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A Multi-Modal Deep Learning Approach to the Early Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion to Alzheimer's Disease (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Rana, S. S., Ma, X., Pang, W., & Wolverson, E. (2020). A Multi-Modal Deep Learning Approach to the Early Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion to Alzheimer's Disease. In 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) (9-18). https://doi.org/10.1109/BDCAT50828.2020.00013

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been described as the intermediary stage before Alzheimer's Disease - many people however remain stable or even demonstrate improvement in cognition. Early detection of progressive MCI (pMCI) therefore can be utili... Read More about A Multi-Modal Deep Learning Approach to the Early Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion to Alzheimer's Disease.

GANS-based data augmentation for citrus disease severity detection using deep learning (2020)
Journal Article
Zeng, Q., Ma, X., Cheng, B., Zhou, E., & Pang, W. (2020). GANS-based data augmentation for citrus disease severity detection using deep learning. IEEE Access, 8, 172882-172891. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025196

Recently, many Deep Learning models have been employed to classify different kinds of plant diseases, but very little work has been done for disease severity detection. However, it is more important to master the severities of plant diseases accurate... Read More about GANS-based data augmentation for citrus disease severity detection using deep learning.

Skeleton Marching-based Parallel Vascular Geometry Reconstruction Using Implicit Functions (2019)
Journal Article
Qi, Q., Li, Q. D., Cheng, Y., & Hong, Q. Q. (2020). Skeleton Marching-based Parallel Vascular Geometry Reconstruction Using Implicit Functions. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 17(1), 30-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-019-1189-4

Fast high-precision patient-specific vascular tissue and geometric structure reconstruction is an essential task for vascular tissue engineering and computer-aided minimally invasive vascular disease diagnosis and surgery. In this paper, we present a... Read More about Skeleton Marching-based Parallel Vascular Geometry Reconstruction Using Implicit Functions.

High precision implicit modeling for patient-specific coronary arteries (2019)
Journal Article
Hong, Q., Li, Q., Wang, B., Liu, K., & Qi, Q. (2019). High precision implicit modeling for patient-specific coronary arteries. IEEE Access, 7, 72020-72029. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2920113

High precision geometric reconstruction of patient-specific coronary arteries plays a crucial role in visual diagnosis, treatment decision-making, and the evaluation of the therapeutic effect of interventions in coronary artery diseases. It is also a... Read More about High precision implicit modeling for patient-specific coronary arteries.

A 3D cephalometric protocol for the accurate quantification of the craniofacial symmetry and facial growth (2019)
Journal Article
Pinheiro, M., Ma, X., Fagan, M. J., McIntyre, G. T., Lin, P., Sivamurthy, G., & Mossey, P. A. (2019). A 3D cephalometric protocol for the accurate quantification of the craniofacial symmetry and facial growth. Journal of Biological Engineering, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-019-0171-6

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Cephalometric analysis is used to evaluate facial growth, to study the anatomical relationships within the face. Cephalometric assessment is based on 2D radiographic images, either the sagittal or coronal planes and... Read More about A 3D cephalometric protocol for the accurate quantification of the craniofacial symmetry and facial growth.

Surface fitting for quasi scattered data from coordinate measuring systems (2018)
Journal Article
Mao, Q., Liu, S., Wang, S., & Ma, X. (2018). Surface fitting for quasi scattered data from coordinate measuring systems. Sensors, 18(1), 214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18010214

Non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) surface fitting from data points is wildly used in the fields of computer aided design (CAD), medical imaging, cultural relic representation and object-shape detection. Usually, the measured data acquired from co... Read More about Surface fitting for quasi scattered data from coordinate measuring systems.

T-spline based unifying registration procedure for free-form surface workpieces in intelligent CMM (2017)
Journal Article
Han, Z., Wang, Y., Ma, X., Liu, S., Zhang, X., & Zhang, G. (2017). T-spline based unifying registration procedure for free-form surface workpieces in intelligent CMM. Applied Sciences, 7(10), 1092. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7101092

With the development of the modern manufacturing industry, the free-form surface is widely used in various fields, and the automatic detection of a free-form surface is an important function of future intelligent three-coordinate measuring machines (... Read More about T-spline based unifying registration procedure for free-form surface workpieces in intelligent CMM.

Digital three-dimensional automation of the modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system for patients with cleft lip and palate (2017)
Journal Article
Ma, X., Martin, C., McIntyre, G., Lin, P., & Mossey, P. (2017). Digital three-dimensional automation of the modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system for patients with cleft lip and palate. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 54(4), 481-486. https://doi.org/10.1597/15-340

© Copyright 2017 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Objective: The modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system assesses maxillary arch constriction and surgical outcomes in cleft lip and palate. This project automates modified Huddart a... Read More about Digital three-dimensional automation of the modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system for patients with cleft lip and palate.

The validity and reliability of an automated method of scoring dental arch relationships in unilateral cleft lip and palate using the modified Huddart-Bodenham scoring system (2016)
Journal Article
Martin, C. B., Ma, X., McIntyre, G. T., Wang, W., Lin, P., Chalmers, E. V., & Mossey, P. A. (2016). The validity and reliability of an automated method of scoring dental arch relationships in unilateral cleft lip and palate using the modified Huddart-Bodenham scoring system. European Journal of Orthodontics, 38(4), 353-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejo/cjw031

Objective: To evaluate an automated software tool for the assessment of dental arch relationships using the modified Huddart and Bodenham index. Design: Cohort of 43 models of subjects aged 9-21 with UCLP and the ten GOSLON reference models sets. Met... Read More about The validity and reliability of an automated method of scoring dental arch relationships in unilateral cleft lip and palate using the modified Huddart-Bodenham scoring system.

Randomised controlled trial of video clips and interactive games to improve vision in children with amblyopia using the I-BiT system (2016)
Journal Article
Herbison, N., Mackeith, D., Vivian, A., Purdy, J., Fakis, A., Ash, I. M., …Foss, A. J. (2016). Randomised controlled trial of video clips and interactive games to improve vision in children with amblyopia using the I-BiT system. British journal of ophthalmology, 100(11), 1511-1516. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2015-307798

Background Traditional treatment of amblyopia involves either wearing a patch or atropine penalisation of the better eye. A new treatment is being developed on the basis of virtual reality technology allowing either DVD footage or computer games whic... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of video clips and interactive games to improve vision in children with amblyopia using the I-BiT system.

Multilevel refinable triangular PSP-splines (Tri-PSPS) (2015)
Journal Article
Li, Q., & Tian, J. (2015). Multilevel refinable triangular PSP-splines (Tri-PSPS). Computers & mathematics with applications, 70(8), 1781-1798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2015.07.017

A multi-level spline technique known as partial shape preserving splines (PSPS) (Li and Tian, 2011) has recently been developed for the design of piecewise polynomial freeform geometric surfaces, where the basis functions of the PSPS can be directly... Read More about Multilevel refinable triangular PSP-splines (Tri-PSPS).

3D vasculature segmentation using localized hybrid level-set method (2014)
Journal Article
Hong, Q., Li, Q., Wang, B., Li, Y., Yao, J., Liu, K., & Wu, Q. (2014). 3D vasculature segmentation using localized hybrid level-set method. BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 13(1), 169. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-925X-13-169

Background: Intensity inhomogeneity occurs in many medical images, especially in vessel images. Overcoming the difficulty due to image inhomogeneity is crucial for the segmentation of vessel image. Methods: This paper proposes a localized hybrid leve... Read More about 3D vasculature segmentation using localized hybrid level-set method.

Subdivision surface fitting to a dense mesh using ridges and umbilics (2014)
Journal Article
Ma, X., Keates, S., Jiang, Y., & Kosinka, J. (2015). Subdivision surface fitting to a dense mesh using ridges and umbilics. Computer aided geometric design, 32(January), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cagd.2014.10.001

Fitting a sparse surface to approximate vast dense data is of interest for many applications: reverse engineering, recognition and compression, etc. The present work provides an approach to fit a Loop subdivision surface to a dense triangular mesh of... Read More about Subdivision surface fitting to a dense mesh using ridges and umbilics.

Desktop-based computer-assisted orthopedic training system for spinal surgery (2014)
Journal Article
Rambani, R., Ward, J., & Viant, W. (2014). Desktop-based computer-assisted orthopedic training system for spinal surgery. Journal of Surgical Education, 71(6), 805-809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2014.04.012

Background Simulation and surgical training has moved on since its inception during the end of the last century. The trainees are getting more exposed to computers and laboratory training in different subspecialties. More needs to be done in orthoped... Read More about Desktop-based computer-assisted orthopedic training system for spinal surgery.