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1.Name:

Xiaochuan Pan

 

Primary Appointment:

Radiology

 

Secondary appointments:

Committee on Medical Physics

 

2.Proposed rank:

PROFESSOR

 

3.Proposed track:

RESEARCH SCHOLAR (TENURE)

 

LAY SUMMARY:

Research:  Dr. PanÕs research focuses on improving methods of imaging, based on theoretical developments, with applications in biomedical imaging.  His research focuses on optimizing images obtained from numerous imaging techniques, including x-ray computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine techniques (SPECT AND PET imaging) and electron resonance imaging (EPRI). The development of faster and faster acquisition methods for these techniques has resulted in the need for new, advanced processing techniques to handle the speed with which data is presented, and to avoid artifacts being created that mar the resultant images.  His research has focused on general theories to create new ways to organize the data for image processing to create clearer, more accurate images without artifacts that are inherent in these fast, new imaging techniques.  Another key area of research that ties in to these areas of optimizing detail and accuracy of created images is applying images to radiation therapy to allow for more accurate assessment and delivery of these treatments.

 

Education:  Dr. PanÕs educational role includes (1) organizing and teaching didactic, laboratory, and research courses for the Ph.D. graduate students in the Committee on Medical Physics (CMP), (2) mentoring and supervising the Ph.D. graduate students in CMP and post-doctoral fellows, (3) giving lectures to undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows at The University of Chicago and other universities, and (4) delivering conference presentations and invited lectures at various universities, conferences, and industrial companies. He currently supervises two Ph.D. students and several post-doctoral/research fellows, was the principal adviser of two former Ph. D. students and the co-principal advisor of an additional Ph.D. student, and has been a member of the dissertation committees of 10 additional Ph.D. students. His graduate students and research fellows have been productive in their research.  Each of them had published a number (ranging from 2 to 13) of peer-reviewed journal papers when they were under his supervision.  All of his students have received numerous awards, including the IEEE NPSS Graduate Scholarship Award and the first-prize of the Student Paper Competition Award at the 2000 World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.   Four former students and post-doctoral fellow, whom he has supervised or/and taught, have become faculty members. They are also successful in establishing their own independent research programs and in seeking competitive peer-reviewed grants to support their research.

 

Administrative:  His administrative role includes (1) serving as a member and chair on committees in the Committee on Medical Physics, including the seminar committee, (2) serving as a member and chair on committees and sessions of various professional international conferences, (3) serving as a member on various study sections, and (4) serving as an associate editor and/or a reviewer for professional journals. In particular, he is serving and have served as a member or an ad hoc member of numerous study sections of NIH, the Biomedical Engineering and Research panel of National Science Foundation, the National Grant Fund Review of The Susan G.  Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and National Science Foundation of China. He has also served as a reviewer for other funding agencies, such as the Naval Research Office, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, and Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He has been a member of the technical committees for and as a session chair for a number of international conferences and served in departmental committees.  He serves as an Associate Editor for Medical Physics and also as a regular reviewer for a number of leading journals in the field.
HONORS

 

1996             The FIRST Award, National Institutes of Health

1997             The Kurt Rossmann Teaching Award, Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago

2000             The Early Achievement Award, IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society

2003             The Cum Laude Poster Award, SPIEÕs International Symposium on Medical Imaging

2003             The K.-C. Wang Award, The Academy of Sciences of China

2005             Fellow of International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

As listed below, I am serving and have served as a member or an ad hoc member of numerous study sections of NIH, the Biomedical Engineering and Research panel of National Science Foundation, the National Grant Fund Review of The Susan G.  Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and National Science Foundation of China. I have also served as a reviewer for other funding agencies, such as the Naval Research Office, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, and Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. I have been a member of the technical committees for and as a session chair for a number of international conferences and served in departmental committees.  I am serving as an Associate Editor for Medical Physics and also as a regular reviewer for a number of leading journals in the field. I also reviewed abstracts and short papers for various international conferences on imaging sciences and their biomedical applications. I have been requested by numerous universities such as Harvard University, Duke University, Northwestern University, University of Washington, and University of Pennsylvania to evaluate their cases of faculty appointment and promotion.

 

 

Study-section Member and Grant Reviewer

 

1999-present Member, Study Section, National Grant Fund Review, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

2001                Member, Biomedical Engineering (RAPD IIA Panel B), National Science Foundation

2001                Member, Study Section (ZRG1 SRB(33)), National Institutes of Health

2001-2002       Member, Study Section (ZRG1 SSS-7(10), ZRG1 SSS-7(11)), National Institutes             of Health

2001-2002       Reviewer, Grant Applications, Office of Naval Research of United States

2001-2003       Ad hoc Member, Study Section (DMG), National Institutes of Health

2001-2003       Member, Study Section (SSS-7(10), SSS-7(11)), National Institutes of Health

2003                Ad hoc Member, Study Section (ZRG-DMG (01)), National Institutes of Health

2003                Member, Study Section (ZRG1 SSSX 50R), National Institutes of Health

2003                Reviewer, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

2003                Reviewer, US Army Medical Research and Material Command

2003-2005       Member, Study Section (ZRG-SRB(50)) on Bioengineering Research Partnership, National Institutes of Health

2004-2005       Member, Study Section Member, National Science Foundation of China

2005                Reviewer, US Department of State

 
 
Professional and International Committees

 

1998-present Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference

1998                Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society

1999                Member, Symposium Committee, Symposium on Future Directions in Nuclear Medicine Physics and Engineering

2001-2004       Member, International Program Committee, International Conference on Bioengineering, International Association of Science and Technology Development

2001-2005       Member, International Program Committee, International Conference on Image Processing, International Association of Science and Technology Development

2002                Member, International Program Committee, Conference on Applied Simulation and Modeling, International Association of Science and Technology Development

2003                Member, Regional Conference Committee of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

2004-2008       Member, Council of International Society on Bio-electromagnetism

2004                Member, Scientific Program Committee, Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality

2005                Member, International Program Committee, International Conference on Tele-health, International Association of Science and Technology Development

2005                Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Medical Imaging and Computing

2005                Member, Scientific Program Committee, International Meeting on 3D Image Reconstruction in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology

2006                Member, Scientific Program Committee, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

 

 

International Conference Session Chair

 

1997    Session Chair, Ultrasound Imaging, International Conference, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

1998/2001/2003          Session Chair, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference

2002-2004       Session Chair, Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

2003    Session Chair, International Meeting on 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

2003    Session Chair, International Meeting on 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

2004    Co-chair, Neural Imaging and Sensing, International Conference of EMBS

2005    Symposium Chair, Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine

2005    Track Chair, Image Processing, Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing Theme, International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

 

 

 

Associate Editor and Reviewer for Journals

 

 

1993-present  Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

1994-present  Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

1997                Reviewer, Annals of Statistics

1997-present  Reviewer, Physics in Medicine and Biology

1998-present  Reviewer, Medical Physics

1999                Reviewer, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

1999                Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

1999                Reviewer, International Journal of Cardiac Imaging

1999-2001       Reviewer, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

1999-present  Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

1999-present  Reviewer, Journal of Applied Physics

1999-present  Reviewer, Journal of Optical Society of America

1999-present  Reviewer, Optical Engineering

2000                Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

2000                Reviewer, IEICE Transactions on Electronics

2000                Reviewer, Academic Radiology

2000                Reviewer, IEE Proc. Visions, Image, and Signal Processing

2000-2001       Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency           Control

2001                Reviewer, Control and Intelligent Systems

2001                Reviewer, Journal of Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

2001                Reviewer, Medical Image Analysis

2001-present  Reviewer, Inverse Problems

2002-present  Associate Editor, Medical Physics

2002                Reviewer, Optics Letters

2002-present  Reviewer, Journal of Physics D

2003                Reviewer, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

2003                Reviewer, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

2004                Reviewer, J. Neural Eng.

2004                Reviewer, J. Electronic Imaging

2005                Reviewer, J. of Tsinghua Sciences and Technology

2005                Reviewer, J. App. Clinic. Med. Phys.

2005                Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing Letter

 

 

Reviewer for International Conferences and Book Proposals

 

1994-present  Reviewer, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference

1997-2000       Reviewer, International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

1998-1999       Reviewer, International Conference on Image Processing

1998-present  Reviewer, Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine

1999                Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

1999-present  Reviewer, SPIE's International Symposium on Medical Imaging

2000                Reviewer, CRC Press (Book proposal)

2000                Reviewer, International Conference on Pattern Recognition

2001                Reviewer, International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Imaging Processing

2001                Reviewer, John Wiley and Sons (Book proposal)

2002                Reviewer, Biomedical Imaging Research Opportunities Workshop

2002                Reviewer, Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America

2002                Reviewer, Biomedical Imaging Research Opportunities Workshop

2004-2005       Reviewer, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

1997-present  Reviewer, International Symposium on Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in                                       Radiological Sciences and Nuclear Medicine

 

 

4.ABSTRACTS.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

A1. X. Pan and U. Fano: Collision amplitudes shorn of first Born term, Conference of Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, Windsor, Canada, 1989.   

A2. X. Pan: Electron-ion collision by R-matrix with MQDT, Conference of Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, Washington, D. C., 1991.  

A3. X. Pan, C.-T. Chen, and W. H. Wong: An iterative approach for attenuation correction in SPECT, Midwest Workshop on Iterative Image Reconstruction, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1992

A4. X. Pan, J. Liu, C.-T. Chen, and W. H. Wong: A comparison study for photon attenuation compensation in SPECT reconstruction, Association of University Radiologists Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1992.  

A5. X. Pan, J. Liu, C.-T. Chen, and W. H. Wong: A study of iterative methods for photon attenuation correction in SPECT, Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Los Angeles, 1992.  

A6. N. J. Yasillo, J. N. Aarsvold, R. N. Beck, T. A. Block, C.-T. Chen, M. Cooper, S. J. Heimsath, K. L. Matthews, R. A. Mintzer, X. Pan, T. C. Vazquez, and C. Wu: A clinical miniature gamma camera, Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, 1993.

A7. X. Pan, X. Ouyang, C.-T. Chen, and W. H. Wong: Bayesian image reconstruction in SPECT: correction for nonuniform attenuation and spatial resolution, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, Florida, 1993.

A8. N. J. Yasillo, R. A. Mintzer, J. N. Aarsvold, K. L. Matthews, S. J. Heimsath, C. E. Ordonez, X. Pan, C. Wu, T. A. Block, R. N. Beck, C.-T. Chen, M. Cooper: A single-tube miniature gamma camera, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, 1994.  

A9. X. Pan and C. E. Metz: Analysis and evaluation of noise characteristics of a class of exact methods that compensate for the effect of uniform attenuation in 2-D SPECT, Optical Engineering Midwest 95, Chicago, 1995.

A10. C. E. Metz and X. Pan: A class of exact methods of compensating for the effect of uniform attenuation in 2-D SPECT, Optical Engineering Midwest 95, Chicago, 1995.

A11. B. Xu, C.-T. Chen, C.-M. Kao, J. N. Aarsvold, J. Chen, and X. Pan: Multiscale Bayesian image reconstruction in positron emission tomography, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, 1995.

A12. C.-M. Kao, X. Pan, C.-T. Chen, and W. H. Wong: An improved Bayesian approach for positron emission tomography, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, 1995.  

A13. X. Pan, C. E. Ordonez, C. E. Metz, and C.-T. Chen: A class of analytical methods for compensation for attenuation and spatially-variant resolution in 2D SPECT, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, 1995.  

A14. C. E. Metz and X. Pan: ÒProperÓ bionormal ROC curves: theory and maximum-likelihood estimation, the ÒFar WestÓ Image Perception Conference, Philadelphia, 1995.

A15. X. Pan and C. E. Metz: A comparative study of non-iterative methods for SPECT reconstruction, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Los Angeles, 1996.  

A16. X. Pan, P. J. La Riviere, J. Ye, J. Mukherjee, and C.-T. Chen: Efficient sonogram smoothing for dynamic neuro-receptor PET imaging, SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, 1997.  

A17. P. J. La Riviere, X. Pan, B. C. Penney, C.-T. Chen, and R. Reba: Few-angle cardiac SPECT with spline processing: initial results and radial-extent limitations, Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, 1997.

A18. C.-M. Kao, X. Pan, C.-T. Chen, E. Hiller, G. Newmark, and M. J. Lipton: Accurate edge extraction and its application in automatic segmentation of ultrasound images of blood vessels and the heart, Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, 1997.

A19. P. J. La Riviere and X. Pan: Direct spline-based inversion of the three-dimensional Radon transform with application to cardiac SPECT, Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, 1997.

A20. P. J. La Riviere, X. Pan, B. C. Penney, and C.-T. Chen: Improved detectability of malignant lesions in dedicated SPECT scintimammography using effective multi-dimensional smoothing, Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, 1997.

A21. X. Pan and C. E. Metz: A detailed investigation of non-iterative methods for 3D SPECT image reconstruction, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Albuquerque, 1997.

A22. M. Anastasio, M. Kupinski, X. Pan, and C.-T. Chen: Noise properties of reconstructed images in ultrasonic diffraction tomography, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Albuquerque, 1997.

A23. P. J. La Riviere and X. Pan: Direct spline-based inversion of the three-dimensional Radon transform with application to cardiac phantom data, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Albuquerque, 1997.

A24. B. Xu, X. Pan, and C.-T. Chen: An analytical relationship between blurred and ideal sinograms and its implication in 2D SPECT, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Albuquerque, 1997.

A25. C.-M. Kao, X. Pan