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EDUCATION

 
 M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Sep. 2006-Jul. 2007
 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
 Thesis:
 "Cell-Based Image Segmentation for 2D and 2D series ultrasound images"
 Adviser: Dr. Chung-Ming Chen, Insitute of Biomedical Engineering, NTU
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 Note: Awarded excellent thesis from Institute of Information and  Computing Machinery, Taiwan

 B.S. Computer Science and Information Engineering, Sep. 1998-Jul. 2002
 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

 TOEFL (CBT): 263; Listening 27, Structure 24, Reading 28

AWARDS/HORNORS
1. Exellent Master Thesis Award, Institute of Information and  Computing Machinery, Taiwan, 2007

2. Ministry of Education's Scholarship for Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan), 2007
(for Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering/Medical Engineering in USA)
13000 USD tuition stipend and 12000 USD living subsidy per year, two-year offer
(Note: only 12 recipents were awarded in Engineering Dvision)

3. Best poster award, Symposium of Annual Conference of Biomedical Engineering Society, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Decmber 15-16, 2006.

RESEARCH INTEREST

Computer Vision, Image Segmentation, Pattern Recognition, Perceptual Grouping, Medical Image Analysis, Mahcine learning, Statistical Analysis, Biological Vision Mechanism


SKILL

Computer: C/C++, Matlab, Basic, LISP, PHP, DirectX

Language: English, Mandarin (Chinese), Hokkien (Taiwanese)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

 
 Internship, Princeton, NJ, USA, Jul. 2007 - June. 2008
 Siemens Corporate Research
  1. Nonrigid Multimodal Image Registeration (Ultrasound to CT)
  2. Motion Compensation
  3. Fast interpolation using MMX/SSE2 instruction set
 
 Research Assistant, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004 - June 2007
 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University
  1. Develop a Comuter Aided Diagnosis system for Breast Cancer
  2. Develop image segmenation algorithms for 2D and 2D series sonograms
  3. Compose research paper drafts
  4. Compose a grant proposal for National Science Council. Project name: "3D Computer Aided Diagnosis for Sonographic Breast Lesions and Bias  Correction"
  5. Reivew papers, including 2D/3D image segmenation, perceptual grouping, oject tracking

 Private Tutor, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 2005 - June 2006
  1. Teach mathematics, physics, and chemistry for a junior high school student

 Software Engineer/Soldier, Army, Taiwan, Aug. 2002 - Mar. 2004
 34 division, Army, R.O.C.; Operations Simulation Division, Operations and  Doctrine Comittee,  Army General Headquaters
  1. 6 months soldier training in 34 division, Army
  2. 1 year in Army General Headquaters as a software engineer
  3. Develop War Field Managment System for tactic simulation

 Part Time Student, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 2001 - June 2002
 Computer and Information Networking center, National Taiwan University
  1. Develop CEIBA (Collaborative Enhanced Instruction by Asynchromous Learing) system
  2. Tools: PHP, MySQL

PROJECT EXPERIENCE


 Nonrigid Registration for Ultrasound to CT images (Current Project)
 Jul. 21, 2007 - Present
 Imaging & Visualization Department, Siemens Corporate Research, NJ, USA
  1. Breathing Motion Compensation for US to CT registration
  2. Accelerate interpolation by using Intel MMX/SSE2 instruction sets
  3. Tools: Visual C++ 2005, Matlab
  4. Supervisor: Dr. Wolfgang Wein 
 3D Computer Aided Diagnosis for Sonographic Breast Lesions and Bias  Correction
 Grant No.: NSC 95-2221-E-002-023-MY3
 Aug. 1, 2006 - July. 10, 2007; National Science Council Project
 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, R.O.C.
  1. Stochastically modeling the spatial-temporal for 2D series sonograms using Kalman filter
  2. Paper reivew for the topics of object tracking like Kalman filter, particle filter
  3. Tools: Borland C++
  4. Supervisor: Dr. Chung-Ming Chen
 The CAD System for the Sonographic Breast Lesions
 Grant No.: NSC 93-2622-E002-004 and NSC 94-2622-E002-002
 June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2006; National Science Council Project
 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, R.O.C.
  1. Develop "Cell Competition Algorithm" for delineating object of interest in 2D ultrasound images
  2. Develop MAP framework for 2D series segmentation
  3. Design user interface for computer aided diagnosis system
  4. Code documentation
  5. Tools: Borland C++
  6. Supervisor: Dr. Chung-Ming Chen
 War Field Managment System
 Operations Simulation Division, Operations and  Doctrine Comittee, Army  General Headquaters, R.O.C.
  1. Design system message protocol (Direct Play, Direct X)
  2. Write the interface for connecting database (MySQL, Access)
  3. Code documentation
  4. Tools: Microsoft .Net Basic, MySQL, Direct X

ACADEMIC SERVICE


Reviewer
  1.  Pattern Recognition

PUBLICATION


  Books and Book Chapters
  1. J. Z. Cheng, Y. H. Chou, C. M. Chen. “Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Lesions on Sonograms: Automatic Boundary Delineation and Nearly Setting-Independent Morphological Features,” Invited Chapter 22, Performance Evaluation in Breast Imaging, Tumor Detection and Analysis, edited by E.Y.K. Ng, R. Acharya U, and J.S. Suri, American Scientific Publishers, 2009. 

Journals
  1. J. Z. Cheng, Y. H. Chou, C. S. Huang, Y. C. Chang, C. M. Tiu, K. W. Chen, C. M. Chen. “Computer-Aided Diagnosis with Automatic Boundary Delineation for Breast Lesions on sonogram: Effect of Boundary Quality on Performance,” accepted for  Radiology, 2009. (SCI; 2008 Impact Factor 5.996, 5-Year Impact Factor 6.634)
  2. J. Z. Cheng, E. B. Cole, E. D. Pisano, D. Shen. “Detection of Arterial Calcification in Mammograms by Random Walks.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5635, pp. 713-724, 2009.
  3. J. Z. Cheng, C. M. Chen, Y. H. Chou, C. S. K. Chen, C. M. Tiu, K. W. Chen. “Cell-based Two-region Competition Algorithm with A MAP Framework for Boundary Delineation of A Series of 2D Ultrasound Images,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 33(10): pp. 1640-1650, 2007.
  4. C. M. Chen, Y. H. Chou, C. S. K. Chen, J. Z. Cheng, Y. F. Ou, F. C. Yeh, K. W. Chen. "Cell Competition Algorithm: A New Segmentation Algorithm for Multiple Objects with Irregular Boundaries in Ultrasound Images," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 31(12): pp. 1647-1664, 2005. (SCI; 2005 Impact Factor 2.221). (I’m the first student in the author list)
  5. J. Z. Cheng, C. M. Chen. “Cell-Based Image Segmentation for 2D and 2D Series Ultrasound Images”, Institute of Information & Computing Machinery, 11(2): pp. 63-77, 2008. (資訊學會會刊)
 
 Conferences
  1. J. Z. Cheng, E. B. Cole, E. D. Pisano, D. Shen. “Detection of Arterial Calcification in Mammograms by Random Walks.” Information Processing in Medical Imaging 2009, Williamsburgh, VA, July 5-10, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 17%; Oral presentation).
  2. F. Shi, P. T. Yap, Y. Fan, J. Z. Cheng, L. Wald, G. Gerig, W. Lin, D. Shen. “Cortical Enhanced Tissue Segmentation of Neonatal Brain MR Images Acquired by a Dedicated Phased Array Coil”, CVPR’09 workshop MMBIA, Miami Beach, Florida, June 20th, 2009.
  3. W. Wein, J. Z. Cheng, A. Khamene. “Ultrasound-based respiratory motion tracking in the abdomen, “ MICCAI 2008 workshop: IGSTI’08. (Accepted)
  4. S. P. Lee, J. Z. Cheng, C. M. Chen, I. W. Y. Tseng. "An automatic segmentation approach boundary delineation of corpus callosum based on cell competition," IEEE EMBC'08, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 20-24, 2008. oral presentation.
  5. J. Z. Cheng, K. W. Chen, Y. H. Chou, C. M. Chen. "Cell-based image partion and edge grouping: A nearly automatic ultrasound image segmentation algorithm for breast cancer computer aided diagnosis," SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 16-21, 2008, poster presentation. (Accepted)
  6. J. Z. Cheng, C. M. Chen, Y. H. Chou. "Cell-based two-region competition algorithm with a MAP framework for boundary delineation of a series of 2D ultrasound images," Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 15-16 2006, poster presentation. (Best poster award)
  7. J. Z. Cheng, C. Y. Lee, Y. H. Chou, C. M. Chen. “Regularized cell competition algorithm for boundary delineation in a series of 2D sonograms,” EMBC'05- The 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, November 20-25 2005, oral presentation.
  8. Y. F. Ou, J. Z. Cheng, C. M. Chen. "A septa preserving cell competition algorithm for boundary delineation of sonographic breast lesions," Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 17-18 2004, poster presentation.
 Conference Abstracts
  1. F. Shi, Y. Fang, J.  Z. Cheng, L. L. Wald, G. Gerig, W. Lin, D. Shen. “Hybrid Atlas based Tissue Segmentation for Neonatal Brain MRI Acquired Using a Dedicated Phased Array Coil.” International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 17th Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2009 Hawaii, April 18-24, 2009, poster presentation
  2. J. Z. Cheng, Y. H. Chou, C. M. Chen. “A cell-based graph-traversing approach for boundary detection of sonographic breast lesions,” The 11'th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Seoul, South Korea, May 28-June 1 2006, poster presentation.
  3. C. M. Chen, J. Z. Cheng, K. W. Chen. “A CAD system for sonographic Breast lesions with a nearly automatic segmentation algorithm,” Forum on Emerging Biomedical Technologies: 2006 International workshop on CAD, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 20-21, 2006.
  Patents
  1. C. M. Chen, J. Z. Cheng. “Shape-detecting Method and System thereof for A Image of A Tumor,” Taiwan (R. O. C.) Patent, pending.

  Technical Reports
  1. C. M. Chen, J. Z. Cheng, Y. H. Chou. “ACCOMP— Augmented Cell Competition Algorithm for Delineating Boundaries of Objects of Interested in Sonography,” Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University.

   Working Papers
  1. [To be updated]