irregularly spaced data," Geometric Modeling and Computing, M. M. Lucian and M. Neamtu (eds.), Nashboro Press, Brentwood, TN., 2004, 285-294.

5.     M. Jackowski and A. Goshtasby, "A computer-aided design system for segmentation of volumetric images," in Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis, Volume III: Registration Models, J. S. Suri, D. L. Wilson, and S. Laxminarayan, Kluwer Academic, New York, 2005, pp. 251-272.